First sighting of duct-tape double?

[joy beeson]

From _The New-Way Course in Fashionable Clothes-Making_,
1926:


> Lesson 24: The Dress Form

> You are now going to learn something that has never been taught
> in any dressmaking course before. You are going to learn how to fit
> your own figure, without any outside aid whatever, without a dress
> form or a model lining. An ordinary shirt, a little gummed paper, and
> a little work and time—and you have before you a duplicate of your
> own figure with every little line and curve just exactly where it ought
> to be!

I found it at:
http://www.vintagesewing.info/1920s/26-FCM/FCM-24.htm


Joy Beeson
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[Penny Lemire]

joy beeson wrote:

>
> From _The New-Way Course in Fashionable Clothes-Making_,
> 1926:
>
>
>
>> Lesson 24: The Dress Form
>
>
>
>>You are now going to learn something that has never been taught
>>in any dressmaking course before. You are going to learn how to fit
>>your own figure, without any outside aid whatever, without a dress
>>form or a model lining. An ordinary shirt, a little gummed paper, and
>>a little work and time—and you have before you a duplicate of your
>>own figure with every little line and curve just exactly where it ought
>>to be!
>

Very interesting! Now, spin forward to today, when I found
at the hardware store "transparent" duct tape - very cool
stuff, and really duct tape, not plastic tape! From the old
gummed tape to a "crystal" double...

$.01

[SewStorm]

>Now, spin forward to today, when I found
>at the hardware store "transparent" duct tape - very cool
>stuff, and really duct tape, not plastic tape! From the old
>gummed tape to a "crystal" double...
>
>

Oooh, Penny, that IS cool! Thanks for sharing.

Karen Maslowski in Cincinnati