Vintage Japanese Sewing Machines
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Make your own Paul Smith design
NEW YORK--Oliver Peoples, an eyewear firm based in Los Angeles, has entered into a licensing agreement with Paul Smith Ltd., a London-based men's wear designer, to manufacture and distribute an eyewear line.
The line of ophthalmic frames and sunglasses will bow next spring at the 1994 Vision Expo trade show here. The eyewear will wholesale from $60 to $125 and will feature unisex frames in plastic, metal and combinations of the two. According to Dore Chodorow, president of Oliver Peoples, a first-year volume projection for the line has not been determined yet. This will be Paul Smith's first eyewear line.
Paul Smith's many sub brands represent a British ideal of quality, craftsmanship and a fun approach to design. Starting out as a modest business in Nottingham, England in 1970, after a cycling accident put an end to his hopes of being a professional cyclist, his business has now grown to be an international success and he is perhaps a vanguard of something uniquely British. Many of today's most respected retailers and designers call him out as their starting inspiration for their own businesses. It was indeed his Floral Street store in London that started importing rare curiosities out of Japan, before this became a more tried and tested approach. Like wise his Red Ear range did the Japanese selvedge denim approach years before this became the standard that everybody looks to. For us simply, the selection we choose represents great quality and value for money with a level of detail often not found on younger labels.
Paul Smith says: Making a shirt is complicated. It takes a specialised factory months to develop even our simplest shirt pattern, requiring specialised press irons and sewing machines. Of course you can make your own shirt and there are countless patterns but, to be honest, for so much work they never look particularly good.
However, vintage shirts are cheap and easy to find, buy or inherit: they often still pop up in charity shops, too. The fabric quality tends to be excellent and the stitch size is small and nice. We spend hours each season looking into the construction details and techniques of old shirts - you can learn a lot from them. The one downside about cheap vintage shirts is that they are cheap for a reason! They never fit properly, as shirt fit has changed a lot, and men wear slimmer, shorter shirts now, with smaller sharper collars.
Today, you can see Paul Smith stores here and there especially all over the world. If you're planning to choose Paul Smith Jeans as a gift for yourself or families, you can also purchase online, just please visit the Paul Smith Jeans online store(http://www.paulsmithonlinestore.com) for more discounts and save your money immediately! Good luck!
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Could someone tell me about a vintage sewing machine I inherited?
It looks similar to the black Singer sewing machines that were made, but it's not a Singer. It has a metal plate on the face of the machine that says "Tailor Maid" on it. It also comes in a small table, that is tucked underneath the tabletop when it isn't in use. Someone told me once that it was a Japanese clone from WWII, and if that is the case, I was hoping to discover some history about it. Thank you!
There were millions of "badged" machines, mostly based on the Singer 15, imported from Japan after WW!! till the 60's.
Though it's not "your brand", here's a fairly typical tale of badged machines of the era:
http://www.doubleveil.net/zssmp/americanbeauty.htm
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