Word: fabrics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also darn socks, embroider blouses and monogram pockets as well as baste, hem and stitch once "impossible" materials like leather and stretchable knits. In addition to all this, Singer's expensive Touch & Sew model ($439.95) has solid-state speed control enabling it to breeze through varying thicknesses of fabric without being reset. Today, however, many inexpensive machines (about $60) offer zigzag, hemming and stretch stitches plus an extra foot for buttonholes. Thus most home seamstresses buy the cheaper models and spend their money on fabrics, which can be expensive...
...Home sewing used to be the dumping ground for the fabric industry," says Carol Bird, president of Off the Bolt, a chain of fabric shops in Los Angeles. "Now all that has changed. If a woman sees a dress she likes in a store, she can come into a fabric shop, ask for the identical fabric and get it." Five years ago, there were 2,300 fabric stores in the U.S.; today there are 12,000. Most popular sellers have been double knits, which are strong and stretchable, and bonded fabrics, which have a backing sealed to the cloth, making...
Closely knit to the fabric boom is the greater availability of patterns by such designers as Yves St. Laurent, Pierre Cardin and Bill Blass. The concept is not new. Vogue put out its first high-fashion patterns back in 1949. But until recently there was a long lag between the appearance of a new style and its patterned reproduction. Now companies frequently turn out paper copies of Paris originals within weeks of a showing, long before ready-to-wear has even finished the basting. The home sewer, able to stitch in time, thus can stay in fashion more readily than...
Meanwhile, the food has arrived, and the Stones dressing room is being set up by two people from HSA for a buffet. You'd never have known it was a locker room. Fabric looking like tapestry on the walls, sprays of flowers on top of the benches, and a long, covered table, to hold cold cuts, bread, cheese, fruit, and assorted imported beer, and champagne. It is all written into their contract. HSA has also provided a tuxedoed bartender to mix drinks...
...small scale of the building and its particular location in relation to the basic fabric of the City may, in fact, be a more direct response to your expressed concern than the fact that the building happens to be wholly occupied by elderly residents...