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Does Anyone Here Make Their Own Clothes?
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I've had some custom made shirts done on Holiday and now I'm kinda hooked on the whole custom made thing .. when I go back I want to design a whole load of stuff and get it made...
A suit and some trousers and more shirts - just the way I like them without collars and no pocket on the chest.
So anyone here make their own stuff and design it yourself or use a pattern?
A suit and some trousers and more shirts - just the way I like them without collars and no pocket on the chest.
So anyone here make their own stuff and design it yourself or use a pattern?
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Sounds good but I'd kinda like to learn how to make something myself .. Men clothing is often techincally crap.
Like you have trouser pockets and they're fine until you sit in your car and then all the money slids out of them - Marks & Spencers trouser pocket are like that all the time - don't know why no one ever realised that!!
Also doing it on holiday is so cheap - my shirt's costed like £3 to £4 for the material and £1 for the stiching - and the most amazing thing is they never need to be ironed!!! I can stick them inthe washing machne - hang them to dry and not a crease on them ... I wore one on the plane home and sat in my seat for 8 hours and not a crease when I got up!!!
I also like the custom lengt cos standard off the shelf shirts are too long for me to wear my shirt hanging out - but the custom ones look really nice and well fitted!!
But I want to go next time with some designs - if you show them what it's supposed to look like they are very Good at making copies.
Ive made some stuff before because i do textiles at school. Its quite enjoyable really when you know what you want to do.
What kinda stuff do you make?
I'd love to learn to make a whole suit or something .. but think that's way too complicated.
I've made T-Shirts - but really I bought plain white ones and deisgned something on my Pc and printed it on transfer paper that you iron on. I made alittle version for my friend's 3 year old son with his picture on it - he loved it!!!
I saw this programme on Hollywood fashions and in one shop they were selling hand made t-shirt for $1,800 each - they said they took 20 hours to make - but that's like $90 per hour!!
I think Men's shirts could do with a bit of spice up - there's lots of patterns and colour to choose from - but the cut of men's shirts are pretty bog standard and they're not really designed to be worn outside of the trouser.
Is there any kind of software for design cutting patterns?
Most material shops sell pattern pieces if you ask...
Like Em, I did Textiles at school, but never really got on with making clothes. I tried, but found it complicated. I much prefered making up my own designs completely from scratch and making those, so tended to make soft furnishings or other textile products, and stuck with that through to my coursework and final exam.
Yes, but it's really expensive as far as I know. Generally only used in the industry, so styles of clothing can be changed easily, and nests of sizes can be made up. Then the computers link up to the cutting machines to cut the fabric and so on.
I don't think there are any more commercial design packages for clothing.
Ilora x
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i bet i could have done it for £50.
yes you can buy pattern making software, but it's SO ridiculously expensive, and usually not designed for home PCs.
go to an evening class and learn pattern cutting and dressmaking. it's usually only about £30 and you'll have all the skills you need.
alternatively you can try to teach yourself from a book. 'metric pattern cutting' is the best, by winifred aldrich (i think). but it's really hard to follow without any prior knowledge of pattern cutting.
for a beginner, the best thing is to stick to commercial patterns until you have the skills to design your own.
it's not as easy as it looks....
wow... that's really good ... and it looks like the sort of thing that would suit you perfectly!!
Actually I'm sooo lazy - I'd love to design things but when it comes to the cutting out and stitching I'd be so useless!!!
When I designed my shirts I told the tailor how I wanted everything and his sewing dude did everythng ... it's amazing though if you're lucks in how fashion can take someone from an orindary person into an icon like armarni or something. I mean the guy set out to be a Doctor but he fainted at the sight of blood so turned to clothes design!!
Has anyone ever seena double layered shirt before? I'd love to try and have one made - i mean using two layers of frabric instead of just one - so it's less see through and so the frabiac cascades to give a different effect from a single layered shirt?
many years ago my mother bought me a slightyl off white silk shirt - was lovely - until I wore it and realised you could see my nipples - anyway one day i thought let me try and wear it and I got pinched - so I never wore that again!! Wish that was double layered would have looked so nice!!
I'd also like to make a shirt out of two different colour frabric - like this guy had on .. although he's actually wearing a white shrt and like a big waist coat.
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~om/images/anuj2.jpg