They offered training courses on seven trades which include tailoring, dress-making, embroidery, electronics and mobile repairing, electrical house wiring, basic masonry, plumbing and pipe-fitting and motorcycle repairing.
Both designers were into fur, asymmetrical pleating and tailored dresses so tight they looked pasted on.
Its popular ankle boots will be reduced to $195, along with items like crew neck sweaters and tailored dresses.
His polished skirt suits and tailored dresses were a hit in local political circles and later caught on in Washington.
The alternative to sweet florals was white: short lace dresses or occasionally the same sleek shape for more rigorously tailored dresses.
The other room's display is the opposite of sharp and sexy: tailored dresses and coats, showing the designer's realistic side, with the clothes so beautifully made.
Designer in residence Mr Christian (mr-christian.com) produces bespoke tailored dresses, consulting and sketching on the shop floor as well as blogging the results.
"Shorts are a serious trend," said Stephanie Solomon, a Bloomingdale's executive who, for the record, favors severe tailored dresses from Gucci or Narciso Rodriguez.
The well-known portraits are of women, or more accurately of their hair and clothes: the lacquered beehives and tailored dresses that were the uniform of 1960s suburban America.
For "Sugar," the 1972 adaptation of the film "Some Like It Hot" — about male musicians hiding from the mob in an all-girl band — Mr. Colt tailored dresses to shape Robert Morse and Tony Roberts.
The character of Betty Draper in Mad Men – overgroomed blonde hair, mental fragility, love of horseriding and tailored dresses – is surely a copy of Tippi Hedren's kleptomaniac in Marnie.
