Re: [h-cost] making vs buying clothes
I missed the first post. What is RTW??? I used to never buy any clothing because I would always think...I can make that. But of course I rarely got around to it. Then another sewing friend of mine set me straight. Never make anything you can buy-only make those things that you can't buy. Thats has been my new motto for several years now, and has suited me well since I spend most of my sewing time doing historic stuff! You were lucky that you learned how to fit and sew. Most folks I know now only learned how to sew. If they didn't have a pattern for it, forget it...and I was never taught how to adjust a pattern as a younster sewing. I picked all that up much later. Sg Carol Kocian wrote: Fran wrote, 1950s dressmaking manuals told women they could make clothes that would look just like RTW, so they didn't have to admit they home sewed. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] making vs buying clothes
Lavolta Press wrote: I'm wondering, though, if anyone on h-costume is making RTW clothes for the boho market, perhaps selling on eBay? I'd think tiered crushed velvet gypsy skirts and tunics with bell sleeves might sell well this fall and winter. I can't compete with China, unfortunately. The RTW being imported is selling for less than my cost of materials. Dawn ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] making vs buying clothes
RTW=Ready-to-wear. I've pretty much quit making modern fashion clothes. My motto is, as well as making what I can't buy, to only buy things that I find interesting, as a process, to make. So I do almost exclusively historic clothes now . . . and, since I'm short, a lot of alterations of modern RTW. Fran Lavolta Press http://www.lavoltapress.com WickedFrau wrote: I missed the first post. What is RTW??? I used to never buy any clothing because I would always think...I can make that. But of course I rarely got around to it. Then another sewing friend of mine set me straight. Never make anything you can buy-only make those things that you can't buy. Thats has been my new motto for several years now, and has suited me well since I spend most of my sewing time doing historic stuff! ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] making vs buying clothes
It can be really amazing. I've been buying cotton gauze skirts from a Thai seller whose eBay ID is aonneo. He (or she? I can't figure out the gender from the name) sells them for as low as $8 apiece, never more than $15. It depends on the skirt style and how well the auctions are going. Shipping is very reasonable too, less than I've paid many eBay sellers for shipping within the US. And fast, and efficient. BUT, those are all thin cotton skirts . . . and I'm looking for velvet for fall/winter. Fran Lavolta Press http://www.lavoltapress.com Dawn wrote: Lavolta Press wrote: I'm wondering, though, if anyone on h-costume is making RTW clothes for the boho market, perhaps selling on eBay? I'd think tiered crushed velvet gypsy skirts and tunics with bell sleeves might sell well this fall and winter. I can't compete with China, unfortunately. The RTW being imported is selling for less than my cost of materials. Dawn ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] making vs buying clothes
Read To Wear. I make a lot of my own clothes. In fact I'm getting to make a wiggle dress. A lot of people in the goth and FrUiTs movement do their own clothes. DIY clothing is really making a heavy duty stand. I just wrote a really short blurb on it for my own zine I produce. Bice On 9/3/05, WickedFrau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I missed the first post. What is RTW??? I used to never buy any clothing because I would always think...I can make that. But of course I rarely got around to it. Then another sewing friend of mine set me straight. Never make anything you can buy-only make those things that you can't buy. Thats has been my new motto for several years now, and has suited me well since I spend most of my sewing time doing historic stuff! You were lucky that you learned how to fit and sew. Most folks I know now only learned how to sew. If they didn't have a pattern for it, forget it...and I was never taught how to adjust a pattern as a younster sewing. I picked all that up much later. Sg ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] making vs buying clothes
I've been thinking about layering the cotton ones, yes.
Although, as you guessed, I live in northern CA--San Francisco. I
believe it's been established that it was not Mark Twain who said that
the coldest winter he ever spent was a summer in San Francisco,
_somebody_ clearly did.
Fran
Lavolta Press
http://www.lavoltapress.com
Carolyn Kayta Barrows wrote:
BUT, those are all thin cotton skirts . . . and I'm looking for
velvet for fall/winter.
Does it make sense to layer one of these over what would amount to a
petticoat underneath? The underskirt would keep you warm and the over
skirt would look nice for both of them. I'm not usually a
skirt-wearer, so I don't know.
CarolynKayta Barrows
dollmaker, fibre artist, textillian
www.FunStuft.com
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Re: [h-cost] making vs buying clothes
If you see any velvet gypsy skirts (unworn, new) that are earthtones rather than jewel tones, lemme know. I agree about the price competition, but if it were something of higher quality (cotton velvet instead of rayon, or rayon/silk devore velvet), or different (interesting design and/or trimming), I personally would pay more. Fran Lavolta Press http://www.lavoltapress.com Dawn wrote: http://snipurl.com/hf4r $8. You couldn't buy the fabric for that little, never mind the work involved. http://snipurl.com/hf4t $24. Still a steal. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
