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Description: | Modelling on-the-stand involved interpreting a fashion sketch into a three-dimensional design which was achieved by pinning, draping and cutting a soft cotton fabric, usually Leno or Mull, on dress stand until the desired effect was obtained. The fabric was then marked and ready to be used as a pattern. This was a technique in which many of the dressmaking trade teachers excelled. Although former dressmaking senior and evening class students testify to learning modelling on-the-stand in the 1930s, the archive of the London College of Fashion has no photographs of this process being carried out during the inter-war period. Trade overalls Notes in the archive indicate that, from the 1915 inception of the Trade School for Girls at Barrett Street, pupils wore trade overalls that reflected their area of study. From the photographic archive, the following convention seems to have been followed up until the mid-1930s, with some possible exceptions for hairdressing students during the early years of the school: · Dressmaking students - wore white overalls with red and green embroidery. · Embroidery junior students - wore white overalls with collars embroidered in orange and gold · Embroidery senior students - wore white overalls with embroidered monograms · Tailoring students - wore blue overalls (these appear dark in the black and white archive images) · Hairdressing junior students - wore short sleeved overalls with black and white embroidered collars · Hairdressing senior students - wore plain white overalls During this period, overalls may also have been characterised by the cut of the neckline: round necks for embroidery students, square necks for dressmaking students. This differentiation is at times seemingly inconsistent in the photographic archive, although it has been reported by at least one historian who has studied the history of the London trade schools. Around the early to mid 1930s, trade overalls for students were changed to wrap around garments. No uniforms were required for mature evening students of any period. | Subjects: | photograph uniforms trade overalls female students toile eveningwear daywear fashion illustration dress stands Dressmaking class: dressmaking class womenswear modelling on the stand | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Photographer unknown Creator Corporate Name: Barrett Street school | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=7625... | Go to resource |
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