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Hanna Ter Meulen harbors design ambitions as big as a (fashion) house. But on this particular morning, she is hunched over her hands, sewing away on nothing bigger than a little pocket. That's what Italians call a jacket's breast pocket, il taschino, and Ter Meulen, thimble on finger, is finishing off the neatly lined slit in the square scrap of French-vanilla gabardine during a weeklong stint learning Old World tailoring techniques. "You have to stitch really straight," the 23-year-old student says after ironing down the soft piece of fabric. "It's not to be rushed...
Time-honored (and time-consuming) as it may be, this kind of handiwork still carries a whiff of the cutting edge here at Brioni, the Italian luxury suitmaker known for dressing everyone from James Bond to Nelson Mandela. The Dutch-born Ter Meulen is one of 12 design students from London's Royal College of Art (RCA) who arrived in Italy this winter for a crash course in tailoring at the company's factory in Penne, a town of 12,000 tucked into the rolling hills of Abruzzo...
...Meulen, who hopes to have her own line of formal wear one day, says a week of made-in-Italy experience will go a long way. "I've realized that tailoring is essential to design," she says. "You understand here how much work goes into a suit, seeing how a garment is constructed. You can design the weirdest shape you want, but you must also know what should go where." So as for il taschino, Ter Meulen now knows not only where it goes but how to get it there...
...back, two minor gaffes led to Raider goals, but they were not indicative of any wider defensive woes. On the first occasion, Colgate’s Jeff Vander Meulen drifted in front of the goal and slipped through the defense to score uncontested. The second time around, Raider Robert Trapolini simply caught the Crimson defense on its heels. Faster than Harvard anticipated, Trapolini maneuvered past his defenders with a strong first move and whipped a powerful shot past McKenna...
Herbst tallied another assist on the Raiders’ third goal, at 10:26 of the second period, on a shot from Jeff Vander Meulen...