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Never been into fashion?

Me either, but weird thing. I was recently struck with the half-serious idea to make some of my own clothes because I got to thinking about things I want my clothes to do and how they should look, but literally NOBODY makes clothes that way. Maybe I should? Couldn't hurt I guess.
Serenitree · F
My granddaughter makes a lot of her clothes for the same reason. And to economies, she goes to thrift shops and finds different clothes with the types of materials she wants and cuts the bits and pieces from them. She likes some things to look patchy, rough and smooth, light and dark, shiny and matte. Or she will find the perfect look, but not quite the cut she wants so she takes it home and reconstructs it to suit her. What can I say? The girl is an artist. Makes her own jewelry too, and she's a talented painter.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@Xuan12 Hancock's was number one here, Walmart sells fabrics once again but they don't have the variety that Hancock's had, there's Hobby Lobby & Michaels & Joannes in the mall though. Garage sales can be a good source of fabrics if you bring a tape measure to measure the length and width of the pieces.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@Serenitree consignment stores are fly-by-night though, it's usually the people who bring in their clothes to sell at those stores that end up losing big time.
Serenitree · F
@cherokeepatti I never really went into consignment stores myself. No special reason, I just didn't.
I've been learning to sew my own clothes for similar reasons.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
I used to sew many of my clothing items, I could customize with stitching, embroidery, select fabric colors and patterns that I wanted.
Xuan12 · 31-35, M
@cherokeepatti Have kind of weird inspiration. I went on a super-long hike, weeks long, and my outer clothing was actually too long for my limbs. Though I tried to roll them up and things, they kept coming back down and they started wearing out at the ends of course. Weird thing, the pattern in which they wore out was really, really cool to me. They're among my favorite clothes now.

Yeah, you know what? To heck with it. I'm going to start drawing up some designs. I like being creative. Can't be as weird as what passes for high fashion in some of those cat-walk shows.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@Xuan12 Yeah that's what I liked about sewing, you could lengthen or shorten items to suit your own body size.
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Xuan12 · 31-35, M
@xxxxxx I imagine once a person actually knows what they're doing with it then small alterations like that are pretty easy. Just have to get to that point I suppose.
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MartinTheFirst · 22-25, M
You should. I bought a coat with buttons and sew a zipper into it as well, halfway up the chest, so it's a real short zipper. I like it because it gives a lot of room for movement, sprinting and such. [i]And it allows me to pull it out with a coat on when I need to pee...[/i]

 
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