Hi.  I have a dress in my collection, presumably commercially made,
from about 1908, that has some serged seams, mainly the side seams as
I recall.  It is a white cotton lingerie dress with lots of lace
insertion.

Katy

On 12/4/05, Judy Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>        I've just spent over an hour searching (google, A9, wiki, Jeeves...) to
> find information on when sergers began. I'm looking to find how early
> the common use of serging for off-the-rack clothing would be. I found
> lots on the history of the standard sewing maching, but zippo on
> sergers/overlockers. anybody run across this?
>
>        Thanks in advance,
>        Judy Mitchell
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