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Fashioning the United Arab Emirates with Dr. Reem El Mutwalli, Part II

Dressed: The History of Fashion

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What Is the Art of Tailoring?

As a child, i would stand up and, like others that are of my age, and the lady who does the tailoring at home would measure us by hand. And with her palm opening, with her palms wide open, she would take measurements from my shoulder down to my ankles. These were the units of measurement. When they measured us, there were no measuring tapes. Woman did not read and rite. She keeps all these variations within her brain andd in her memory, and she knows how to create them. So she takes my old dress, folds it in the right way to cut the fabric, to use it as a pattern to cut the new fabric and re stitch it and

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