Are you Sure that this dress was not altered some time? Of the dozens of dresses I have from this time period, none of them is serged!
Kathleen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Katy Bishop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "h-costume" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 5:17 PM Subject: Re: [h-cost] commercial serger use > 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 > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
