Regarding the neutral colors of menswear: You can also easily overdye menswear
to create much more interesting fabrics.Lighter colors, of course, work best
for this. A light grey is delicious overdyed with purple or magenta. I've done
the same with overdyeing heavily worn denim.
Donna Hawk
For one of my classes A while Back I had to recycle mens wool garments
into a tailored jacket. Pics can be seen here closer to the bottom of
the page: http://izodiea.livejournal.com/10371.html I was amazed how
much fabric this project ate up. I used four full garments to make one,
and all I
For one of my classes A while Back I had to recycle mens wool garments
into a tailored jacket.
Recycling garments into other garments became popular in the Great
Depression of the 1930s, and became unpopular when it didn't have to
be so necessary.
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Carolyn Kayta Barrows
--
“The future is
Recycling garments into others was routine long before the 1930s. I've
always thought that the 1920s would have killed the habit, because 20s
styles used so little material in comparison to most garments of
previous generations, and because ready-to-wear became the prominent
method of
From: f...@lavoltapress.com
To: h-cost...@indra.com
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Subject: Arty recycling of garments-Recycled Jacket
Recycling garments into others was routine long before the 1930s. I've
always thought that the 1920s would have killed the habit, because 20s
styles used so little
On 4/22/2010 5:10 PM, Becky Rautine wrote:
Today of MSN.com there is a link to photos of clothes made from other clothes
or other things. Just about anything can be restyled
http://lifestyle.msn.com/your-life/staticslideshowdg.aspx?cp-documentid=23728245gt1=32055
Sincerely,
Rebecca Rautine
Lots of examples of too-arty-to-be-wearable.
Except to a science fiction convention, or an evening event in San Francisco
(by a twenty-something), or to a Wearable Art or Fiber Art event.
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Carolyn Kayta Barrows
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“The future is already here, it is just unevenly distributed.”
-William Gibson
