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The Diagonal Grain: The Bias Cut and the Invention of Modern Drape
Cutting cloth at 45 degrees to its weave — the bias — turns fabric from a surface that hangs into one that clings and moves, a technical discovery Madeleine Vionnet turned into a language in the 1920s and 1930s.
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