This has been some time in the making but it’s in the final push to finish it. The film maker has made an appeal for donations to help her finish. If you liked the trailer and want to see the rest of it completed, you can go here to make a donation. I did. MEN OF THE CLOTH IndieGoGo Video from Vicki Vasilopoulos on Vimeo.
Month: August 2011
The internet has a way of expanding the English language and ever since discovering the tailored clothing forums I have also encountered a term that I had never heard used outside of the internet, and that was “quarters”. As in, a way of describing the shape of the front of the coat. Whereas in tailoring circles, or the ones I have always frequented, anyway, have generally referred to a “straight front” or a “cutaway front”,Read More
A few book reviews to do. The first will appeal only to the super-geeks like myself. Published in 1916, The Men’s Factory-Made Clothing Industry is a report on the cost of producing men’s clothing produced by the U.S. Department of Commerce, and can be found on Google Books. Buried within a lot of dry financial statistics is an interesting history of ready-to-wear clothing in the U.S., as well as some very interesting descriptions of theRead More
Nothing to do with clothing for once. MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan recently went on an emotional rant worthy of Keith Olberman and the avalanche of response prompted a follow-up in which he expresses the collective rage of the American people toward Washington and the economy. He encourages the people to take to Twitter and Facebook and the blogosphere to express the fact that we are Mad as Hell and that we demand change. While I agreeRead More