Comments on Hungry Zombie Couture: Made in Japan

Shannon: I bought a couple of Japanese books, Sim...

2008-05-29T15:53:00.000-04:00

Shannon: I bought a couple of Japanese books, Simple Chic and Polka Dot, or something. I made my daughter a dress and myself a blouse. With your sewing knowledge, you won't have any trouble at all. I managed to grab one of the last three books available, thanks for posting about it.

These sites might help: http://movinghands.wordpre...

2008-05-28T19:42:00.000-04:00

These sites might help: http://movinghands.wordpress.com/japanese-sewing-and-pattern-terms. And this one: http://www.tata-tatao.to/knit/japanese/e-JapaneseEnglish.html is for knitting but some of the terms might be the same.

Shannon, these are lovely and seem to suit the sty...

2008-05-27T11:48:00.000-04:00

Shannon, these are lovely and seem to suit the style you maintain. Some of them were sort of "Wallis Warfield Simpson" before she became the Duchess. Lovey stuff.

Shannon, I have been toying with buying one of the...

2008-05-26T20:32:00.000-04:00

Shannon, I have been toying with buying one of these Japanese syle books so I'll be watching your porgress. I would fit into the medium range, so I'll be interested in the general arm, neck, shoulder fit.
Marguerite

I'm so glad you liked this book! I have an extensi...

2008-05-26T20:27:00.000-04:00

I'm so glad you liked this book! I have an extensive collection of japanese books and I'll be happy to give you some insight on the most interesting ones! I have some experience with Mrs Stylebook magazine, which is also written in Japanese, and I was able to figure out most of the instructions by following the linedrawings (these japanese books are very well illustrated!)

http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done...

2008-05-26T08:53:00.000-04:00

http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=bf-home&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fhungryzombiecouture.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F05%2Fon-tip-from-tany-i-purchased-japanese.html&lp=en_ja&btnTrUrl=Translate

Here's a Japanese translation of your blog at Altavista Babelfish.

Here's how to get started:

http://babelfish.yahoo.com

I've translated a lot of Cyrillic Russian over there and it's pretty good most of the time.

also try googling japanese characters for the computer keyboard.
Hope this helps.

Yay! The Japanese are small people so this makes ...

2008-05-26T07:56:00.000-04:00

Yay! The Japanese are small people so this makes sense. While I love BWOF, many of the styles I like start at a 38, which I have to grade down a size or two. Patrones is the same, unless I can get the "Joven" issues which start at their size 38. Now I must add this to my list of things to buy.

You need a Japanese-English dictionary so you can ...

2008-05-25T23:41:00.000-04:00

You need a Japanese-English dictionary so you can translate the katakana. If you look closely, you'll see there are three "forms" of Japanese writing. One of them is called katakana. It is mainly words from english that the japanese have translated because there is no Japanese word for it. I bet a bunch of terms in your book are english words that have been translated. For example, the first three characters of the title of your book are "re" "to "ro". If you say it fast it sounds like "retro". The Japanese language didn't have that word so they made one. The other characters are kanji and much harder to translate. Any of that square-ish, angular writing is the katakana.

Hope that helps a little.

I bought that book too when Tany posted about it. ...

2008-05-25T23:17:00.000-04:00

I bought that book too when Tany posted about it. I haven't make anything yet (of course )!

I know that what you end up making will be breatht...

2008-05-25T15:20:00.000-04:00

I know that what you end up making will be breathtaking.
I'm glad you're able to find sources that work for your sizing.
I'm on the other end of the spectrum. Most Marfy patterns come up to one size smaller than I need, so in order to use them I need to grade up, and of course make everything longer.
It's a pain.

another magazine I've never heard about, thanks fo...

2008-05-25T13:19:00.000-04:00

another magazine I've never heard about, thanks for posting it, I love to see what people make using the foreign magazine, can't wait to see what you chose to make

Shannon - isn't there a folder on SG that does Ms....

2008-05-25T12:47:00.000-04:00

Shannon - isn't there a folder on SG that does Ms. Stylebook and Japanese translations? And I think a Yahoo group too...maybe you could ask at SG?

...and I NEED to see some new clothes...anything coming out of the studio?

Shannon, the gals over at the "Zakka Life" and "Lu...

2008-05-25T12:39:00.000-04:00

Shannon, the gals over at the "Zakka Life" and "Lunch in a Box" blogs both read Japanese and may be willing to help. Biggie at Lunch in a Box is, in fact, a translator in real life.

http://zakkalife.blogspot.com/
http://lunchinabox.net/

Melanie

I notice too that BWOF seems to like to start at a...

2008-05-25T11:51:00.000-04:00

I notice too that BWOF seems to like to start at a 38 (which is fine by me since it's my size). But, I have petite friends who sew who have to grade down. A lot.

I have to stay away from the Japanese craft sites. I'm already a MSB buyer and have yet to make a thing.

But, their retro inspired stuff is so pretty! I'm going to have fun watching you.

oh, and my student Japanese craft book translator ...

2008-05-25T11:16:00.000-04:00

oh, and my student Japanese craft book translator graduated yesterday! sniff. :)

Ooh, that looks like a great book! I keep collect...

2008-05-25T11:14:00.000-04:00

Ooh, that looks like a great book! I keep collecting these, but have only used them as inspiration as I am not of small stature! But, they were lovely, lovely eye candy.

Have you ever used yesasia.com? If you have the ISBN, it's pretty easy to navigate & find what you're looking for (& generally cheaper too.) It takes about 2 weeks to ship, but I generally save about $5-10 US per book vs. the ebay seller, so its worth it.

Also, check out this site:
http://japancouture.canalblog.com/

These girls actually make a ton of stuff from the Japanese fashion books & the blog is easy to find projects & ISBNs. It's in French, but I use the google tranlator to translate the page if I need to.