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In October, Doug Gottlieb, a radio host and basketball analyst who'd decamped for CBS the previous month after nine years with ESPN, went on The Dan Patrick Show and dropped something of a truth bomb about his time in Bristol:
I was told specifically, "You can't talk enough Tebow." I would jokingly throw it into a segment. "I gotta find 15 seconds here to talk about Tebow, all right let's move on and talk about Major League Baseball."
Later, he said:
Is it ridiculous how much you have to talk about Tebow? Yeah! But for whatever reason people can't get enough of that story, and they kind of stoke the fire—that's kind of what ESPN does.
Gottlieb was referring to the network's yearlong infatuation with Tebow, a player who hasn't made much actual news since he was traded to the Jets in March. Bristol executives have decided that what we want—or what we should want—is Tebow. "They want to own the Tebow story," said Jim Miller, the author of the ESPN oral history Those Guys Have All The Fun. "They want to put their watermark on it."
This helps explain why, over the summer, ESPN dispatched veteran reporter Sal Paolantonio and a crew to cover Jets camp as if it were the run-up to the Super Bowl. ("ESPN embarrassed themselves," Dan Patrick, who spent 18 years in Bristol, said of ESPN's flood-the-zone coverage in Florham Park.) This helps explain why ESPN2's First Take referred to Tim Tebow more than seven dozen times in late May even though there was absolutely no Tebow news to report on. This helps explain why SportsCenter covered Tim Tebow's 25th birthday like a moon landing. This helps explain why it seemed perfectly reasonable to a SportsCenter anchor to ask in-studio guest Liam Neeson whether Tim Tebow should be the Jets' starting quarterback even though Liam Neeson had no clue what he was talking about. This helps explain how ESPN wound up breaking Tim Tebow news to, yes, Tim Tebow.
The story of how ESPN fell in love with Tim Tebow is really the story of a breakup, between ESPN and the business of reporting the news.
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The Tebow phenomenon—that is, the sustained celebrity of a football player of only moderate ability—says as much about ESPN as it does about the quarterback himself. For the better part of a decade, the narrative about ESPN has held that the integrity of the news operation is subordinate to the Worldwide Leader's business concerns. (Just think back to The Decision or to the Bonds on Bonds docuseries before that, the one that ceded editorial control to the Giants outfielder and left Pedro Gomez, ESPN's Bonds beat guy, pressing his nose up against his own network's window.) Given that ESPN has deals with nearly every major league—and ignores the ones with which it doesn't have deals—the question has become inescapable: How can the company produce honest journalism when it's in business with, well, everybody?
ESPN has proven it can—the coverage of the replacement-ref fiasco in the wake of the Green Bay-Seattle Monday night game was a high point—but in recent months something began to shift. There was Tebowmania, of course, but more quietly there were several incidents of journalistic malpractice that were notable not for the egregiousness of the crimes but for ESPN's total indifference to them (about which more later). We weren't the only ones to notice. A member of the newsroom was just as baffled as we were by the silence of a media company that blankets the office in memos at the drop of a zipper.
Why does any of this matter? For one thing, journalism is in the company's DNA. It's no exaggeration to say that the modern ESPN was built on top of its robust news division. When now-executive editor John Walsh—an editor at the Washington Post's Style section in its heyday, an editor at '70s-era Rolling Stone, and a founding editor of the short-lived, much-loved Inside Sports—arrived on Bristol's campus in the late 1980s, he declared that a strong newsroom would give the station the identity it had lacked to that point. As he staffed up, Walsh cared more about reporting chops than TV readiness: Andrea Kremer (hired from NFL Films), Robin Roberts (from local TV and radio in Atlanta), Peter Gammons (from The Boston Globe and Sports Illustrated), Jimmy Roberts (from ABC News), Chris Mortensen (the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The National). Print people? Some inexperience? Didn't matter. Talent did.
ESPN left its mark on the major stories of the early '90s—Pete Rose, Magic Johnson, the O.J. saga—and competitors noticed. They worried about ESPN's reach. Well, actually, not just its reach. They feared its audience and its journalistic chops. Here's The Franchise: A History of Sports Illustrated Magazine author Michael MacCambridge talking in Those Guys Have All the Fun:
[Former Sports Illustrated managing editor] Mark Mulvoy was just obsessed with whatever ESPN was doing. A lot of writers at Sports Illustrated couldn't understand that and asked, 'Why are we so worried about ESPN?' but to Mulvoy's credit, he saw that the paradigm was changing and the primacy that Sports Illustrated had enjoyed in the media world was being usurped by ESPN. And the reason was not because ESPN was a cable network with x number of viewers; the reason was Walsh had invested SportsCenter with a journalistic authority that had not existed before he got there, and that did not exist anywhere else where people did sports reporting on TV. Mulvoy was scared, and in retrospect, he was right.
David Hill, the longtime head of Fox Sports, has called Walsh ESPN's "secret weapon." Longtime Disney chief executive Michael Eisner, in his 1998 autobiography Work In Progress, said Walsh's hiring was one of the two turning points for ESPN (the other was getting part of the NFL's Sunday night package in 1987). Walsh's genius, in Eisner's estimation? He "recognized that it was possible to lure viewers to ESPN with strong reporting about sports, even in instances where the network didn't have broadcast rights to a big event," Eisner writes. And it helps when the centerpiece show, SportsCenter, runs three times a day. This seems obvious now, but think about how you watched sports at the time: You watched them live. ESPN provided a self-contained alternative—highlights, reportage, and analysis—without having to open its wallet to buy every "big event," though eventually ESPN would grow profitable enough to want to do that, too. It was a deliriously effective business model. Today, ESPN is worth $40 billion, about $5 billion more than the combined value of every NFL team.
"You can't say enough about how important their news operation is," said Miller. "If you take John Walsh and [director of news] Vince Doria out of its history, ESPN is a fundamentally different place. It's a less important place, it's a less successful place."
But that success has created problems for the newsroom, which operates within a distortion field that the company's size creates. Doria, for instance, recently suggested to media reporter Ed Sherman that passionate local hockey fandom "really doesn't transfer much" to the "national discussion," which overlooked the fact that ESPN is the national discussion. If the network doesn't talk about hockey—and the evidence is strong that, lacking an NHL television contract, it won't—the nation doesn't talk about hockey, either.
And how much power does the newsroom have, anyway? One of the SportsCenter anchors who hosted the bizarre Tebow birthday bash said that she wasn't that into the idea. But she didn't have a choice. Here's Sage Steele speaking to SportsBiz USA (emphasis mine):
When it's Tim Tebow, when it's Tiger Woods, when it's Brett Favre, the numbers are such they support the bosses' decision to do this stuff. Not all the time. We can sit there in the newsroom and argue all we want. Which many of us do. When they come out and say, 'OK Sage, fine, here's a rating,' what do I say? What do I say? I can't fight that.
Unfortunately, when we do stories in that manner, I can't argue with fans (who criticize ESPN). I can't. So hopefully we can squash all that talk and cover more teams…I agree with people who are complaining. But I also agree with our bosses who say, 'OK, it's the business. Look at the ratings. They might hate it. But they're still watching.' People might hate Skip Bayless. But they're still watching.
As a result, the steady stream of Tebow non-news is as much a part of ESPN's identity now as Chris Berman doing NFL highlights on Sunday night.
"It's great when they choose to flood the zone on a story that's really important—like the Pete Rose trial early in their history," Jim Miller said. "Nobody can do it the way they can, that's fantastic. But when they do it to a story that doesn't necessarily warrant the attention they're giving it, it gets confusing to viewers. It hurts your pedigree.
"It's kind of out of whack," he continued. "You risk losing an identity for a news organization that they've been building for 20 years."
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The story of ESPN's Tebow obsession really begins last year. In September 2011, ESPN2's First Take, having gone through several different lives (a faint imitation of a morning TV show, a debate-cum-variety show), went to an all-debate format starring former newspaper columnist Skip Bayless. This new iteration wasn't all that popular with other producers in Bristol, a source said, but the decision was made after ESPN consulted a focus group.
"We focus-grouped it to people and realized pretty quickly that viewers wanted debate," hot-shot First Take producer Jamie Horowitz told Men's Journal. "In particular, they wanted to see Skip debate."
Producers around the network saw it the same way a lot of us do: as willful crap. Staged disagreement. On the show, Bayless would be pitted against another panelist—often a black counterpart, including Stephen A. Smith, who is now the full-time co-host—and "debate" him or her, Crossfire-style, on the sports topic of the moment. Around the time that Bayless become the country's most visible and outspoken Tebow supporter—which ultimately spawned this abomination and the 4 million clicks that went with it—ratings for the show began to climb.
Before long, a source told me, higher-minded Bristol producers swallowed their pride and acknowledged that something was working. And the producers who really took notice? The ones who worked on the live morning edition of ESPN's SportsCenter, which runs opposite First Take. The morning SportsCenter's producers had a problem: First Take was eating into its ratings. In September 2011, the 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. editions of SportsCenter had 636,000 more viewers a day than the same time slot that First Take owned on ESPN2, according to data from Nielsen. Over the next six months, a period that stretched from Tebow's emergence in Denver through his trade to New York, First Take narrowed that deficit each month. By March, when Tim Tebow was traded to the Jets, the SportsCenter lead was down to 182,000 viewers—less than a third of what its margin had been.
A programming battle ensued. Morning SportsCenter producers "noticed that First Take was killing them in ratings with Tebow stuff, so they made a conscious effort to deliver more Tebow," the source said. "ESPN is a competitive environment and the competition between SportsCenter and First Take is very real."
It resulted in the sort of skirmishes that you might find ESPN fighting outside the company. At times, SportsCenter producers made sure that certain NFL analysts weren't available for First Take, the source said. When SportsCenter went all-in on Tebow during Jets training camp in a way, some folks in Bristol saw it as a move to neutralize First Take.
"Producers were looking to duplicate the success of First Take," said our Bristol insider. "Given what the ratings were, you would have been an idiot not to talk Tebow. Decisions to talk Tebow were conscious and deliberate."
A small, prideful ratings battle had metastasized around the network. ESPN had become the source for Tebow news, whether it bled into SportsCenter or into its various NFL shows or its Monday night pre-game show or its NFL reporters' Twitter feeds or its dot-com stories or its SportsNation polls.
And what dawned on a segment of the newsroom was something that would've seemed absurd even five years ago: Skip Bayless and Stephen A. Smith were indirectly setting the editorial agenda for the biggest platform in the sports world. As our source put it to me, First Take's ratings surge late last year "completely changed" the look of ESPN.
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Meanwhile, there were smaller moments that, taken as a whole, suggested ESPN was long past caring about its news operation. A litany:
• Our old friend, Sarah Phillips, was a weekly contributor to ESPN's website while also moonlighting as a sort of social-media huckster. The red flags were there when she was hired—a lack of experience, a trail of accusations in the message boards of the betting website where she briefly contributed—but she was given a column anyway because, as she put it, "they thought I was pretty, quick witted, and knew my stuff."
• Lynn Hoppes, an ESPN senior writer and former senior editor (he was the guy who recruited the scam artist mentioned above), was caught copying-and-pasting from Wikipedia and occasionally from press releases, too. ESPN called Hoppes lazy, but it turns out no editors over there could be bothered with updating any of his stories that we flagged. There are no editors' notes appended to Hoppes's stories; no corrections or links or attributions or clarifications. They exist exactly as they did before our initial story was published. He remains employed.
• In July, a German soccer player Lukas Podolski claimed that an interview posted to ESPN's Soccernet never actually happened. The story was removed from the web, and all Bristol had to say was that the interview was conducted by a "freelance contributor," and that the company was looking into "sourcing questions." A few weeks after the incident, I asked ESPN for an update; a spokesman gave me the same statement that was trotted out after Bristol deleted the story. Was the interview made up? Was it conducted when Podolski thought it was off the record? Who knows?
• Later that month, a SportsCenter anchor read on air, word for word, without attribution, something written by RealGM.com about Dwight Howard. An ESPN spokesman said steps were being taken to prevent it from happening again.
• Three weeks later, it happened again.
• In September, ESPN's soccer blog initially failed to credit an SI writer, who raised a small fuss over the omission. Poynter gave ESPN a slap on the wrist for that one.
• The same month, ESPN scooped itself when a video posted to ESPN.com broke the news that prized college hoops recruit Demetrius Jackson had elected to go to Notre Dame. The video was quickly yanked. Why? Jackson's announcement was scheduled to be broadcast exclusively by ESPNU later that evening—a staged event that for obvious reasons was more important to ESPN than the news itself.
These cover the waterfront of journalistic malfeasance: plagiarism, fabrication, a hiring clusterfuck, business decisions masquerading as news judgment, business decisions overriding news judgment. Taken individually, none of these missteps is pervasively illuminating. All newsrooms screw up. But here's why the recent incidents tell us lots about how ESPN regards journalism: nothing happened.
At any newsroom around the country, these dust-ups would prompt a self-administered proctology exam. There'd be earnest committee assignments, standards-and-practices reviews, a "Letter to Our Readers" or two. None of the mea culpas really matter in the grand scheme of things—mistakes will go on happening no matter how many seminars the Poynter Institute convenes on the subject—but the point is to let your readers and colleagues know that you're deeply concerned about these things, that somewhere a standard is being upheld. But if any of this were happening in Bristol, it would come as a surprise to the rank and file in the newsroom.
"What's funny is that as soon as the Steve Phillips [sex scandal] went down, they were very proactive about informing us on company policies and all that jazz," said one ESPN insider. "This?" the source went on, referring to Hoppes, Phillips, and the quote fabrication. "Crickets."
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"It is a business first and foremost," Bruce Feldman, a 16-year veteran of ESPN who left for CBS last year, told me. "The people who run the company told me as much when I was going through it with them. There's still an element of ESPN that does journalism and there are some people there who are really good journalists. But above all it is a business."
Feldman ran into his own problems with ESPN. (Long story short, for those who don't remember the "Free Bruce" episode: Feldman told ESPN brass that he was writing a book with then-Texas Tech coach Mike Leach. ESPN brass approved. Then when Leach decided to sue ESPN over its coverage of the Adam James affair, network execs ignored the fact they had given Feldman permission and suspended him. He chose to leave the network.)
"ESPN serves two masters—entertainment and journalism, information—and depending on the day, we're probably only serving one of those," said one ESPN insider. "We can't be purely journalistic because we have too many business interests with the subject we're supposed to cover objectively. But in a way, it's a copout. We move the journalistic line when it suits us."
And occasionally that line grades into incoherence. On Oct. 8, in anticipation of the Texans-Jets Monday night game, which was broadcast on ESPN, ESPN.com splashed a 3,100-word Skip Bayless story answering the question no one was asking: Why is Skip Bayless such a staunch supporter of Tim Tebow? During the pre-game show, there were segments devoted to Tebow. An ESPN New York Jets beat reporter breathlessly tweeted that Tebow was throwing more in pre-game warm-ups than he ever had before and this had to mean something.
What was it that Doug Gottlieb told Dan Patrick? He said "they kind of stoke the fire—that's kind of what ESPN does." That's not quite right, though. On this Monday night, ESPN didn't just stoke the fire. ESPN was the fire, the fireplace, the poker being jabbed at the coals, and the coals, too. The newsroom was covering a "story" that another wing had manufactured.
As Dan Patrick told Gottlieb: "They've lost that credibility, a large portion of the credibility of covering news. I think that it's now: 'What's trending?' Focus groups. You're trying to create things there."
In the end? Tebow saw seven snaps for a team that lost and fell to 2-3. During the game, ESPN's stat line at the bottom indicated that Tebow was 0 for 1 passing because a receiver dropped the ball. And it turns out he was throwing all those balls in the pre-game because he was a little bored. Game 2 of the Orioles-Yankees ALDS ran opposite the Texans-Jets game, but 14 million viewers tuned in to watch football anyway—about a million more than the Monday Night Football average. It was a bad night for journalism, but a good one for ESPN.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made it crystal clear Wednesday that the social networking juggernaut has a better working relationship with hardware giant Apple than it does with Web search leader Google. The 28-year-old billionaire said his company is working closely with Apple on applications for new mobile products. Google? Not so much.
"Our relationship with Google isn't one where the companies really talk," Zuckerberg told Wall Street analysts in a startling disclosure on the conference call following the company's earnings report. By contrast, Zuckerberg spoke highly of his counterparts at Apple. "I'm really happy with the partnership we have with them," he said.
With those comments, Zuckerberg laid down a marker in the escalating battle for Internet advantage between Facebook, Apple, and Google. The chips are now on the table; the war is on. Facebook recently launched a heavily-publicized new search product, which could pit the company against search leader Google. Facebook has over one billion users worldwide, but it hasn't figured out how to make money off those users as effectively as Google has done with its search engine.
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Facebook delivered a strong earnings report, especially in the crucial mobile space. In one year, the company has increased mobile revenue as a percentage of total revenue from 0% — nothing — to 23%. "Today there is no argument," Zuckerberg told Wall Street analysts. "Facebook is a mobile company."
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Facebook's ad revenue in the fourth quarter grew 41% to $1.3 billion. The company's overall fourth-quarter revenue was $1.6 billion, versus $1.1 billion one year ago. That topped analyst estimates. "It was a solid [fourth quarter] beat as daily mobile users outnumbered desktop users for the first time ever," Jeffries' analyst Brian Pitz wrote in a note to clients.
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Facebook still has a ton of work to do, but Wednesday's solid results indicate that the company is making progress with its strategy to generate revenue from mobile advertising, which is the next great tech battlefield in the war for Internet supremacy.
Wall Street analysts offered cautious praise for Facebook's latest performance. "Quarterly results may be choppy as Facebook optimizes for the long term, but we continue to believe that Facebook is in the early stages of transitioning its ad platform to better targeted social and mobile ads that will become increasingly valuable to advertisers," JPMorgan's Doug Amnuth wrote in a note to clients. "We would be buying any near-term weakness in Facebook shares."
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HOUSTON -- J.J. Watt swatted away passes, Arian Foster ran away from tacklers and the Houston Texans did just enough to knock Cincinnati out of the playoffs for the second straight year.
Matt Schaub made his first postseason start a successful one when Foster's 1-yard touchdown in the third quarter helped the Texans to a 19-13 AFC wild-card win over the Bengals on Saturday.
"The whole stadium knew we had to line up and run the ball and boy, he was at his best there at the end," coach Gary Kubiak said. "He's become a fine, fine player, and it just seems like the bigger it gets, the better Arian gets."
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"It's one step," Watt said of the win. "We know what it means, and we have bigger goals than that."
Shayne Graham kicked four field goals for the Texans, while Foster finished with 140 yards and became the first NFL player to have 100-yard games in each of his first three playoff games.
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Houston's offense had the ball for almost 39 minutes as it ate up the clock with a season-high 32 carries from Foster.
"We controlled the line of scrimmage, and any time we do that it's going to be hard to beat us," Foster said.
The Texans had trouble finishing drives and managed three field goals in the first half against the Bengals (10-7). Houston struck first after the break, with Foster scoring the game's only offensive touchdown to make it 16-7.
Schaub, who missed last year's playoffs with a foot injury, had an interception returned for a touchdown by Leon Hall before halftime.
"It was never easy," Schaub said. "Cincinnati is a great team. I made a turnover and gave them points. We just had to rally around each other and we did that."
Johnathan Joseph, a former Bengal, came up with an interception for the Texans, who kept Cincinnati without a playoff win since the 1990 season, the league's longest current streak.
Houston had struggled on third downs lately. This time, the Texans didn't let the Bengals convert a third down on nine tries.
The Texans rebounded from a terrible month where they lost three of four games and the No. 1 seed in the AFC playoffs. The win came in front of a record crowd of 71,738, including former Oilers great Earl Campbell.
"We like to run the ball and play good defense," Foster said. "It only takes one week to turn things around in the NFL, and we did that."
The Bengals couldn't do anything offensively before the break, and were outgained 250-53 in the first half. Dalton was 4 of 10 for 3 yards in the first half.
Schaub shook off his first-half miscue to finish 29 of 38 for 262 yards, and Dalton finished 14 of 30 for 127 yards.
The Bengals had a chance for a touchdown late in the fourth quarter, but Dalton's pass sailed just out of reach of a diving A.J. Green in the end zone.
"The offense didn't play as well as it could have," Dalton said. "You can always look back and say, 'What if?' "
Dalton's 45-yard pass to Green got Cincinnati moving in the third quarter and set up Josh Brown's 34-yard field goal. When Dalton tried to go to Green again, Joseph intercepted and got the Texans in scoring range again as the quarter ended.
In last year's playoffs, the Texans routed the Bengals 31-10, with Dalton throwing three interceptions.
The main difference in this one: Schaub was back in charge for Houston. Rookie T.J. Yates filled in for Schaub, got the Texans a win in their first playoff game, but couldn't take them any further.
On their second possession, Schaub completed an 18-yard pass, Foster had a 17-yard run and Keshawn Martin went 16 yards on a reverse, setting up Graham's field goal.
It became a pattern -- move the ball down the field, settle for three points. The fans started booing.
And then Schaub did the one thing he wanted to avoid -- he let Cincinnati's defense get its hands on the ball. Hall anticipated Schaub's throw, stepped in front and returned it untouched, high-stepping the last few yards, for the defense's fourth touchdown in the last four games.
"It's disappointing. I mean, we had a good year, but it didn't end how we wanted it to and how we planned it to," Hall said. "At the end of the day, they made the plays that won the game for them."
Hall also ran back an interception 17 yards for the only Bengals touchdown in a 13-10 win over Pittsburgh that clinched a playoff spot. It was the first interception return for a touchdown against the Texans this season.
Like the Texans, the Bengals ended the season by hitting a wall on offense -- one touchdown in the last two games. The offensive woes continued on Saturday when the Bengals failed to score a touchdown on offense again.
Game notes
Houston's 420 yards were the most given up by the Bengals in their last 10 games. ... Houston receiver Andre Johnson had four receptions for 62 yards to extend his streak of consecutive games with a reception to 99. ... Texans' LB Cameron Collins made his NFL debut on Saturday after being signed from the practice squad a day earlier. ... R&B star Brian McKnight sang the national anthem.


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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
French Darts: A Cautionary Tale
So, as you probably gathered from my post yesterday, I am quite pleased with the results of my first draping project. However, there were a couple, ahem, bumps in the road on the way to success. Can you spot the problems in the above picture? Because, seriously, they're about to poke your eyes out.
Please allow me to share the entire story.
French darts, as you may know, are diagonal darts side seam darts that start a couple inches above the waist and end near the apex of the bust. (Update: as some commenters have pointed out, my darts probably end too close to my apex, causing part of the problem. You can also shorten yours to a couple inches away if you're busty.) I chose them for this dress because they're very 50s, and they provided an interesting challenge as a beginning draper. Well, I had the darndest time trying to get the tip of the dart - at the apex of the bust - to lay smooth. My teacher Sharon eventually suggested that I do two French darts, one on top of each other to divide the dart excess. Did I listen, readers? Well, I did at first. But then when I was sewing the muslin up, I decided to go with just one dart. I tested it, and it seemed to be a-okay.
Fast forward to last Friday evening. I finished sewing the dress, pressed it neatly, and hung it up in anticipation to wearing it on a date with Jeff on Saturday. We had made plans to go to the delicious, fancy new burger joint in the neighborhood, and I thought I would kill two birds with one stone by wearing my new dress and asking Jeff to photograph me in it on the way out to dinner. Sounds like a plan, right?
Well. I got all dolled up, and we headed outside, where Jeff prepared to take a few shots of me. But he paused ominously, stared at my chest, and got a distinctly confused expression on his face.
"What is it?" I asked.
Jeff paused once again, as though weighing his words carefully.
"What?!" I shrieked, sweetly.
"Well, it's your dress. It looks . . . a bit . . .um," he lowered his voice to a stage whisper," . . . nipple-y."
Oh the horror! I felt so exposed out on the street! Jeff took the above shot and showed it to me on the screen. My French darts were, indeed, decidedly nipple-y.
It is at this point that I must explain my state of mind on this particular day. You see, there were (how shall I put it delicately?) certain monthly hormonal challenges I was facing. I did the only rational thing: I burst into tears and ran back upstairs to change my dress. You see, I was afraid that I'd ruined the dress completely by using one French dart instead of two. I did not really regain my composure until I was mid-chow through the most fantastic burger ever and realized I could at least try to fix the situation with some serious steam pressing.
And then, later, the real solution hit me: I had pressed the darts down. But the best way to press a bulky dart like a French dart is to slash it, trim the seam allowances, and press it open. I took this one step further and pressed the apex of the dart flat over one side of my tailor's ham with a lot of steam.
Hallelujah, the nipple-y dart problem was fixed. Here's a test shot from the next morning. (Seriously, I had just rolled out of bed. Hence, the whole . . . look.) But no dart-nipples! Yay!
So, the moral of the story is thus: French darts can be tricky. Always slash and trim them, press the bejesus out of them on a ham, and take some test shots to gauge your bosom situation.
Go forth, dear friends. And may your French darts always behave.
47 comments:
The other issue with darts, is that this one looks like it's just a bit too long. That will give the pointy problem you experienced.ReplyDelete
Oh, and the double darts your teacher suggested? I'm sure that she told you that too large a dart take up is hard to sew and avoid your problems.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 29, 2010 at 7:21 AM
I had no idea you could snip and press seams open on French darts! I am in the middle of making a new dress and have a new ham that I am yet to use. Thank you SO much for this wonderful tip. I'm only sorry that tears were involved so that you could pass on this lesson. Great rescue! And well done to your boyfriend for being brave enough to tell you the truth about a dress you had slaved over. We all need someone to give us honest feedback.ReplyDelete
Ahh. That just made me laugh out loud like a plump and jolly old man. so funny!!! Darts can be tricky little things... thanks for amusing me again!ReplyDelete
You can snip darts? I always have a problem with pointy darts even with decreasing the stitch length. I'll have to try to snip next time. Thanks!ReplyDelete
As a French, I don't see where the problem is if your dress is a bit nipplely :-)ReplyDelete
And the dress is gorgeous.
Anyway, I must say that the whole post made me laugh out loud, although I can understand you were not happy with the dress, especially at this trickly moment of your life.
Glad you found a solution you liked.
Had to laugh - poor Jeff having to explain the nippley problem!ReplyDelete
It looks great now anyway and another tip for us.
I need to find a way of collecting all your tips in a tipplet (?) file.
Ohhh, that's a great story! A bit nipply! fantastic! But after the moment of panic, you have worked it out nicely and the dress darts look fantastic!ReplyDelete
I love that you dress up, wear a dress and look lovely to go and eat hamburgers!
Your dress turned out beautifully! I find that a good way to avoid the nippley problem is to have the dart points end 1-2 inches short of the bust apex. It still takes care of the topological issues, but it avoids the "Hi-I'm-Gertie-and-these-are-my-breasts" problem.ReplyDelete
From the land of Been There, Done That. :)
didn't comment yesterday but the dress is gorgeous! congratulations on your first drafting / draping success! this post had me chuckling too - I've had similar experiences and will never, ever finish a dart on the 'apex' of anything. Your fix seems to have worked well though!ReplyDelete
One of my favourite words...
Great work and story!
Thank goodness there was no lining to grapple with!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 29, 2010 at 8:18 AM
Oh poor Gertie! I am so glad you managed to resolve the dart problem.ReplyDelete
I had something similar happen with darts on a dress that I made for my brother's wedding. I have to do a full bust adjustment on everything I make. The pattern only had a bottom dart. The bottom dart just wasn't taking enough fabric out after the adjustment so I added some small side ones.
It took a lot of playing around to make sure I didn't have a Madonna style bodice! But it was so worth it in the end!
Kudos to Geoff for being honest with you. My fiance is just as honest. Sometimes I appreciate it, sometimes I run off and cry too. I would always rather he say that something is not quite right than go out in public with a visible mistake, especially if the mistake is on my rather abundant chest!
Thanks for the sympathy and tips, all! Yes, you can slash open a large dart - and you should! Especially when a fabric is thick and bulky.ReplyDelete
Thanks, Nancy and GorgeousThings for the dart length advice. I went by my draping and patternmaking books which said a French dart by definition ends about 1/2 shy of the apex. But I now say screw that direction and I will be listening to you two!
- AnonymousJune 29, 2010 at 8:31 AM
I has a similar situation with darts last week. I was making a dress for my daughter. We didn't notice the pointy dart problem in the muslin but once the dress was completed she was mortified. (she is 17) I re-made the top using princess seams instead of the darts. It turned out great.ReplyDelete
Your dress looks wonderful and so twirlly.
- Marie-ChristineJune 29, 2010 at 8:34 AM
Actually, that has nothing to do with the Frenchness of darts. The real problem is that you should of course keep track of where the nipple is, but you need to draft your darts to some distance from it. At least half an inch, more like an inch for a substantial breast, as much as 2" for a large woman. Then you have no trouble.ReplyDelete
You can re-sew these ones to be shorter, you'll see the difference.
Although of course you should press French darts down, that's a separate issue.
Definitely don't end darts (of any nationality) too close to the bust apex or you can press, split and monkey around with the stitch length as much as you like and still have faux nipples. Or, y'know, space for your own nipples if you want to go full headlights.ReplyDelete
The dress is gorgeous, though, and looks amazing on you.
Marie-Christine: yep, a couple people brought that up too.ReplyDelete
But why is it a requirement to press French darts down?
You had me snorting my coffee this morning, Gertie! I was laughing with you, not at you. Monthly emotional scenes have been my specialty of late. I know just what that's like.ReplyDelete
I had the same experience with French darts, and ended up just never wearing the dress. It never ever occurred to me to snip them open.
One thing that helps make a smooth dart is instead of backstiching to secure it, leave the threads long and double tie them. But, everyone probably already knows that.ReplyDelete
I really enjoy your blog, thanks!
OMG, that story had me on edge! Now not to be critical, but don't you think a dress like that deserves more than hamburger -- albeit the very best hamburgers to be found? I do! ;)ReplyDelete
this is hilarious! i know exactly the feeling when your guys gives your new creation that look... and i have the same response, usually, hormones or no.ReplyDelete
thank you so much for that great info on french darts. i have a few pieces banished to the Back Of The Closet that are about to get a makeover!
Oh golly... I've had the "too nipple-y" dart problem before too! Usually with darts that are a bit more complicated/tricky than the usual waist-to-bust dart. Thanks for the reminder and tips (and good chuckle! ;)!ReplyDelete
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Excellent solution!! I'll def. have to use your tale of victory for future french dart follies!ReplyDelete
Nice save! I was reading in the current issue of Threads Magazine (which I was overjoyed to find stocked in the London branch of Selfridges on the weekend yay!) an article by Louise Cutting on "Better Basics" (not that that I'm saying that you need to brush up on your basics, just that's the title of the article), in it Louise has some top tips on darts, one of which involves not cutting them open - but using a strip of bias cut fabric seem along the dart to balance out the pressed-fold of the dart :). I cannot remember all the details of the technique (I'm at work now it's 4.16pm in the UK LOL! & my magazine is at home) but it's worth a look IMO if you can take a peak at the magazine in a store - the article starts on page 44. (It's the June/July 2010 issue no. 149.)ReplyDelete
P.S. I'm so glad that you "nipped" the little problem in the bud ;) LOL!
Best wishes,
Seemane :)
LOL! Darts are so tricky sometimes. I'm glad you were able to solve the problem without resorting to scrapping the project. The dress turned out lovely. :)ReplyDelete
Bursting into tears over sewing problems is normal behavior ANY time of month in my book! Your fix worked beautifully!ReplyDelete
Hey Gertie,ReplyDelete
I'm so glad you were able to solve the problem with a good steaming. It's so discouraging to have a finished project and realize there's something wrong with it.
I just happened to read Sherry's tutorial on French Seam Darts on her blog a couple days ago : http://buzzybeesworld.blogspot.com/2010/04/tricks-of-trade-french-seam-dart.html
I don't know if she does anything different than what you did but in any case, if people are looking for a tutorial this one seems quite helpful...
My solution has always been just to make floaty, "unconstructed" garments without darts. Yours is a much more responsible approach, Gertie. I admire your willingness to redo until you got it right.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 29, 2010 at 12:59 PM
I am so glad you posted this, lady. I saw photos of myself in a darted dress the other day and nearly fell over! Not sure I can press mine as you did, but at least I know a solution exists.ReplyDelete
That was very funny (and not because I'm laughing at your expense, but because you write a very amusing account of it)!. And full marks to Jeff for trying to be so tactful. My beloved would have had just blurted it out gleefully...ReplyDelete
And nice to see how you dealt with it.
P.S. And since Tina put up that 40s?/ 50s? advert on What-I-Found, I now know to call them "female functional monthly disturbances"...
hallelujah... u fix the darts beautifully. the dress is lovely. thank goodness your man told you the problem, my husband would have just went along with it thinking he's seeing nipples...lol. good jobReplyDelete
This has totally happened to me before! Thanks so much for sharing your tips and fixes. It's always nice to read stories I can relate to about sewing frustrations that happen along the way instead of just looking at pretty finished garments.ReplyDelete
THANK YOU! I have the pointy problem every time I put a dart in something, be it French or not. I'll definitely have to try the snipping & pressingReplyDelete
Hi Gertie, I have a question that has been bugging me. When you trim darts, do you need to finish the edges? It seems to me that you might not, because they are usually on an angle, but since I have never done it I don't really know.ReplyDelete
That did make me laugh, and at least you managed to fix it and end up with a lovely dress. I'm just about to start making my first ever dress, I'm going to go very slowly and I have to say your blog is very inspiring.ReplyDelete
Sometimes you just need to stop and have a good cry in order to clear your head. I'm glad you stopped to refocus and fix rather than chucking your beautiful dress in a hormone induced flurry. It looks much improved!ReplyDelete
I have a dress I bought -years- ago with this problem and wasn't sure how to get round it.ReplyDelete
Thanks for bringing the topic up... and flattening it down!
Although you drafted this yourself, vintage patterns tend to have the dart point closer to the bust point than modern patterns. I suppose this makes sense when you look at the shape of vintage bras!ReplyDelete
I often shape the dart - rather than sew a straight line direct to the dart point, I make a very slight curve towards the end that mirrors the bust. I did this on my recent 60's grey tweed dress because it was a bit nipply too!
Hilarious and informative. What else can I blog reader want? I am still laughing over, "...I shrieked, sweetly." Love it!ReplyDelete
- TeasippaJune 29, 2010 at 11:10 PM
I really enjoy your blog. Thanks for publishing it. Try curving your french darts as well as making them shorter. Try to sew a very very gradual point and then off the edge at the point. Then slash throught center and press open over your ham. This should solve the problem and it won't make a lot of difference whether you are darting an a cup or a dd cup. Happy Sewing!ReplyDelete
This post certainly made me laugh, but it also made me think - why am I not ok with my nipples being slightly visible through clothing? As a small-busted lady, I often eschew a bra in the winter months, as layers protect me from potential 'exposure'. But in the summer, when the heat means I feel least like having underwiring digging into me, I myself resorting to a bra to avoid revealing myself through flimsy cotton and see-through silk. It makes me wonder how bra-less women dealt with this problem in the 60s and 70s - were their clothes just less transparent?! I rather resent having my bust manipulated by lingerie to resemble Barbie's - smooth, rounded, nipple-less - and yet I feel uncomfortable letting the world see its natural outline. Anyway, thanks for sharing pictures of your beautiful dress, and for all your thought-provoking posts!ReplyDelete
I hate those type of darts!! At least, ever since last fall.... my brother got married, and while I wasn't in the wedding party, I was asked to do the music (I'm a musician by trade). So I made what was supposed to be a simple sheath dress that turned out to be anything but, and those darts were a HUGE part of the problem. It had both those and a longer vertical dart, and two muslins and a switch of fabric weren't enough to get it looking good in the bust area! I ended up going out to the thrift store and getting something to cover up the top of the dress with last-minute. I'm still strongly considering chopping the top off and turning it into a skirt, because that is the only way I am ever going to be able to wear that dress again.ReplyDelete
LOL LOL I have so been there. I totally get where you're coming from with this and of course your reaction is priceless. Thanks for posting the simple and quick fix!ReplyDelete
This made me laugh...thanks for sharing your sewing wisdom and lessons.ReplyDelete
Thank you for this story. It is adorable and as informative as it is entertaining.ReplyDelete
Gertie Dearest,ReplyDelete
I am inspired.
I am making a dress for my DG (that's Dear Girl) and alas the muslin's bust was too decidedly nipple-y. I was depressed, dejected, and defeated.
I was lamented the much-beloved curves, but I am no longer!
Your words have spurred me on, to adjust, adjust, adjust, and make just one more muslin.
Thank you, Gertie, Thank you.


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