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    You, sir, are my new best friend!

    5 posts, latest post: skud Sep 16, 2007 8:57:13pm
    1. skud
      Sep 13, 2007 1:56:03pm
      skud says:

      Textile data modelling *and* you've been messing with Georgette Heyer novels! *hearts*

      2. gmackenz
        Sep 13, 2007 6:42:50pm
        gmackenz says:

        An invisible friend from the San Francisco Bay Area who has a secret pash for Regency romance novels. The textiles work is a 'lure' for my wife to investigate/use Freebase. She did a lot of the type associations to topics already.

      3. skud
        Sep 15, 2007 2:37:56am
        skud says:

        I'm luring in a friend of mine who runs a vintage clothing store in Australia and is working on a book on vintage clothing. She wants to categorise styles and details of clothing so that eg. you can know that dropped waistlines were popular in such-and-such a period and high waistlines in these other periods, or whatever.

      4. gmackenz
        Sep 15, 2007 5:57:02am
        gmackenz says:

        So then she'd enjoy (if she hasn't already visited) my wife's Vintage Sewing site of old public domain sewing/patterning/clothing/household books available to the masses.

      5. skud
        Sep 16, 2007 8:57:13pm
        skud says:

        Nice! I've got a box full of my mum's old stuff from the 50s; she studied at Emily MacPherson College here in Melbourne doing a 2 year (?) diploma of dressmaking and became a professional dressmaker. The books include lots of fashion design sketches, pattern-making theory stuff, and samples of different stitches, techniques, and so on. Must get around to scanning/photographing it all and putting it online sometime.