Oh where, oh where have the dressmakers gone.... - Page 3

> (Oh, it's SOOO nice to be talking to people from my era! I am
> technically old enough to be the mother of everybody in my office --
> the
> next oldest was born during my junior year of high school -- and I get
> so tired of having to explain cultural references)

> I am so tired of looking for someone to help me with the parts of
> creating garments that I don't have the large blocks of
> time-plus-concentration for (right now it's getting a pattern from a
> perfectly-fitting RTW garment) and only finding people who expect to
> learn on my dime, and the latest is someone who lives an hour and a
> half
> away and suggested that I conduct business by email, send her the
> garment I want cloned, realize that she charges a lot and it may not be

> cost-effective to have a pattern cloned from a garment unless it's
> something I want to make multiple garments of (well, duh...), and have
> her mail the cloned pattern back. Uh, I don't think so. My dear lady,

> your description of your experience sounds good, but my money doesn't
> grow on trees anywhere and I want to see samples of your work that back

> up your claims. Besides, (and this part I told her), if I was going to

> do something online I wouldn't have gone to Craigslist, where the motto

> is, "pay cash, meet in person" to ask for help.

> My neighbor does alterations for an upscale dry cleaner in an upscale
> city nearby (and has the prices to match) but doesn't create patterns
> from garments, as she is just an alterations person -- and an excellent

> one at that. I don't think that any dry cleaner's is going to have
> someone who can do what I want. And the only custom sewists I see are
> ones who want to make wedding gowns.

> I have no idea where to look for an experienced person to take a
> relatively basic item of clothing and copy a pattern from, and I really

> don't think I would want to do this by email. Anybody have any ideas
> of
> where to look (besides the PACC referral list -- it appears that the
> people in my area who I used to see on that list have vanished off the
> face of the earth). Or should I call up one of these wedding gown
> designers and risk getting laughed at for merely wanting them to help
> me
> make correctly fitting clothing to wear to work to see if they will
> clone a princess-line dress that fits me better than I could have ever
> dreamed that RTW would (and I can do the few alterations the pattern
> needs for it to fit me absolutely perfectly) as opposed to just
> spending
> $50 to buy another one and try to cut it apart and create pattern
> pieces
> and the one pair of gauchos that actually fits my
> thick-from-front-to-back bod like regular trousers that I have hunted
> from 3-6 months after I bought them and are not sold anywhere any more?

> *discouraged sigh*

> (Oh, it's SOOO nice to be talking to people from my era! I am
> technically old enough to be the mother of everybody in my office --
> the
> next oldest was born during my junior year of high school -- and I get
> so tired of having to explain cultural references)

> I am so tired of looking for someone to help me with the parts of
> creating garments that I don't have the large blocks of
> time-plus-concentration for (right now it's getting a pattern from a
> perfectly-fitting RTW garment) and only finding people who expect to
> learn on my dime, and the latest is someone who lives an hour and a
> half
> away and suggested that I conduct business by email, send her the
> garment I want cloned, realize that she charges a lot and it may not be

> cost-effective to have a pattern cloned from a garment unless it's
> something I want to make multiple garments of (well, duh...), and have
> her mail the cloned pattern back. Uh, I don't think so. My dear lady,

> your description of your experience sounds good, but my money doesn't
> grow on trees anywhere and I want to see samples of your work that back

> up your claims. Besides, (and this part I told her), if I was going to

> do something online I wouldn't have gone to Craigslist, where the motto

> is, "pay cash, meet in person" to ask for help.

> My neighbor does alterations for an upscale dry cleaner in an upscale
> city nearby (and has the prices to match) but doesn't create patterns
> from garments, as she is just an alterations person -- and an excellent

> one at that. I don't think that any dry cleaner's is going to have
> someone who can do what I want. And the only custom sewists I see are
> ones who want to make wedding gowns.

> I have no idea where to look for an experienced person to take a
> relatively basic item of clothing and copy a pattern from, and I really

> don't think I would want to do this by email. Anybody have any ideas
> of
> where to look (besides the PACC referral list -- it appears that the
> people in my area who I used to see on that list have vanished off the
> face of the earth). Or should I call up one of these wedding gown
> designers and risk getting laughed at for merely wanting them to help
> me
> make correctly fitting clothing to wear to work to see if they will
> clone a princess-line dress that fits me better than I could have ever
> dreamed that RTW would (and I can do the few alterations the pattern
> needs for it to fit me absolutely perfectly) as opposed to just
> spending
> $50 to buy another one and try to cut it apart and create pattern
> pieces
> and the one pair of gauchos that actually fits my
> thick-from-front-to-back bod like regular trousers that I have hunted
> from 3-6 months after I bought them and are not sold anywhere any more?

> *discouraged sigh*

>
> Hi I found a web site caled threadbanger and a video post by Kenneth king
> which
> for the first time explaned copying method which 1. made sense and 2
> seamed
> worth the extra work. Sorry I dont have a ling but have a look if you have
> a
> moment.

> scottishseam had written this in response to
>

> :
> Hi I found a web site caled threadbanger and a video post by Kenneth king
> which
> for the first time explaned copying method which 1. made sense and 2
> seamed
> worth the extra work. Sorry I dont have a ling but have a look if you have
> a
> moment.
> cheers
> Gil
> Samatha Hill -- take out TRASH wrote:
>
>
>
>
>> (Oh, it's SOOO nice to be talking to people from my era! I am
>> technically old enough to be the mother of everybody in my office --
>> the
>> next oldest was born during my junior year of high school -- and I get
>> so tired of having to explain cultural references)
>
>> I am so tired of looking for someone to help me with the parts of
>> creating garments that I don't have the large blocks of
>> time-plus-concentration for (right now it's getting a pattern from a
>> perfectly-fitting RTW garment) and only finding people who expect to
>> learn on my dime, and the latest is someone who lives an hour and a
>> half
>> away and suggested that I conduct business by email, send her the
>> garment I want cloned, realize that she charges a lot and it may not be
>
>> cost-effective to have a pattern cloned from a garment unless it's
>> something I want to make multiple garments of (well, duh...), and have
>> her mail the cloned pattern back. Uh, I don't think so. My dear lady,
>
>> your description of your experience sounds good, but my money doesn't
>> grow on trees anywhere and I want to see samples of your work that back
>
>> up your claims. Besides, (and this part I told her), if I was going to
>
>> do something online I wouldn't have gone to Craigslist, where the motto
>
>> is, "pay cash, meet in person" to ask for help.
>
>> My neighbor does alterations for an upscale dry cleaner in an upscale
>> city nearby (and has the prices to match) but doesn't create patterns
>> from garments, as she is just an alterations person -- and an excellent
>
>> one at that. I don't think that any dry cleaner's is going to have
>> someone who can do what I want. And the only custom sewists I see are
>> ones who want to make wedding gowns.
>
>> I have no idea where to look for an experienced person to take a
>> relatively basic item of clothing and copy a pattern from, and I really
>
>> don't think I would want to do this by email. Anybody have any ideas
>> of
>> where to look (besides the PACC referral list -- it appears that the
>> people in my area who I used to see on that list have vanished off the
>> face of the earth). Or should I call up one of these wedding gown
>> designers and risk getting laughed at for merely wanting them to help
>> me
>> make correctly fitting clothing to wear to work to see if they will
>> clone a princess-line dress that fits me better than I could have ever
>> dreamed that RTW would (and I can do the few alterations the pattern
>> needs for it to fit me absolutely perfectly) as opposed to just
>> spending
>> $50 to buy another one and try to cut it apart and create pattern
>> pieces
>> and the one pair of gauchos that actually fits my
>> thick-from-front-to-back bod like regular trousers that I have hunted
>> from 3-6 months after I bought them and are not sold anywhere any more?
>
>> *discouraged sigh*
>
>
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