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, WickedFrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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." Thats has been my new > motto for several years now, and has suited me well since I spend most > of my sewing time doing historic stuff! > > You were lucky that you learned how to fit and sew. Most folks I know > now only learned how to sew. If they didn't have a pattern for it, > forget it...and I was never taught how to adjust a pattern as a younster > sewing. I picked all that up much later. > > Sg > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume