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 > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > -- Katy Bishop, Vintage Victorian [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.VintageVictorian.com Custom reproduction gowns of the Victorian Era. Publisher of the Vintage Dress Series books. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
