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What is Fashion Design?
It could be something as
grand as the top fashion designers in New York or Paris, who design some of the
most elegant clothing in the world using the best of fabrics, or it could
something as simple as taking a regular white t-shirt, ripping the sleeves off,
and ripping the bottom off, dyeing it light blue, cutting holes in it and
replacing the fabric with lace, and adding ribbons, buttons, and bows! Someone
seeing the results, and ordering 10 for her little shop. There..., I just became
a fashion designer!
The easiest way for someone to fashion design is to
do as described above OR take a simple pattern and add your own "thing"
to it. Here is an example. Jamie's teacher ask her to make her
an Indian dress for their skit of the "Lewis and Clarke expedition" they did at
school. Jamie took a very simple "night shirt pattern and transformed it to
this! The left picture is the night shirt and the right picture is the
SAME pattern, but the outfit was designed differently. First, for the fabric we
used ultra suede to look like leather, we made the sleeves, and hem longer, we
added a belt, and we fringed the bottom and sleeves to give the "Indian dress"
look. Pretty cool huh? Jamie's teacher loved her new dress!
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