Joann Lopez

tracey said:
So my full name is Tracey Peyton. I’ll send some sample pics of labels when I get a chance.
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Wonderful! Thank you!
 
Karen's Fashion Backward Shop said:
The dress in the original post looks almost like traditional Korean garb. Was your Mom influenced by that culture or maybe other Asian ethnicities?
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What was most important to JoAnn was the textiles used. Different textures and colors. Take Indigo, this is a color found all across the globe and used in different textiles but yet the same color, this is because Indigo is derived from plants found in every culture. So you can have different textures with the same relative color. I have attached a picture of a wall hanging my mom made that is all indigo.

The first dresses my mom made were for children, she used those patterns when she started making adult dresses. The yoke pattern across the upper chest allowed for heavier pieces to hang from it with lighter fabrics that flowed down from there. So, her patterns were more about how to carry the textiles incorporated into the finished piece. At the time, the mid 60's, shorter dress were popular so this is what she made, but then JoAnn started doing longer pieces... and I am quoting her, "hippy dresses for rich ladies."
 

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tracey said:
What was most important to JoAnn was the textiles used. Different textures and colors. Take Indigo, this is a color found all across the globe and used in different textiles but yet the same color, this is because Indigo is derived from plants found in every culture. So you can have different textures with the same relative color. I have attached a picture of a wall hanging my mom made that is all indigo.

The first dresses my mom made were for children, she used those patterns when she started making adult dresses. The yoke pattern across the upper chest allowed for heavier pieces to hang from it with lighter fabrics that flowed down from there. So, her patterns were more about how to carry the textiles incorporated into the finished piece. At the time, the mid 60's, shorter dress were popular so this is what she made, but then JoAnn started doing longer pieces... and I am quoting her, "hippy dresses for rich ladies."
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Here is an example of the construction JoAnn used early on. In the attached photo Sharon Tate, she is wearing a short dress with the yoke pattern across the top of her chest with light weight fabric flowing down. The piece in the original post of this thread is a much later piece.
 

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Note: The green fabric in the dress from this post was hand printed by my mom. She created the pattern and did the silk-screening herself. The dress was made around 1973.
 
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