Couture models are always expensive. But their price is due not only to the world-famous brand. An important component of the high price tag is the skill of the designer and his entire team.
The painstaking work of the fashion designer to create a unique masterpiece includes many design techniques, which ultimately endow the finished product with distinctive features that define it as a couture product.
But what is lurking inside?
✂ First of all, these are fabrics of the best quality, which are often made using manual labor and have no analogues.
✂ Extreme attention to detail.
✂ Unique fit.
✂ Corporate identity and accessories.
✂ Unique decorative finish of products.
✂ And, of course, the execution of individual steps manually by masters of their craft.
Of course, it is difficult to compete with the exclusivity of such an approach, but it is certainly possible and necessary to apply some couture sewing methods to achieve the perfect result.
1. Make a layout
Whether it’s a sketch of a new model, drawn on paper or in the imagination of a fashion designer, his layout is first created.
Use the same technique for new patterns and complex products - first sew a model of the future product. Make all adjustments to it. And only after that, cut the product from the main fabric.
Transfer changes from the layout to the paper pattern, or you can use the adjusted layout as a pattern.
2. Thread marking
When transferring the contours of the details of the pattern to the fabric, do not forget about transferring the pick-up lines, the midline of the front and back, the fold lines of the lapels, the entrances to the pockets, loops, etc. As well as all the notches and marks for combining the parts.
Couturiers carry out marking and marking with the help of snitches (copy stitches), and also indicate all the necessary lines on the details of the pattern with large basting stitches. For adjustment on a mannequin, tailor's chalk is usually used.
This is a rather time-consuming method of marking, but it guarantees the absence of traces that marking pencils and markers can leave.
Methods for marking the details of the pattern on the fabric
3. Duplication of parts
In order for the finished product details to keep in shape, as well as to stabilize certain types of fabrics, they are duplicated with special materials. In haute couture models and in private ateliers, high-class tailors use only glueless technologies. Parts to be strengthened are manually quilted.
The main difference between this method and the usual adhesive technology is that the fabric in the finished product holds its shape well, but at the same time retains its plasticity, which emphasizes the stateness of the master.
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4. Hand finish
Finishing details with decorative stitches, blind hemming, hand loops, connecting the lining to the product manually - haute couture products are not uncommon. The use of such elements in sewing will emphasize the level of your skill.
Many amateur tailors are happy to use these methods.
False hem on the bottom of the product
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