Word: taschino
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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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...
...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...
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