18 - Sunday, March 19, 1989 - North Shore News

FASHION

NORTH VAN SEMINAR

Home sewers helped
with silks and satin

A DYNAMIC new Siiks & Satins
seminar has been developed by
North Vancouver's Hazel Boyd of
Tex-Mar Seminars.

If you’ve got the sewing
machine, Boyd has the know-how
and is prepared to give the home
sewer and designer a fast and easy
education in the use of silk. Boyd
offers valuable tips on how to per-
sonalize patterns with designer
looks. She calls her method KISS:
Keep it sophisticated but simple.

*“We cover all of the ramifica-
tions of sewing with silk fabric —
right from the types of silks avail-
able ali the way down to par-
ticulars on what types of silks are
best suited to what styles of
clothing,”* says Boyd.

A former Canadian director for
Knit and Stretch sewing, Boyd
boasts extensive experience in pat-
tern and dress design, having stud-
ied three years under European in-
struction in pattern drafting and
haute couture.

She’s also tie author of two
sewing books: Couture Action
Knits and, hot off the press, the
revised edition of Silks and Satins.

With the current swell of interest
in ons-of-a-kind handmade gar-
ments, business is booming.

Terrifying though the thought
might be at first, Boyd says you
can make your own silk lingerie,
Because the fabric requirements
are so small (only about one metre
for a teddy), why not treat yourself
to the very best fabrics?

Flannelette is fine, but there’s
nothing quite like the feei of silks
and satin. Treat yourself to a
lace-trimmed teddy in a creamy
silk charmeuse for just under $30.

And none of the garments sport
that dreaded ‘‘loving-hands-at-
home’’ look. Al! it takes is a little
instruction and confidence.

“A lot of women just aren’t
familiar with the types of silk
fabrics,’’ says Boyd, who is doing
her best to de-mystify luxury
fabrics that have a reputation for
being hard to handle.

Even if you’re far too nervous to
tackle genuine silk, the instruction
is still worthwhile.

“Silk has been copied in syn-
thetic form, so a lot of the tech-
niques that work with silk can also

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shows sewers how they can make their own silk liagerie, as shown above,
in ber intest Tex-Mar seminar at the Coach House inn, March 28.

or *15 a piece

apply to polyesters as well,” she

says.

Feedback has revealed silk pres-
ents the most problems; how to
care for it, cut it out, sew it, types
of seams that work best, and so
on,

But after women leave the pres-
entation mest are ready to take the
plunge.

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The fee for the three-hour semi-
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the Coach House Inn, Tues.
March 28 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.,
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