Comments on: Copying processes #2

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:55:37 +0000

About washing before you put in buttonholes… does that still apply if you prewash your fabric before the garment is cut and sewn?

I also pre-wash goods. There’s no pat answer (depends on the fabric and project) but I usually garment wash before applying button holes anyway. Fabric or garments rarely shrink up enough with one wash/dry cycle. Two, garment washing *melds* the garment. Doing buttonholes after it has melded, is to most eyes, usually an unidentifiable quality but it lends a clean look.

By: patricia s

patricia s — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:11:35 +0000

Very interesting collar. I didn’t understand it when written up in creative machine yahoo group, but your pictures were worth a thousand words….
About washing before you put in buttonholes…
does that still apply if you prewash your fabric before the garment is cut and sewn? I prewash my fabric, preshrink my interfacting, everything before I cut.
Pat in Georgetown

By: Fashion-Incubator

Fashion-Incubator — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 23:11:31 +0000

Copying processes #3

Jess wrote in comments: “since this is a new shirt and this may be a proprietary design feature” What does that mean exactly? Are processes/designs ever patented and exclusive to some manufacturers? How do we know what to stay away…

By: Eric H

Eric H — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 20:01:10 +0000

Ah-HA! There’s my shirt! It is still intact, isn’t it?

By: Jess

Jess — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 06:21:15 +0000

“since this is a new shirt and this may be a proprietary design feature”

What does that mean exactly? Are processes/designs ever patented and exclusive to some manufacturers? How do we know what to stay away from if that’s true?

By: Jinjer Markley

Jinjer Markley — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 02:05:30 +0000

yay! these details are the kind I always notice, too. I just saw an expensive women’s shirt that I thought was particularly nice, and coudn’t figure out why at first–until I noticed that the collar was understitched instead of topstitched. It was so clean and pretty that way!

I plan to incorporate details like this in my somewhat-fictional line–not only do they speak “quality” to the industry, they speak “I care about how you feel in this garment” to the consumer.