{"id":63331,"date":"2010-07-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/building-blocks-of-fashion-showcases-doll-minikins\/"},"modified":"2010-07-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T00:00:00","slug":"building-blocks-of-fashion-showcases-doll-minikins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2010\/07\/building-blocks-of-fashion-showcases-doll-minikins\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Blocks of Fashion showcases doll \u2018minikins\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tDolls latest donation to 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Commercial Pattern Archive<\/p>\n


\n\tKINGSTON, R.I.–July 13, 2010\u2014Fashion \u201cdolls\u201d dressed in clothes created from McCall\u2019s and Simplicity patterns are on exhibit in the display cases on the first and second floor of the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Robert L. Carothers Library and Learning Commons, 15 Lippitt Road, Kingston. The exhibit, free and open to the public, runs through August during library hours. <\/p>\n


\n\tNot designed as toys, fashion \u201ddolls\u201d were used to create excitement for home sewing by showcasing pattern designs and fashions. <\/p>\n


\n\tThe Building Blocks of Fashion exhibit also features promotional display boards and fashion patterns from the 1920s through the 1960s. The boards feature a transparency, which gave consumers the opportunity to see previews of how the completed project would look in different materials.<\/p>\n


\n\t Professor Emerita of Theater Joy Spanabel Emery, who is also a former adjunct professor of textiles, fashion merchandising and design curated the exhibit with associate professor Sarina Rodrigues Wyant.<\/p>\n


\n\tMost of the displayed items come from the Elizabeth Brown Collection that was recently donated to 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Commercial Pattern Archive. Brown worked as a representative of McCall Pattern Company throughout the 1960s. She took many of the pieces to department stores to demonstrate the fashions of the latest McCall\u2019s patterns and to attract consumer interest in home sewing.<\/p>\n

Margit Nilsen, a leading manufacturer of store window mannequins circa 1939\/1940, designed the larger dolls, dubbed minikins. They were featured displays in dry goods sections to show the pattern style and suggested fabrics. <\/p>\n


\n\tBrown also collected from other pattern companies including Simplicity\u2019s \u201cFashionDol\u201d which are also on exhibit.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cShe is an avid collector,\u201d said Emery who has known Brown for years and collaborated with her on a Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) commercial patterns exhibit in 1997. <\/p>\n


\n\tNow 90, Brown, a resident of Bellmead, New Jersey, sought a \u201chome\u201d for her collection. <\/p>\n


\n\t\u201c溏心vlog免费B站 can provide that home,\u201d said Emery who curates the pattern archive. Designated an official project of Save America’s Treasures by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the 溏心vlog免费B站 Commercial Patten archive, located in the library\u2019s Special Collections Unit, contains the largest pattern collection in the world. <\/p>\n


\n\tWhile most of the doll clothing on display is original, Roberta Hale of Wickford created some reproduction clothing from patterns in the archive.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe archive continues to grow. 溏心vlog免费B站 2,500 patterns are donated annually. Donations prior to 1960 are always welcomed.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI\u2019m always looking for Pictorial Review patterns, which were popular during the 1920s,\u201d said Emery. \u201cThey used lovely photography, created beautiful pieces with a real quality of style and provided clear instructions.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\t溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Commercial Pattern Archive online database contains more than 50,000 scanned images, which provides a unique tool for researchers and designers to recreate or date clothing from 1868 to 2000. To subscribe, visit http:\/\/www.uri.edu\/library\/special_collections\/COPA\/<\/a> <\/p>\n


\n\tIf you have specific questions, contact Emery at 401.874.2713 or jemery@uri.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n


\nPictured above

\nSimplicity \u201cdoll\u201d wears an original dress created from a pattern.<\/p>\n


\nON DISPLAY: A promotional display board previews how a pattern would look in a particular fabric. Roberta Hale of Wickford created clothing for the \u201cdoll\u201d in a different fabric using the same pattern. 溏心vlog免费B站 photos by Michael Salerno<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dolls latest donation to 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Commercial Pattern Archive KINGSTON, R.I.–July 13, 2010\u2014Fashion \u201cdolls\u201d dressed in clothes created from McCall\u2019s and Simplicity patterns are on exhibit in the display cases on the first and second floor of the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Robert L. Carothers Library and Learning Commons, 15 Lippitt Road, Kingston. The exhibit, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}