Last week I finally got to see the Charles James exhibit I had gone last week with my daughter. as much as she loves clothes, she has lass patience when it comes to exploring the frankly geekier side of clothing construction. In deference to her, my visit last week was shorter than I would have hoped. Yesterday my sewing buddy Welmoed, drove up from Maryland to see the exhibit with a car full of her sewing friends. I took advantage of the opportunity of seeing the exhibit again with people who care about how the understructure of a dress is constructed, how a piece of fabric is cut . But seeing Welmoed is always a treat either with or without having the additional thrill of exceptional dresses to look at. If you are kicking yourself for not having seen the exhibit, this page will provide you with enough links to give you a pretty good sense of what the exhibit was all about. I was delighted by this exhibit by the Costume Institute. Their exhibits for the past several years w...
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