Vogue magazine/ Carlos Pueblo

Vogue magazine/ Carlos Pueblo

Amy brought three pretty Vogue magazine back home the other day and I

read one book over, felt like a magazine of fashion, current day edition of

Japanese lady’s club magazine. Once my mother had a copy of such Japanese

book as a blue-print to make a few coats for her children. Amy agrees with me

and points out that one of our neighbor’s mother, at my mother age, had

been a career tailor and used such book for dress making and alternation.

This kind of career has been fading away for a long time since the garment

Industry and international trading; however, it is still alive in big metropolitan

area such as New York, Tokyo, and London etc. Alternator is still in demand

in Taipei, U.S. minority community, for example wedding dress. Once someone

is good at a sewing  machine, dress making and alternation become an art.

I have been very impressed when I travel via London Tube, subway, during early

spring. The lady passengers show off well tailor woolen coats with various colors

and designs.  You can see that in the Manhattan area subway. This is the fashion,

vogue, for a higher income society. If it is during the summer, fashion scenery

becomes more vividly all over the world. I like to wear suit to work because that

I have had such taste ever since college era. I had attended my sister’s wedding

in a rural area with my new custom tailored suit, made of imported wool from

Scotland via Hong Kong. I saved my hard earned pay of a private tutorship for

several months. I wear those for my early tenure in the U.S., then imported

suit and garment flood the market.

Tailor business has shipped out of the industrial nations and the traditional tailor

has been obsolete for a long time. Tailor is no longer a career which a woman can

choose for. I can name many of the career tailors in my memory at my early

childhood, yet only very few alternators at present especially in Houston.

I was on an AVE, a Spanish high speed train, from Madrid to Barcelona, I ran into

a Chinese lady alternator returning from her business service. Two years earlier,

I was on my way back from Leiyu Island of Kinmen, I helped a lady wedding dress

alternator carrying extra luggage home. She was pretty busy answering phone

calls for her customer’s wedding schedule. There is a Mrs. Lan of our friend who

has worked at Macy’s department store until her retirement. She is good at

tailoring. I went to Camden Lock, London and found an active old fashion store

with many Singer sewing  machine collection that reminded me the one which we

had at home when I was a kid.