Plenty of cosplayers & reenactors would agree with you...
You can make reasonably nice clothing even at home, always supposing you want to. Yes, they can look 'different', as in, not fast fashion, as in 'not like what everyone else is wearing'. But it doesn't mean they look bad or cheap or second-rate or unprofessional.
I agree with this 100%. I'm pretty sure you never looked anything less than what you aimed to be. :)
I feel like there are some weird jumps in assumptions there…. If you plan it out well you can use your curved seam “leftovers” for something else – headbands, belts, quilting, patches, dolls dresses - and I've certainly bought cheap polyester and other modern fabrics on the cheap to take home.
---
I think that having a family influence does help? My grandmother is about as mainstream Australian as you can get, but was a seamstress before she got married; she still does a lot of sewing, and her various grandchildren don't treat home sewing as some sort of strange and foreign beast - both of my cousins (male and female) do sewing at her place; one of my sister's does a lot of sewing via her reenactment group (and uh, has a little bit of an ongoing black market on rabbit pelts) and my other sister at the very least has sewing projects that she talks about periodically (that sound totally awesome and I would totally buy if I found available - a fur lined hoody with little cat ears!!! XD)
There's some sewing skills which are very complicated to do (like making a hoop skirt); but if you have the time, space and money for the intial investments (like a sewing machine that makes your life soo much easier) I don't think it's a overly difficult skill to learn.
I don't sew myself these days because it's not something I have the time, space, or to be honest patience for it at the moment.
But I've made my own clothing in the past when I couldn't find what I wanted, and it can be rewarding. Like a set of skirts when I was a.... teenager and found 1 skirt I liked and nothing else mainstream (all I wanted at the time was something shiny & below the knees!!! for the dance party things.) so I used that to make a pattern - and then I had four skirts that material wise combined were certainly much cheaper than the original (it was a $49 skirt)... and didn't look too different from the original apart from the uh, colouring choices (the original was silver, & I made a gold, a red, a lilac & a rainbow one. [again, teenager] :3)
no subject
You can make reasonably nice clothing even at home, always supposing you want to. Yes, they can look 'different', as in, not fast fashion, as in 'not like what everyone else is wearing'. But it doesn't mean they look bad or cheap or second-rate or unprofessional.
I agree with this 100%. I'm pretty sure you never looked anything less than what you aimed to be. :)
I feel like there are some weird jumps in assumptions there…. If you plan it out well you can use your curved seam “leftovers” for something else – headbands, belts, quilting, patches, dolls dresses - and I've certainly bought cheap polyester and other modern fabrics on the cheap to take home.
---
I think that having a family influence does help? My grandmother is about as mainstream Australian as you can get, but was a seamstress before she got married; she still does a lot of sewing, and her various grandchildren don't treat home sewing as some sort of strange and foreign beast - both of my cousins (male and female) do sewing at her place; one of my sister's does a lot of sewing via her reenactment group (and uh, has a little bit of an ongoing black market on rabbit pelts) and my other sister at the very least has sewing projects that she talks about periodically (that sound totally awesome and I would totally buy if I found available - a fur lined hoody with little cat ears!!! XD)
There's some sewing skills which are very complicated to do (like making a hoop skirt); but if you have the time, space and money for the intial investments (like a sewing machine that makes your life soo much easier) I don't think it's a overly difficult skill to learn.
I don't sew myself these days because it's not something I have the time, space, or to be honest patience for it at the moment.
But I've made my own clothing in the past when I couldn't find what I wanted, and it can be rewarding. Like a set of skirts when I was a.... teenager and found 1 skirt I liked and nothing else mainstream (all I wanted at the time was something shiny & below the knees!!! for the dance party things.) so I used that to make a pattern - and then I had four skirts that material wise combined were certainly much cheaper than the original (it was a $49 skirt)... and didn't look too different from the original apart from the uh, colouring choices (the original was silver, & I made a gold, a red, a lilac & a rainbow one. [again, teenager] :3)