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.
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.
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
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.
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,
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
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
