Sewing

It's been about 5 weeks into the school year, which adds up to about 70 hours of Fashion Design class! We've spent a majority of this time learning how to sew- both hand sewing and with machines. Even with industry machines, it still takes an incredible amount of work to produce a garment. I never realized either how much hand sewing is still necessary because it can't be reached by machine. In haute couture, 100% of the garment is hand sewn, which justifies the price a little more in my mind. Although I knew about haute couture before, I thought "handmade" meant basic sewing machines being used by hand, with no fancy programs controlling them or anything. In reality, handmade means no machines at all whatsoever. I'm sure this is to make the garment more expensive, because a machine is capable of producing a tighter and straighter stitch. I also know now that being a couturier is not the job for me, because hand sewing is tedious as fuck and I have very little patience for it.