book about dress TRIMMINGS

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NEW PUBLICATION 

M-CB009 Clark’s O.N.T – J. & P. Coats – Trimmings – Book No. S-23
Stapled softcover, 32 pages, dated 1946. Trimmings are the favorite means of adding interest and becomingness to clothes, says the introduction, followed by an alphabetical list of articles about trimming techniques. Appliqué, Arrowheads, Bands, Belts, Bows, Braid, Buttons, Circular Frills, Cording, Couching, Embroidery, Fabric Flowers, Fagoting, Fringe, Frogs, Hemstitching, Lace, Picot Edging, Pom Poms, Quilting, Ribbon, Rick Rack, Sequins, Smocking, Stitching, Tassels, and Tubing.
Scans donated and edited by Clara Bruning.

In the post-war years, when textile still was a scarce resource, this must have been a welcome book about coat and dress trimmings, with the limited items that would have been at hand in a household that didn’t belong to the 1% or even the 10%. Some items such as sequins would not have been suitable for childrens clothes and lace collars would have caused raised eyebrows on men’s clothes, so this is focused on clothing for women. 

While our modern clothes are decidedly different from those of 80 years ago, we see embroidered T-shirts and jeans with sequins in the shops, so if you try this out don’t think “old-fashioned” but “coming into fashion again” and enjoy the results. And of course, as in the past, it’ll allow clothing a second life.