Senior ladies, what ever happened to darts?

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Senior ladies, what ever happened to darts?

Answer 1

definite, greater desirable than as quickly as, and that's an incredible question for bringing interest to it, for a fashion long it is long previous on, as a results of fact it nevertheless happens. perhaps it consistently will, from those specific styles of persons who do it. no longer in user-friendly terms adult adult males-to-women persons, the two -- over those self same years i've got heard women persons fantasize approximately adult adult males. i think of it' a solid theory to start the practise youthful, elevating little ones. that's a hard element to instruct. Such shady factors. The incidents I keep in mind are nevertheless stark, even with each and every little thing this time. I keep in mind my earliest and typical. It replaced right into a guy gazing me coming down an prolonged corridor, leaning against a door jamb. no longer something i could desire to do yet shop coming. by ability of the time I have been given there i replaced into so mad I pronounced something i presumed might embarrass him back, too youthful to properly known what to declare. yet he had a comeback that made me even madder, even nevertheless I merely saved strolling with that outrage. Now i comprehend what i might have pronounced if i might discovered early adequate. "Do you have a daughter you're elevating? A sister, a mom, a cousin you like? Do you seem forward to the day this happens to her?"

Answer 2

I think that 'ruching' might have taken the place of darts. I do like that look, especially in a blouse. I wonder how many of us mastered the art of 'gussets' in our sewing class. Personally, I liked the task of easing a sleeve into a garment.

Answer 3

Oh I thought bulls eye darts for points.The game. Gosh I remember darts. I always had trouble with darts. I had darts where there shouln't be darts. Could not get darts where there should be darts. I haven't even thought about darts in clothing. Come to think of it.

Answer 4

Shows you how observant I am! Ha! I never noticed the lack of darts and I used to sew a lot! I have to put 'darts' in my slacks due to small waist and ample derriere, but I never gave it a thought.

Answer 5

Darn, (pun intended,) I was just about to answer about my dartboard game proficiency. I hadn't thought much about darts in clothing for some time,,,but there was a time I threw a dart and mistakenly hit.... well another story for another time.



I just hope shoulder pads don't come back. The pictures I had to dispose of...oye!

Answer 6

Darts are fine for people with a good figure, the rest of us like things that hang ,speaking of clothes of course !

Answer 7

I never mastered the art of darts. Mine always puckered. Not a good look.

Answer 8

wow i forgot about those.. i remember they used to accent my curves and other places..



i have to go to walmart and look because now that i remember it was a great look ..



thanks for telling me

Answer 9

It's pretty simple... for about 30 years, the basic pattern used was what is called a "dartless" -- which works well for loose clothing and stretchy fabrics, The dart uptake (the part you sew out in a dart) was distributed to other areas of the garment, like a little into the shoulder seam, a little into the armhole, a little into the hemline.



When the styles switched to more body-conscious styles, darts or dart equivalents (like princess seams) came back.



Generally, the basic block (basic basic pattern) used for most clothes seems to switch about every 30 years.

In the early 1900s, avant garde clothing was "arty", like http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/images/h2/h2_1995.28.6a.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1995.28.6a&h=661&w=300&sz=49&tbnid=b6LxW3rKAkLncM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=41&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dfortuny%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=fortuny&usg=__0cfC8gfurnr9UdUx-jdyX4yyy2g=&docid=ddqDu7OrIYZlTM&sa=X&ei=FFD6T9SNDtT2rAGf69yMCQ&ved=0CH4Q9QEwBQ&dur=530 Fortuny; that held through the 1920s: http://www.vintagetextile.com/images/1920%27s/6955.jpg and then in the 30's, you started seeing dart fitting patterns again creeping in. By the 1940s, darts and seams that are hidden darts were in full sway, and that continued up to the mid 60s, when "hippie clothes" and knits took over in a big way, and we ditched the bulletproof bras and girdles...



Just another swing of the fashion pendulum.