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Sewing Trims
Trim or trimming in clothing and home decorating is applied ornament, such as gimp, passementerie, ribbon, ruffles, or, as a verb, to apply such ornament. more...
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Before the industrial revolution, all trim was made and applied by hand, thus making heavily trimmed furnishings and garments expensive and high-status. Machine-woven trims and sewing machines put these dense trimmings within the reach of even modest dressmakers and home sewers, and an abundance of trimming is a characteristic of mid-Victorian fashion . As a predictable reaction, high fashion came to emphasize exquisiteness of cut and construction over denseness of trimming, and applied trim became a signifier of mass-produced clothing by the 1930s. The iconic braid and gold button trim of the Chanel suit are a notable survival of trim in high fashion.
In home decorating, the 1980s and 1990s saw a fashion for dense, elaborately layered trimmings on upholstered furniture and drapery.
Today, most trimmings are commercially manufactured. Scalamandré is known for elaborate trim for home furnishings, and Wrights is a leading manufacturer of trim for home sewing and crafts.
Types of trimming include:
Bias tape;
Braid;
Buttons;
Cord;
Embroidery by hand or machine;
Gimp;
Lace edgings or insertions;
Passementerie;
Piping;
Ribbon;
Rick-rack;
Ruffles or frills;
Tassels;
See also sewing, tailoring, heirloom sewing.
Notes
- ^ See Jane Tozer and Sarah Levitt, Fabric of Society: A Century of People and their Clothes 1770-1870;
- ^ See Elizabeth Hawes, Fashion is Spinach, 1938;
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