| BOY DRESS DESIGNER 11-year-old Leslie Gordon sketches fashionable clothes, cuts out fabric and sews. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 7144 |
| Catalog #: | 102395 | |
| Clip Number: | 102395-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | NP 297 | |
| Timecode: | 01:44:18 - 01:45:30 | |
| Location: | London | |
| Year Shot: | 1950 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | AGE GROUP/CHILDREN: Working BEHAVIOR, HUMAN: Gender roles FASHION: Design INDUSTRY: Textiles OCCUPATIONS: Tailor / Dressmaker / Milliners / Cobbler | |
| Description: | London. Various shots of a boy dress designer, 11-year-old Leslie Gordon at work. He sketches ideas for ladies' fashions. CU Sketches on table pan to CU hands drawing on one sketch. CU Hands sketching woman's dress. CU Leslie Gordon. Cuts out dress shapes from fabric, using a pattern. CU Cutting paper pattern. CU Cutting out material from pattern. MS Pinning material together. He pins the pieces together, then sits at a sewing machine and starts to use it. CU Boy's face. MS Sewing material then walking out of frame. MS Sewing machine on bench boy sits down and starts to machine. CU Hem of dress on small model pan up to show full-length wedding dress. LS Boy working amidst clothes model in wedding dress in background. We are told his only guidance in this interest has been in machining, taught him by his tailor father. C/U of a small scale wedding outfit he has previously made on a doll. We then see Leslie looking through several small and full-sized garments he has created, with the wedding doll in the background. | |
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