I've also been uncomfortable with her attitude towards fast fashion. I completely agree that it's very harmful to the planet, but the one thing that people completely gloss over is that it's the only thing some people can afford. You can go on and on about how it's better to save up and buy better quality pieces that are easier on the environment, but at the end of the day many, many people don't have that option. Or can only do that with odd things here and there, not their entire wardrobe. It's especially infuriating seeing as it looks like she and her family have a *lot* of money. she is going to bump into Cathy at an event in the spring and it will be AWKWARD. Possibly cause drama on social media. There’s also this quote of his: “Between one-third and one-half of all Aes Sedai (possibly somewhat more) are either gay or (mainly) bisexual to one degree or another,” the author said in his notes on Aes Sedai. “This is in large part because relationships with men are exceedingly difficult: men age and die, [and] many men find a relationship with a woman so powerful difficult.” Pillow friends are not just good friends. Oh, they are that, too, but they also get hot and sweaty together and muss up the sheets something fierce.”

srsly. How has not a single fellow high schooler/university peer not broken the silence or shared *anything*?? May I ask why you think BB will postpone promoting her book? It's in her interests to get as many sales as possible. In terms of her isolating and cutting people out... that's something that is really common for people who put on such extremely curated personas. People before have mentioned she was so very different as "Erica" and I'm sure her rich girl- modern fashion student living it up in New York was very different from this weird Historian personality she adopted out of nowhere. Maybe she's managed to keep it super secret from day one of her youtube channel (which makes it more suspect that she grew organically) but it doesn't really seem like she has much of a circle of people from her life before the hobby. This was such a weird random video out of context. Either I missed something but I didn't understand what project the cape belongs to or when it was started. Maybe it was part of the project she didn't share because of the strike? Or more it feels like the ad was on a schedule and she had to have a video just to keep to it.burn test for fabric. When you get gifted or find those estate sale fabrics to tell what they might be. It's pretty on par with Americans. The US is a relatively "new" country (even though, you know, it was already settled pre colonization). In other countries, they reuse things and use things, even if they're old. In America, rather than upkeep it, we'll just demolish it, donate it, or throw it out and get something new or more convenient.

Be aware that the author is a proponent of hand sewing everything, and if you want more information about making something using a machine, this may not be the book for you. You can certainly adapt this guide to using your machine, but that's not the audience most of this book is written to. I just opened YT to see that Bernadette has a new video on redesigning HR book covers. I haven't really watched her in at least a year, but I remember having a discussion about her doing this before. Afawk, she's not an HR reader and likely not hip on knowledge about the history of book covers and trends over the past 30 years.

So fast fashion is an historical development? BB doesn't seem to know that. Neither did I, but alas I am not a Dress Historian (B.A., pricey drama school, 2017). a b Gioia, Michael (8 December 2014). "Morgan James, Taylor Louderman, Derek Klena 'Preview' Disney's Low-Budget, Broadway-Bound 'Frozen' Sequel (Video)". Playbill. Archived from the original on 1 August 2016 . Retrieved 15 December 2020.

So have done a deep dive on all of these threads my eyes are square and uni work lingering. However, one of the biggest things that has annoyed me about the old machines us this treatment of them being so precious. Same with CH tbf. Oh let me send it off to a specialist. The old machines are nearly indestructible. Why not have a go and see how they can be adjusted and video a fun exploration of how machines barely changed for nearly a century (handcranks still available in the 1970s). I was so worried when I got my first old machine, until I realised people literally dig them up from their gardens and get them working again. There are MILLIONS around the world. Its not that precious!!! Mason, Jessica (2 October 2020). "YouTuber Breaks Down Five Movies That Nailed Their Historical Costumes". The Mary Sue. Archived from the original on 4 November 2020 . Retrieved 13 December 2020.The Christmas video has really thrown me! How can anyone, in this day and age claim to know nothing of Christmas and all it’s traditions?? I used to really enjoy her posts and her obvious talent, but to claim she has no knowledge when it is quite easy to google and find that she has a very privileged upbringing with her parents having an article in the New York Times boasting about the size of their closet and how most New York apartments would fit into said closet! Mother is successful real estate business owner and father a builder. Sister is also very successful with high powered job in NY! It is unfortunate that she has chosen to ‘act’ in this way as I can now only view her as a historical interpreter, not dissimilar to the Mrs Crocomb that she often raves about! Case in point from earlier this week: her Insta stories about schooling the people who send her mail, and how dare they think she would touch anything their common hands would send to her. She cannot get out of her own way. She is a rude snob. The mending section does a very good job of explaining darning and patching, but how about tears along seams? What about how to handle worn-out sections of a garment? Isn't that a big part of making something last, of sustainably maintaining clothing? Again, I would have liked a bit more about how to maintain clothing. (There was nothing about stains--hiding them can be a sewing project worth doing.) In regards to why they'd buy the book in the first place, either they didn't and they're just trying to post their fake outrage.. or it's the same as the guys that send her creepy messages thinking she's some sort of conservative girl because of her style. They literally don't actually pay attention to her content, just view it very casually on occasion. Same as the people who are fans of Star Wars and the vast majority of sci-fi/ fantasy but are gatekeeping bigots to their fandoms I don't see how that says anything about her. If she didn't read the books, she likely doesn't know anything about the changes. Frankly, I think just enjoying a show is a petty reason to criticize her. I couldn't get through the A Song of Ice and Fire books but I loved Game of Thrones and didn't hate the last season. It happens.

In addition to rediscovering the methods by which clothes were made in the past, the Bernadette Banner YouTube channel seeks to explore how we in the 21st century can learn from and adopt historical sewing techniques and attitudes towards dress in an effort to fight the effects of fast fashion and mass manufacture. I have very mixed feelings about her. On the one hand, there's no denying her talent. I've watched her videos on corset making several times, and I love that one about adapting an 18th century dress into a modern summer dress. And she does really seem to do her research, unlike some other historical costume bloggers (looking at you, Angela Clayton). To me it feels like her main occupation isn't yt now (or at least not her yt channel) because she seems busy but it's not anything that ends up in the videos.

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She has the info, she just... wants to re-invent the wheel and do it her way?? I don't know anymore. She used to be about trying out the historical techniques. This is from someone that wrote a sewing manual... I don't know. Yikes. She's more pretentious than the average bear isn't she... She used to go by 'Erika'? Is this a Graveyardgirl-esque 'Bunny' situation? I found her pretentious from day one but theres actually quite a bit that bothers me about her. The Christmas video was the last straw though, there is no way that she doesn't know anything about Christmas. She idolizes the Victorian era and that is when Christmas was born. Regardless, she grew up in America with access to the internet and therefore its impossible that she didn't witness any aspect of Christmas. It's a great point that the Christmas confusion doesn't make sense given how UK obsessed she is. I still don't understand how she grew up in America and claims not to understand basic information about one of the country's biggest holidays.