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

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I don't see how that says anything about her. If she didn't read the books, she likely doesn't know anything about the changes. Frankly, I think just enjoying a show is a petty reason to criticize her. I couldn't get through the A Song of Ice and Fire books but I loved Game of Thrones and didn't hate the last season. It happens. Well newsflash. That "modern" fast changing fashion has actually been going on for centuries! Just one decade of historical fashion allready shows so much different styles of clothing for example. She of all people should know that. 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?

At first I thought she was a breath of fresh air and I really liked watching her sewing projects and research videos. And still do when she puts them up! But I also started to feel like she's snobby unfortunately.

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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... Banner studied in the Design and Production Studio at Tisch School of the Arts. After that, she did an internship for Tony Award-winning costume designer Jenny Tiramani at the School of Historical Dress in London. [13] She formerly worked as a costume assistant for Broadway, and later on a parody preview video of the Broadway musical Frozen. [3] May I ask why you think BB will postpone promoting her book? It's in her interests to get as many sales as possible. It's pretty on par with Americans. The US is a relatively "new" country (even though, you know, it was already settled pre colonization). In other countries, they reuse things and use things, even if they're old. In America, rather than upkeep it, we'll just demolish it, donate it, or throw it out and get something new or more convenient. she is going to bump into Cathy at an event in the spring and it will be AWKWARD. Possibly cause drama on social media.

In addition to rediscovering the methods by which clothes were made in the past, the Bernadette Banner YouTube channel seeks to explore how we in the 21st century can learn from and adopt historical sewing techniques and attitudes towards dress in an effort to fight the effects of fast fashion and mass manufacture Bernadette Banner is a filmmaker and dress historian, best known for her YouTube channel documenting the exploration, reconstruction and interpretation of historical dress. Her work focuses on English and American dress predating the widespread use of the electric sewing machine, with a particular focus in the years of dress between 1890 - 1914; all reconstruction work is done by hand or with the use of period authentic machinery. a b Gioia, Michael (8 December 2014). "Morgan James, Taylor Louderman, Derek Klena 'Preview' Disney's Low-Budget, Broadway-Bound 'Frozen' Sequel (Video)". Playbill. Archived from the original on 1 August 2016 . Retrieved 15 December 2020.Pillow friends are not just good friends. Oh, they are that, too, but they also get hot and sweaty together and muss up the sheets something fierce.” srsly. How has not a single fellow high schooler/university peer not broken the silence or shared *anything*?? Honestly what landed me on this forum was Googling if anyone knew her from high school. If there was any sources from the "before" time that BB supposedly has a medical reason for not remembering. Unless she was home schooled? Like someone has got to know who she was before this persona. Whether you are just getting started with sustainable fashion and need to alter your new secondhand finds, or you want an introduction to sewing techniques for making your own clothes, Bernadette Banner’s signature voice will guide you through all the traditional stitches and techniques you need to extend the life of your favorite pieces and take fashion into

I feel bad for being so nosey, especially when someone has made the effort to be so private, but surely she must know that the mysteries she presents to the viewer incites prying behaviour? It is boring as hell for me. I would say, I wasted that time, except, I've knitted, so it was not completely lost... Anyhow, her statements are generally fine, except on the 1851 book, when she says, that it is high crinolin time, when crinolins were patented in the middle of the decade (so a few years later). But then again, we've already seen all this. Nothing new.Wait her facts are wrong, then it pointed to the viewer of her videos saying that it was not ment to be educational but entertainment and nothing more. Then why make such a videoI 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. Especially since I imagine Bernadette banner herself would take strong issue with your dismissing a lesbian relationship so callously.

I mean it is possible that there just isn't that much to tell. I get that the nature of this forum is to hope there's some juicy secret just waiting to come to light, but it is entirely possible that there isn't much there beyond the usual embarrassing teenager stuff that most of us would rather leave behind when we grow up. Though this could be a marketing ploy by the publishing company because I just nearly bought the book to spite the reviewers, before I caught myself on Anyone who watches 10 minutes of her video is desperate to find out how an unemployed woman who takes on no sewing commissions can afford a Manhattan apartment.No, I don't think you missed anything... she did not say. I have no idea, what's up with her, probably, as the others say, she is doing something else, beside Youtube, but even so, she COULD say something. This is just something totally random, "lets pull something out of my hat and let's see if I can get away with it" kinda think. Okay, at leats its not a several days worth of whining over YET ANOTHER victorian skirt, but something else.... (which I suppose wasn't even sewn mainly by her, but Heatcliff)... The point is that she was constantly talking how she loves READING, that she can't live without books, constantly shows off super hard books to read ( I follow her on GoodReads too btw). And she even wasnt reading them - listening on Audioble. Its quite strange tbh that such a book worm wont read Jordan. To like or not to like - this can apply only after reading. When I said that she liked the simplified horrible script TV series, and could not stretch her mind to read the books by the author because it wasnt following the script of the tv series, I mean that she is faking herself a lot.