A How to Guide For Young Girls Who Dream of Becoming a Fashion Designer

Learn to Sew! Yes, you must learn to sew. It is actually quite easy and anyone can learn to sew by hand or with a machine. Check out local fabric shops for lessons, or check on line for “how to” videos and free patterns and ideas. If you can thread a machine, and sew a straight line, you can create anything. Start with very easy patterns like ones that say, “Sew in two hours”, or “Sew Fast, Sew Easy”, or “It’s Sew Easy.” These types of sewing pattern are great for beginners, and this is where you will want to start so that you don’t get frustrated with a more difficult pattern. Garments that have elastic in them at the waistband are the easiest and best way to learn. Once you have mastered that, move onto easy accessories like purses, headbands, and hats. Familiarize yourself with every kind of garment and accessory there is to sew. Then move onto the more advanced things like lined skirts, princess seams, lined jackets, and zip up pants with a cuffed hem.

Always be sketching! Keep a sketch pad by you at all times, near your bed, in your school locker, at the gym, in your purse, where ever you are. You never know when a great design will pop into your head!

Always know what’s in style. Have plenty of fashion magazines on hand; check out the latest dresses, styles, and gowns in Hollywood, and watch fashion TV shows. If you’re going to design and make fashion, then you need to know it.

One of the most important things is you must have an “eye” for fashion, design, color, and print. Anyone can learn to sew a skirt on a sewing machine. It takes an exceptional individual to make a skirt that will be in high fashion with its uniqueness from the color, fabric texture, different stitches, design, and embellishments they used to create the skirt.

Designing and making your own clothes does not have to end up as a career move. Fashion Design is an art, and you can learn it just for fun, as a hobby, sew for your family, design and make costumes for a local theatre company, or even open up your own little corner boutique.

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