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		<title>The Making of McCalls Pattern 1937</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 07:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever wonder how vintage patterns were made back in the day? At least in 1937 here’s how McCalls did it: The story of the pattern began in Paris, where the members of the art and designing department visited salons of all the famous Parisian dress designers and bought models which they selected first by eyeing, then from the style standpoint and lastly from the standpoint of practicability and simplicity. The models are then sent to New York to the art and designing department of the McCall Company. From the gowns, muslin garments were made up, line for line reproductions of the originals. With details complete, the only difference was the deletion of unnecessary dressmaking steps in order to make it easier for home dressmakers to construct the garments. Live models tried on the muslin garments which were carefully checked and corrected.  Once perfected muslin master patterns were cut in the grading and drafting departments-as were construction charts (and translated into English, French and Spanish). Once a complete set of pattern pieces were made from the muslin a committee of women checked and re-checked the pattern instructions. From the final master pattern-various sizes were made and notched. In the drafting room [...]]]></description>
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		<title>123 Shift</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 06:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can you recommend a simple sheath style for someone that&#8217;s not very experienced with sewing? I&#8217;d like a sleeveless dress with a high, collarless neckline. &#160; This is a beautiful simple sheath with a shallow neckline and it&#8217;s seamed to slender proportions-giving a classic look.  Good luck! Callie]]></description>
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		<title>The Fashionable Well Made Dress</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Designer Philosophy:  Emilio Pucci</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pucci on his designer beginnings &#8220;At first I bought my fabrics retail as I needed them-yard by yard. I tried to buy them wholesale, but nobody would sell them to me without cash in advance. &#8220;For eight years &#8211; while the world thought I was a rich man &#8211; I drew less money out of the business than a janitor would earn in New York.&#8221; When Pucci realized he was on the way to success, he decided that, above all else, he would restore the vast 1000-year-old Palazzo Pucci that he had inherited on his father&#8217;s death. Although virtually in shambles, it contained fabulous treasures, especially paintings &#8211; Botticelli, Raphael, and Leonardo da Vinci had all painted members of the Pucci family. &#8220;The only way I could restore the palazzo was by using half of it for workshops and showrooms,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Every penny I made went back into making the palazzo a wonderful place to work in and live in. Now my girls work in the most beautiful building in Florence. Pucci on business &#8220;I&#8217;m not a social type, nor am I a businessman,&#8221; he says. &#8220;I&#8217;m just a salesman of enchantment.&#8221; Pucci on beauty &#8220;The 500 girls who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emilio Pucci</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[EMILIO PUCCI was born on November 20, 1914, eldest son of the Márchese Pucci di Barzento, one of the greatest aristocratic families in Italy, descended partly from Peter the Great of Russia. Until Emilio (who succeeded to the title when his father died in 1945) started sketching ski-pants in 1947, no member of the Pucci family had worked for 1000 years. By the time he was a schoolboy the family fortunes had dwindled-comparatively speaking. There was still no need for anybody to work, and there were plenty of servants and chauffeurs, but the family seat, the Palazzo Pucci in Florence, was run down and virtually unused. The family lived on a country estate at Fiesole. Here Emilio and his brother, Puccio, one year younger, were brought up with in- credible lack of preparation for the world ahead, two poor little rich boys for whom the clock had been turned back 300 years. The Puccis kept two cars-each with a chauffeur &#8211; but every day, rain or shine, Emilio and his brother had to walk four miles to school. &#8220;I remember trudging through the rain,&#8221; said Emilio, &#8221; and being passed by the two family cars &#8211; empty. The chauffeurs had [...]]]></description>
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