Sew and Mend Make: Traditional Techniques to Sustainably Maintain and Refashion Your Clothes

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Um, what makes you think we're her core audience? She started as someone learning historical costuming, popularized it, she now caters to people who haven't touched a needle and want to see pretty dresses being made without too much boring technical stuff. Or just victwardian shenanigans. Pretty pictures, not research. So have done a deep dive on all of these threads my eyes are square and uni work lingering. However, one of the biggest things that has annoyed me about the old machines us this treatment of them being so precious. Same with CH tbf. Oh let me send it off to a specialist. But no, she draped it? and did a heavily boned RECTANGLE for a collar? Collar stays for light fabric were squiggly wire shaped to stretch as needed according to the height of your collar. Collars have a curved shape, even modern ones do. Also... the twill binding is too bulky, and short? how is that going to attach to the dress's waistband? is she going to make it two-piece?

I mean that is so pithy (is that the right word) to take down those sewing videos, hoping her skillshare class would sell better. That is just cheap. In 2019, a 15th-century-inspired gown Banner made was poorly copied and sold by an online merchant using Banner's photo [10] in the sales listing. Banner bought the dress and made a public video in which she criticized its poor construction. [11] Learn the Historically Proven Stitches Every Seamster Needs with Beloved Historical Fashion YouTuber Bernadette BannerEllis, Emma Grey (25 June 2019). "Spiff Up Your Real-World Skills With Old-Timey YouTube". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Archived from the original on 8 November 2020 . Retrieved 29 November 2020. Same goes for BB's expert knowledge. Compared to a random person on the street with zero sewing/history knowledge she's an expert, that's what they call her. The same thing is happening to Rachel when people get irritated that she calls herself a beginner when she has plenty sewing projects under her belt. But in reality she is (no shade on Rachel, love her regardless). The Christmas video has really thrown me! How can anyone, in this day and age claim to know nothing of Christmas and all it’s traditions?? I used to really enjoy her posts and her obvious talent, but to claim she has no knowledge when it is quite easy to google and find that she has a very privileged upbringing with her parents having an article in the New York Times boasting about the size of their closet and how most New York apartments would fit into said closet! Mother is successful real estate business owner and father a builder. Sister is also very successful with high powered job in NY! It is unfortunate that she has chosen to ‘act’ in this way as I can now only view her as a historical interpreter, not dissimilar to the Mrs Crocomb that she often raves about! Someone here mentioned that she liked Ren fairs and her Moiraine cosplay would fit right in. But are there Ren fairs in the UK? From what I heard it's an American thing (I certainly wasn't familiar with the concept pre-YouTube, it's not a thing in my country). Kind of sad if she isn't be able to actually wear the dress. I cant imagine how someone would put it in the middle of the instructions proper, without realizing it would get annoying real fast.

This was such a weird random video out of context. Either I missed something but I didn't understand what project the cape belongs to or when it was started. Maybe it was part of the project she didn't share because of the strike? Or more it feels like the ad was on a schedule and she had to have a video just to keep to it. RESEARCH & EXPERIMENT VIDEOS: largely unaffected; any media references will be cut and projects released as normal. But then again...I get really irritated by Americans who think they're so much better than the rest of us because they drink tea and have seen an episode of The Great British Bake Off. They completely romanticize English culture, and she in particular idealizes Victorian England. Yes, in Victorian England the clothes were lovely. There were also no labor laws so six year olds were working in factories for fourteen hours a day, women had very few rights, and there was rampant colonialization going on all over the world. It wasn't Downton Abbey for everyone. And people like her always look down their noses at the rest of us Americans, who are so uncouth with our ~fast fashion~. Ever heard of Top Shop, Bernie? Also-also Venus in Winter isn't a romance novel, it's trashy historical fiction. That one's not our fault!) I never know how to rate non-fiction books. On the writing style? On the information within? On how much it draws you in? Other than the first, these things are very personal, regarding your experience and interests.Isn't this whole "it's older than me so it must be incredibly rare and precious" thing an American thing? I'm a European and I watch A LOT of Pawn Stars and similar shows and it always puzzles me how so many people assume that old things must be incredibly valuable. I have a 1888 French book at home. It sells for 20€ or less...

The new video she just uploaded about celebrating (British) Christmas for the first time is full of all that. I guess her family is probably religious but not Christian/Catholic? She pretends to not know what Christmas Eve is . The video obviously wouldn't be complete without Bernadette lovingly staring at the TV while the Queen's Speech is playing. (And again, it's not a part of Christmas tradition for the vast, vast majority of British people).If anyone else watches this, I'd love to hear your thoughts. I'm clearly going into this video already on defense mode. Or she's just been so aloof and hard to be friends with nobody actually really knew her well enough to say what she was like. She strikes me as someone who doesn't make friends easily - especially with how much of a class 5 clinger she was to Cathy. The mending section does a very good job of explaining darning and patching, but how about tears along seams? What about how to handle worn-out sections of a garment? Isn't that a big part of making something last, of sustainably maintaining clothing? Again, I would have liked a bit more about how to maintain clothing. (There was nothing about stains--hiding them can be a sewing project worth doing.)

Mason, Jessica (2 October 2020). "YouTuber Breaks Down Five Movies That Nailed Their Historical Costumes". The Mary Sue. Archived from the original on 4 November 2020 . Retrieved 13 December 2020.In terms of her isolating and cutting people out... that's something that is really common for people who put on such extremely curated personas. People before have mentioned she was so very different as "Erica" and I'm sure her rich girl- modern fashion student living it up in New York was very different from this weird Historian personality she adopted out of nowhere. Maybe she's managed to keep it super secret from day one of her youtube channel (which makes it more suspect that she grew organically) but it doesn't really seem like she has much of a circle of people from her life before the hobby. So the stories are in the middle of the sewing instructions? Because, as someone who didnt read the book - or intend to, tbh. Im too broke for that and l have a bunch of books from archive.org - I thought it was in the middle sections between different garments. Like here is chapter xyz about this, now a bit of story, now its chapter zxy a b Hyde, Jen (3 January 2020). "Learning Mindfulness From the Art of Victorian Dressmaking". Hyperallergic. Archived from the original on 21 July 2020 . Retrieved 29 November 2020.