Buying a tailsuit
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DancingMommy
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Joe said:
Actually, I couldn't afford wool, so I bought "suit" fabric. :shock: But I will definitely heed the advice about not cutting until the muslin is just right. I'd feel AWFUL!
Sania
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My former partner had a suit made by Onik. I spoke to Garo Ashikian (Onik) on the phone and he sent me a sheet for measurements. We had a local person take the measurements, and mailed or faxed them to him. He mailed back fabric samples with prices marked on them, we selected the fabric and mailed back the chosen sample, and the suit arrived a couple of weeks later, on time for Nationals as promised. The suit fit quite well. When my former partner quit dancing a few months ago, he sold it to another dancer. I found Onik's service to be very good.
DancingMommy
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etchuck said:
No, that would be the practice run I *already made* I kid you not! :shock:
Chris Stratton
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DancingMommy said:
Plan on making two or three suits minimum in real fabric before your are happy. I've made five in wool, and still need to do another. But I found a store where I get it for $3/yd
If any of you are ever in LA head down to B Black and Sons on 6th and Los Angeles They have a great end table of suit length cuts ( end of bolt sutff) you can usually pick up several pieces of the same fabric for very little ( comparitive to the regular price )
There is a cutters guide from the 30's I have tucked away somewhere hat has drafting nstructions for a tail coat. I plugged in some of the drafts into PAD ( like cad for patternmaking) and they came out pretty good its just they were designed for a different shape of men though this guide does have intructions for the various figure faults. I wish I could remember the name. Sigh I guess I should just find it.
P.S if something was printed in the 30's has its cpyright expired?
There is a cutters guide from the 30's I have tucked away somewhere hat has drafting nstructions for a tail coat. I plugged in some of the drafts into PAD ( like cad for patternmaking) and they came out pretty good its just they were designed for a different shape of men though this guide does have intructions for the various figure faults. I wish I could remember the name. Sigh I guess I should just find it.
P.S if something was printed in the 30's has its cpyright expired?
Chris Stratton
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tasche said:
No, unfortunately. Mickey Mouse was about to go public domain, and that couldn't be so they extended the term of copyrights yet again... Chances are most works currently in copyright will never be allowed to expire.
Chris Stratton
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tasche said:
Yes, but the law tends to be a rather blunt instrument.
tasche said:
If it's under "fair use" then it's probably okay. I'd have to see what the specific copyright code is, but it's what governs why some teachers got into trouble for their "coursepack" spiral-bound books in the mid-1990's. Obviously if you're not intending to profit somehow from the information...
Chris Stratton
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etchuck said:
You won't find "fair use" defined in statute, only in interpretations and precedent, and then only loosely.
Warren J. Dew
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Actually anything that's a violation when you profit from it is normally a violation if you don't profit from it; in either case, you're misappropriating the intellectual property in the eyes of the law. It's like taking a book from a bookstore without paying - it's still theft even if you then give the book away rather than selling it. From a practical standpoint, it's true that you're more vulnerable if you profit from it, but that's mostly because it makes it easier to prove damages.etchuck said:
Chris Stratton
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etchuck said:True... the wonderful ambiguities of copyright law. But I'm also sure that if there's no money in it, there's more likelihood that a copyright expires and everything else becomes public domain. Otherwise, the Mozart family ought to be financially covered.
To expand on what Warren said, neither profit potential nor even the possibility that a work has been abandoned by its owners has any bearing on the expiration of its copyright. I think the only area where abandonment was an issue was with soviet and similar works that weren't elgible for copyright until a recent treaty - there the owners had to publish some notification and warning before they could enforce their new rights over works that were formerly public domain in the US (big issue WRT to music of 20th century russian composers)