History of zippers

      I know, why zippers? and why write the history of something so small. Well I'm gonna show you guys the history of zippers because it plays a big part in the fashion industry, they're practically everywhere on our clothes, object, and also used for sayings. 
      The sipper has passed through the hands of several dedicated inventors, it was the magazine and fashion industry that made the novel zipper the popular item it is today. Elias Howe, inventor of the sewing machine, success of the sewing machine, and after Elias received a patent in 1851 got an " automatic, continues clothing closure. " 
Maybe the cause of Elias not to pursue marketing his clothing closure system was also tied to the sewing machine success. As a result, Howe missed his chance to become the recognized "Father of the Zip." Whitcomb Judson, also inventor of the "Pneumatic street railway," forty-four years ago. 
       Together with businessman Colonel Lewis Walker, Whitcomb launched the Universal Fastener Company to manufacture the new device. The clasp locker debuted at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and was met with little commercial success. A Swedish-born electrical engineer named Gideon Sundback whose work helped make the zipper the hit it is today. Originally, hired to work for the Universal Fastener Company, his design skills and a marriage to the plant-manager's daughter Elvira Aronson led to a position as head designer at Universal.  "Judson C-curity Fastener." And when Sundback's wife died in 1911, the grieving husband busied himself at the design table and by December of 1913, came up with what would become the modern zipper.
        popular "zipper" name came from the B. F. Goodrich Company, which decided to use Gideon's fastener on a new type of rubber boots or galoshes. It took twenty more years to convince the fashion industry to seriously promote the novel closure on garments. 
        Thus, The next big boost for the zipper came when devices that open on both ends arrived, such as on jackets. Today the zipper is everywhere, in clothing, luggage, leather goods and countless other objects. Thousands of zipper miles are produced daily to meet the needs of consumers, thanks to the early efforts of the many famous zipper inventors.







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Oscar Fashion

      In last night's Oscar fashion there was many beautiful fashion dresses that need more than just photos! I honestly didn't watch all of it, but I did get the chance to look at all the outfit that was worn on the red carpet. I have two favorites that really caught my eye. One was from a female, Taraji p. Henson. The second was, Terrence Howard. They have really caught my eye for best dress, in my opinion. But of course, I didn't only look at Terrence, there was two other men that had best dress too but I had to pick for this blog (TAT) <= crying face haha. 
      Taraji didn't have that much on and dress didn't have a lot of zing into it, but that's kind of what I like. Taraji honestly looks amazing in anything you put her in, she will rock it no matter what cause she has that face to go with it, and she has the body structure. (not saying you need one) But to me, taraji look absolutely beautiful in this dress. She had the skin showing, she had her figure out, the shirt curled/messy hair, purse, shoes, and that breath taking diamond necklace she has on! She completely killed me with this amazing beautiful dress on the red carpet.


      For the second look I want to point out is Terrence Howard, he had a nice PJ suit kind of look, and to me it looked very handsome on him. He too is one that looks very good in anything you put on him, his red carpet look is definitely something he would wear. His looked very amazing on him, even I would wear that hahaha, and plus I just wanna give a shine on his shoes and just point out how clean and fresh they look! Like where can I get a pair! hahaha!
 
There was trends I did notice, but there wasn't much of it shown, and I honestly think this little trend isn't my favorite at all. The trend I saw was a mermaid kind of look that shown skin and has a skin tone to make it look like your skin when the dress is on. I saw a few women dress in it and I do think it's not my most favorite. 
     The Oscar culture, For years, conservatives have railed against Hollywood's liberal political leanings, gleefully citing declining award-show ratings as proof that people were turned off by civics lectures from privileged stars. At this point, the Academy of Motion Picture arts and Sciences, which presents the Oscars, and ABC, which televises it, should have little to fear in terms of alienating potential viewers. The Academy Awards, admittedly, provide a much bigger stage, second only to playoff football among annual televised events. But its viewership drop over the years -- to about 34.4 million viewers in 2016, the lowest number since 2008. So despite the red carpet and fine attire, expect a few sharp rhetorical elbows to fly. And those with a stake in the show's performance are likely prepared to let the chips, and ratings, fall where they may.
 Thank you for reading today's blog, will be posting tomorrow, 
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2017 Grammy's awards

     Last night's Grammy awards was off the chains, many people are talking about it in social media, they say how amazing it was. But most of the talk was pointing towards Beyoncé's outstanding, heart moving performance.  
      There was some outfits I saw that were okay to me, some that I loved, and those I thought why would someone wear that, HaHaHa!But the outfit that I was really eyeballing was the amazing Daft punk. What they worn was so AMAZING! I loved it and was really just stuck looking at it cause it was so cool! what Daft punk worn in their performance really dropped my jaw in such a good way, cause it was so god like, and it just really made feel like it was a future thing; I just really loved it.  

     Ugh! love it.  I really love the cape part and I seen a small clip of after the performance, when they were walking to the back, and saw draft punk walking with their beautiful capes on; AAH! I loved how they looked like gods! 😃
     The next outfit I want to just talk about that I also really loved is Beyoncé's outfit on stage! She looked absolutely beautiful, evening in her pregnancy she still shown on stage and slayed! her Lemonade album was very heart moving, heart warming, religion working in such a spectacular way, and was just unforgettable. I seriously cried cause that's how very touching it was for me and if I had to watch it again then I will watch it hundreds times more,because it was the most beautiful thing that I have ever seen and no one can ever top that.










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Raf Simons

    Raf Simons. Head designer of Calvin Klein and menswear designer extraordinaire. Raf Simons is a Belgian fashion designer. Beginning in furniture design, he launched his own menswear label in 1995. In April 2012 he was announced as the creative director at Christian Dior. On October 22, 2015 he resigned from Christian Dior. Simons graduated in Industrial Design and Furniture Design from a college in Genk in 1991. To say that Simons is a god among New York menswear geeks would not be hyperbole, and to have him showing his collection here — for him to deem New York worthy — feels substantial, his endorsement of the city working to further legitimise its entire men’s fashion industry.
        His work gives me many mentions, Not the bad type of emotions, more like a bit good. When a scan through his work on the runway, it gives a feeling of the big city fashion, and a sort of comfy feeling, then warm, and then summer. Al his design do look the same but also different in the sometime. I actually really like it. 
         












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McCall pattern company.

      Do-it-yourself fashion thrives at the McCall pattern company, a 1915 skyscraper in Manhattan’s financial district, you will find rooms filled with buttons and zippers, bolts of fabric on work tables and metal file drawers stuffed with paper pattern packets. A room where muslin women is fitted to dress forms; a dressmaking room, where they slave away making sample garments; and a photo studio, where models pose for simple shoots that emphasize the clothes, and rather than sex or sizzle. 80 or so employees, home sewing is not so much a retro thing as it is a timeless pursuit.
      There it was, a representation of the company she works for, alongside rotary phones and carousel slide projectors taken from the collective cultural attic.The patterns created here are blueprints, essential enablers for do-it-yourself-minded women and men who want to look stylish without plunking down thousands at a department store or the latest pop-up shop. Gretchen Hirsch, a blogger, author and pattern designer who began sewing seriously 10 years ago when she was in her 20s, said the process of picking out a McCall pattern has not changed from when she visited fabric stores with her mother as a girl in the 1980s. A new appreciation for artisanal crafts has led the Etsy generation to embrace sewing. Once done mainly out of economic necessity, making clothes at home is back in fashion, relatively speaking.
      Lately, McCall has been mining its past to build a bridge to the future, posting images from its impressive archive to social media sites like Instagram and Pinterest. Which, is also known for getting social. Famous faces jump out on almost every page. There’s Iman and Christie Brinkley modeling sportswear at the dawn of their careers in October 1977. Vogue Patterns was always the high-fashion bible for the advanced sewer. work from the star designers that appeared in its pages, including Givenchy, Christian Dior and Valentino, dispelled the notion that homemade clothing was frumpy or for the members of religious cults.
thank you for reading, I hope I gave helpful information. 😊😊


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SAG awards 2017

       During the weekend there was a very popular event on Jan 29, 2017. (on a Sunday) during night time I was watching the SAG awards right before bedtime and very much enjoyed the time, I seen many colors, and seen many beautiful dresses. But, the color I kept seeing during the awards was a skin color nude look, everything was light skin, and or a shaded pink. The most fashion I seen during the awards was skin tight dresses or dresses with poof and a lot of skin showing. Who doesn't like a little skin show? female like showing themselves in the slightest way to show how much they really themselves. Therefore, there's always clothing out there showing a bit of skin on the female body and I think there should be more of it, because even the thick looking girls would look really nice in it too, and not many thick girls wear that type of stuff. 
       While I was watching I saw this dress that really caught my eye deeply and made me fall in love. The dress is made by Reem Acraa nd the dress was worn by Taraji P. Henson. I honestly love this dress because it gives me a feeling of princess all over it. During little girly years and probably all of ours too, I would always obsess over princesses and how perfect they look. So this dress really made me feel like that and made me fall head over heals for. The dress is pink with a bit a of brown (in my best guest) it shows a large amount of chest and has so much glam on it. (Glam is jewels) I didn't feel like there was much done with her hair but over all I really loved the dress and I felt like it was out of the box. 
      I would really wear this dress so much for no reason because that's how amazing it is to me T0T (  <-- emoji  )



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Toilet paper dress project!

    In fashion class there was a very creative project we had to do in groups of  four. The project was making toilet paper dresses on the manikin. In the project I didn't think much of it and thought it was gonna be something to just kill some time, and usually I would draw or make something when I feel like killing time. During the making our team shown a amazing effect of teamwork. Not many teams have team work and those who do, don't have enough. Our team shown teamwork and strong structure, we build the dress first on paper, and changed it a few times to make it much better; I'm quite happy we did it on paper instead of going right to the manikin. Many people would have choose doing it on the manikin first than doing the paper. Maybe it's an energy thing? or just saving time..?


       
       During the making of the dress we changed it a few times, first we drawn it long and poof, changed it too long and skinny, and then we settled with a short skirt, hip cape, and backless dress; though there is more to this than what it says. The dress has a long flowing hip cape that touches the ground, thee back doesn't have straps for it is half covered with a illusion spread of white flowers, the flowers were gonna stay at the back but we decided to just make it a dress with flowers spread on like an illusion, and keeping the cape around the hips. After putting the details on the dress and making sure was perfect for presentation, the instructor then tells us that we learned something while making the dresses. 

       We learned the different qualities of the designs we put in the dress, not noticing there is lines all over the dresses, and what I mean by lines all over the dress is that are called "Elements of design" the elements of design are color, line, form, and texture. Each of these elements plays times referred role on forming the structure of clothing designs. 
Lines give direction, break larger areas into smaller ones, create movement, carrying the eye from one area to another, and they can be vertical, horizontal, diagonal, or curved. The lines we mostly used was vertical, horizontal, and curved. These lines mean something in fashion industry. Vertical lines lead the eye up and down. They give the feeling of height, dignity, and strength.  Vertical lines could be seen on the dress in the hip cape area. The lines show dignity a lot more than it does with the others. Next, we have the horizontal lines showing on the dress. Horizontal lines carry the eye from side to side. Such lines suggest a feeling or calm relaxation, but can add width. Horizontal lines show on the lower part of the dress;the skirt part. It does lead my eye from one side to the other side, making me look at the design that's nicely spread out on the dress, and I would honestly not change it. 
Lastly we have curved lines. Curved lines gently bend. They create the appearance of softness and fullness. The curves are seen all over the dress, which are the flowers, and with each well made flower gives a gentle soft look. 

       Thank you for reading this blog and I hope you all enjoyed the blog today, more will come, and goodbye.