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In modern western society, the profitability of misuse and confusion determine one perspective that is generally dominant. The way to make your own clothes according to this perspective is to buy a pattern, follow the directions on it, and make that piece of clothing as it was designed. This has many advantages to those with little time but still racket in clothe making. It has more advantages still to those who profit from the industrially admitted way of making clothes. < / p>
Patterns are impressed at a hefty profit, and over making clothes this way is so expensive, mass producers make more money still by lifelong to sell you clothes for cheaper than you can make them yourself. These mass produced clothes are designed around a model or mannequin, whose proportions differ from you, your family and friends. The fit then is a mass produced fit, theoretically designed around at least average proportions, but in trying on clothes it is obvious that if average does indeed even exist, she is not modeling for the clothing industry. < / p>
The factory is a modern invention, much younger than clothing and fashion. Clothes were once made by individuals who knew and met those they were making clothes for, even using the wearer as the model for the fit. Thus, there are ways of making clothes that do not rely so heavily on the processes of consumerism. It takes more time to make your own clothes, true. It requires learning and engagement. It does not require schooling however ( especially if one already knows how to sew ) nor does it need to be expensive. Nor is the time commitment very severe. Once one has started to learn, to become engaged with the creative process, the time fills itself, and hours of watching television or reading novels become hours of learning and crafting ideas. Or maybe only an hour a few nights a week playing with tissue paper and needles is all you decide to spend. < / p>
The methods of design are simple. < / b>
What makes a flat pattern on paper curve to fit the body are only little triangular areas cut out or folded. These triangular areas are called darts. From a basic flat pattern, the possibilities to slightly or completely alter the design are as simple as changing these darts. There are simple ways of moving darts to other areas of the pattern, to combine them or split them, to rotate or straighten, gather or release. And though these methods are mathematically perfect, they require very little technical knowledge and no calculations or complex notions. You don ' t need computer software to do it. < / p>
I encourage those interested in learning to make their own clothes to consider learning about pattern design. Get a good book on the subject and read, and from time to time break out some tissue paper and try out a technique ( so simple that they predate the sewing machine ). Soon the eyes become trained to see and understand seam lines in fashionable clothes, and to understand what makes a garment work ( or how it may need to be adjusted ). Becoming competent, you can trace interesting patterns from books, scale them to fit, and play with modifications. You never need to buy a pattern ( well maybe one to start ), and everything you make will be unique to your style. The process is actually simple, as it is the complex modern industrialization of production that makes simple things seem beyond our reach, the subject of professionals and other people more qualified than us. < / p>
I maintain a blog on the subject of how to make clothes< / a>. Please visit to learn more about empowering yourself to make your own clothes. < / p>
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