YouTube video by Lisa Sorrell
Notes
- family shoe business
- worked a curved-needle at 11 years old
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Cordwainers College at 17 or 18
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Pattern Cutting Step-by-Step
- patterns in factories
- first copies were photocopied, plastic spiral bound
- sold enough to do a print run
- become the standard textbook
- mostly colleges and students and hand shoemakers
- most factory pattern cutting computerized
- special: 440 diagrams, almost for each step
Frank Interviews Lisa
- how got into shoemaking
- sewing from young age
- got bored
- answered ad for stitching boot tops
- had never worn cowboy boots
- alcoholic who cussed
- stayed a year and a half
- wanted to say he knew her before she was famous
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