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Description: | Former students of the school recollected class sizes ranging between 16 to 20 students, so this class appears to be quite large. The students are learning to make bespoke tailored garments. These garments were individually made to the wearer's measurements. The outer fabric was shaped and moulded with special supporting inner fabrics. This required the use of specialised hand stitching. The room is, therefore, laid out predominantly for hand work, with small sewing equipment kept in the centre of the table. Wooden foot rests are provided for students' feet. Inscription on mount surrounding photograph reads: "1st Ladies' Tailoring Room." 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 Tailoring class: women´s tailoring class womenswear lecturer coats skirts blackboard dresses daywear suits dress stands sewing machine scarf | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Photographer unknown Creator Corporate Name: Barrett Street school | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=7648... | Go to resource |
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