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From:

nickys

Not surprisingly the "lost art" is pretty well known in re-enactment circles.
Used for shaping garment pieces before during and after sewing. :-)

From:

foms

I am planning to share that link with a friend who is a recreationist, professional dress-maker and was once on the team of tailors for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police uniform service, if only to learn her reaction to "lost".

From:

foms

I thought that folks might be interested in her reaction:
"Great read, thanks for sending it! I don't imagine this information is utterly lost to everyone everywhere. But I am sure it is far far less easy to learn than it once was. Those pressers were so important (that was a specific job at the RCMP tailor shop when I worked there), but I am sure that those working at the dry cleaners were not paid anything like what western workers expect to be paid. With cheap clothes coming from overseas who wants to pay their value again in getting them cleaned and pressed?"

From:

channelpenguin

My grandmother (1918-2019) would have been very familiar with this. She was a dressmaker who got into the design and then engineering side. She made many clothes for herself, I recall.

Before the Wall came down, here in East Germany, I suspect the training of tailors/seamstress was pretty traditional - and there are still a much higher proportion of places to get tailored stuff made. In addition there's a large Vietnamese population, at least in East Berlin, who also have such places still - but I feel it's all kinda dying out except for wedding dresses, quirky kids clothes (looks like kids in Germany tend to dress like kids until a later age) and the odd high end online businesses e.g. jeans (which I'm tempted by as lycra makes things fall apart after a few years).