14 - Sunday, March 30, 1986 - North Shore News

Quiet revolution in home sewing
provides high fashion cost relie

A QUIET revolution is happening — not the grim front-
page type, yet one that touches every community — it is the
revolution in home sewing, that formerly painstaking
homebound activity.

Long a money-saving product
of the wife-at-home role, sewing
suffered a body blow in the seven-
ties when women returned to work
en masse. The impact was in-
evitable: women suddenly had less
time to sew and more access to
ready-made.

Fusible interfacings, already a
fact, evolved into a wide range of
chemically sophisticated and ver-
satile products. An explosion of
new publications and seminars
began to replace the schools and
mamia’s knee as learning sites.

By good luck, fashion's return
to natural fibres in the seventies
and the eighties evolution of the
oversized silhouette made sewing
easier.

Next to appear were dramatic
advances in major sewing equip-
ment. The new star was the tech-
nological marvel ef the program-
mable computer sewing machine.

Though unable to take over like

“GIVE ’EM
HELL!’

is the washing Instruction, and “Free Replacement
If They EVER Wear out” is the promise on our
Tilley Shorts (the ones with the six-pack carrying
capacity).

FOR ADVENTURES —

© Tilley Pants: tz secret seventh pocket is for your
passport, Sizes: 30 to 52; women: 6-18.

¢ Tilley Long Shorts, Culottes, and Wrap Skirt
(available soon) also have a hidden pocket.

© Tilley Hats are acknowledged to be the world’s
best outdoor hats. They float, tie on, repel rain,
won't shrink, last, and so on.

® Tilley Cottons: marvellous casuals which are
NC-IRON, NO SHRINKING (no kidding!).

“It’s all terrific, from hate to pante!”
“Dr. doe MacInnis (first scientist UNDER the North Pole}

DO see us before you need us; we're always out of something! §
“We have it made in Canada!” Alex Tilley j

many women. Sewing retained its
appeal, but how to find the time?

The home sewing industry saw
the writing on the wall, and while a
few sectors turned to hand-wring-
ing, most moved fast to adapt their
wares to the new reality.

Pattern companies acted to
eliminate the time-lag between

Yet the move into the cookie-
cutter, one-size-fits-all world of
ready-to-wear with its soaring
prices was less than satisfying for

tunway and pattern versions and
to vastly expand their easy offer-
ings, incoporated more and more
fast industrial sewing methods.

ENHANCING your image
through eyewear ‘involves proper
selection of frame color as well as
style. .

In eyewear, as in fashion, the
popular concept of the seasonal
color palétte is extremely valuable
in maximizing your total look.

Accurate selection involves
knowing what colors look best
with your seasonal palette:

The Winter Pallette’s dark hair
and deep skin tones are enhanced
by darker frame colors such as
deep blues, reds and greys. If
metals are preferred, winter
brunettes look their best in smoky
tones and chromes, rather than
golds.

The Spring Palette’s ivory-
skinned blondes look super in
eyewear tones in the amber, peach,
caramel and brown family. Gold-
toned metals are most flattering to
those in the Spring Palette.

eSummer Palette blondes with
rosy beige skin are flattered with
eyewear shades of pale blue, toast,
light rose~ and lavender. Taupe-
colored metals look especially well
on summer blondes.

*Autumn auburns and redheads
with creamy white or freckled
skins look wonderful in chocolate
browns, tortoise tones, and greens.
Metal frames in shades of cafe and
copper are made to order for
Autumn avburns. :

| PREPARE
FOR

Endure

DROP IN, PHONE Barbara Tilley
QR WRITE 1559 Pemberton Ave., J
MON.-SAT. North Van, V7P 2S3

10-5 980-2631

/ Distinctive
Fashion
Fabrics

Our exciting spring/summer fabrics
are now in.
Visit Elle soon for a choice selection of
silks, cottons, linens, bridal fabric
and woollens from many countries.

Experience Elle...
the fabric store without equal.

Store Hours:
9:30 - 5:30 daily, Friday 9:30 - 9:00
Sunday Noon — 5:00 p.m.

elle

644 Seymour Street — 683-7466

| Andrew i is alive and weil

..and so are all
his friends.

Ten years ago children with
Trukemia hid file hope.
Voday 50% are cured.

mates naa e May ante ed ren He ny
thane BURR Strh DD, Nair St

elves in the night, computer
machines provide a wider range of
functions, quicker operation and
greater precision for flawless
results, The operator can punch a
stitch sequence into the memory,
tepeat a buttonhole indefinitely,
monogram and write, invert and
reshape stitches, return to pre-set
stitch formats, and do it all by
touching a pad.

has begun. Besides, it doesn’: take
many $300 outfits to justify ube
higher price, as many purchasers
have concluded.

Competing now for the sewer’s
attention is an even more revolu-
tionary machine, the serger. After
decades in manufacturing, the
overlock sewing machine has hit
the consumer market with a bang.

A serger stitches, trims and
finishes seams and edges at
super-high speeds, saving hours of
stitching and trimming time and —
very important today — creating a
clean ‘‘ready-made”’ interior look.

See Glue
Page 15

AFFORDABLE FASHION

Such marvels come at a price —
up to $2,000 — but the trickle-
down process by which similar ca-
pabilities appear in cheaper models

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