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02-17-2011, 01:58 AM
#361
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02-17-2011 01:58 AM
# ADS
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02-17-2011, 02:01 AM
#362
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02-17-2011, 07:11 AM
#363
Re: Muetzenfabrik
by
Friedrich-Berthold
This one is also very good and I just bought it. It contains an excellent and nicely written introduction to tailoring and its modernization for uniforms with the example of Peek & Cloppenburg...
The image with the patriarchal gentleman instructing the row of seamstresses has always been very striking to me. It is a posed photograph and the subject is the tall dominant man. The women passively observe in their rayon work frocks as he lectures them, his back turned, pointing out something outside the photograph and at great height. Perhaps it is a political lecture? There is something very sad about images like these, they are windows into a doomed society, one that dragged many lives down with it.
I apologize for the maudlin photo analysis. These women must have worked incredibly hard and had increasing pressure put upon them as the four year plan squeezed the quality and craftmanship out of these uniform items due to increasing war desperation.
Onto the RZM manual -- Imagine explaining its significance to a complete layperson, both to the period and collecting.
Maybe one day I shall gaze into its thin crisp pages and wonder at the words that will reveal scant meaning to my anglophonic self.
FB sir, your posts are not in vain and possess a splendid coherence! You excel at staying on message.
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02-17-2011, 12:42 PM
#364
Re: Muetzenfabrik
The Fuehrerprinzip in action, especially since the women at work at Peek & Cloppenburg represented the Nazi vision of female energy in service of victory in total war. The text of the volume is far more valuable than the pictures, but it is nicely written and of a genre that goes strong in Germany, today, that is vocational training that somehow aspires to pride in handicrafts and the role of the worker in the nation. None of it being at all really Marxist, but also not without the influence of the latter along with modernized guild pride. In this case, though, in the face of what is called "Americanization," i.e. "Fordism."
It is actually an interesting book and also a knock off in another way of other histories of uniforms through history of the era which are always interesting, too.
It is not a book for the website stitch fairies, archaeological fetishists, and internet pedants, but all the more valuable all the same.
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02-17-2011, 12:45 PM
#365
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02-17-2011, 08:56 PM
#366
Re: Muetzenfabrik
I researched the area of optical character recognition software recently. I hoped that technology might help with the task of digitising this wealth of information.
Unfortunately, most can't handle the Fraktur typeface at all well with the f and s problem being the major one. Then of course you've still got the translation problem with most computer driven translators spewing out jibberish.
Yes, I know I should just learn the language!
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02-17-2011, 09:53 PM
#367
Re: Muetzenfabrik
The UM is already digitalized, but the German is of a kind no longer really spoken. Nazi German and early 20th century German had its own special traits, which are are more and more arcane and removed from the language spoken today. Further, there is a specialized vocabulary among tailors and those in the textile trade that is present in many of these works, where things are a given among those who had the vocational training. We outsiders can only poorly comprehend same. The 21st century idea that there is a short cut to all of this is its own reward, dear readers. English may be the digitalized, globalized lingua franca of the 21st century, but it was not the language of cap makers in 1935 Germany.
If I am beating a dead horse, then maybe it reflects the years of lonely, unpaid, and unrewarded labor that enabled me to read this stuff now. No one was there in the 1970s and 1980s to reflect on this in a computer network. I spent a long time alone in book towers, in archives, in German universities and the like.
Did not Moltke say it best: "Genie ist fleiss!"
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02-17-2011, 10:33 PM
#368
Re: Muetzenfabrik
by
Friedrich-Berthold
The UM is already digitalized,
Not exactly FB. This is my area of expertise and there is a major difference between scanning a paper document to become a digital photocopy if you like and scanning a document that will wil turn it into a digital composite of separately recognised text and images. At the moment, the UM in digital format is nothing more than digital pictures of the original.
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02-17-2011, 10:36 PM
#369
Re: Muetzenfabrik
Good luck. I will leave all this to you. I am a man of the 20th century. Maybe you can make me a time machine, and I will return whence I came. The contemporary understanding of the parameters of knowledge is very alien to me.
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02-21-2011, 10:41 PM
#370
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