Designing AND
Sewing Your own Clothes and Costumes
There are stages that
one must go through for designing and making your own clothes.
First, one must draw a sketch as seen above on the left. After watching
"Gone with the Wind", Jessica wanted to make a long gown with ruffles in
pink and trimmed in black lace. She drew her designs on paper first.
Then we found a similar pattern at the store. We made pattern
alterations to fit her needs and wants of the type of skirt and the "look"
that she wanted. Then we cut, pinned, and sewed the Victorian or
civil war era skirt together.
One of the BIGGEST benefits of
designing AND making your clothes is NO ONE else has them. If you
designed it and made it, no one else will be wearing it!!! Plus you
get the added satisfaction that your are not just a seamstress but a
designer too!!!!!
Let's look at different
sketches
This sketch has a body to it, or a figure.
See the head, arms, and legs, this is a body sketch, with a design drawn
on the body.
This sketch has no body parts, just the sketch
of the costume that the designer wants to make. Both sketches are
appropriate, neither is wrong or different.
