posted May 9, 2012 8:39 AM by Deborah Paulino
Work with experienced fashion designer and professional styling
team.
www.RFDecouture.co.ccc is working with a large high-end vintage
boutique and costume hire in and exciting new restoration and reconstruction studio.
Seeking 3 interns/apprentices – fashion students or
independents wanting to increase their skills and resume.
Professional training and resume credit in exchange for work
hours. Continue learning as you work hands on with real fashion and costumes for
real clients with a professional team.
Experienced professional instructor and mentor, and
exhibited and award winning designer with own couture label, huge vintage
boutique, plus several rooms full of projects, trims, notions, and materials,
natural light workroom and photo studio.
Gain skills and work experience in:
Increase skill speed for commercial use
Production run planning and executing
Fashion and costume head to toe styling
Reconstruction and retailoring
Costume and fashion dating
Cataloging and photography
Retail market and pricing
Production to retail requirements
Textile renovation and preservation
Eco fashion techniques
Thread color and fabric matching
Fine and invisible hand sewing
Embellishment styling and sewing
Basic pattern making
Machine care and basic maintenance
Workroom care and basic maintenance
Mannequin care and maintenance
and more…
At least basic sewing skills are required
Materials and equipment supplied
Fun and fascinating work
Professional credit for your resume
5 to 20 hour per week 3 month minimum commitment
Hip and very busy inner neighborhood of San Francisco
Centrally locate with plenty of public transport
No vehicle parking, this is SF, sorry
No telecommute or work from home
Apply to RFDecouture
Cover letter, max 200 words with current status, aspirations,
and goals
Resume with skill set, and if any education and experience
Web site or links and press with photos of your work if any
Bring sewing samples with construction times to interview
Email recycledfordancing(at)gmail.com
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posted Apr 20, 2012 11:30 PM by Deborah Paulino
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posted Apr 20, 2012 2:21 AM by Deborah Paulino
When you are wearing a garment, folks don't just see the garment, they also see the accessories, such as your shoes, bag, sunglasses, and jewelry. These make your total look or outfit and you have to balance the look, the same as an artist balances colors and shapes in an abstract painting. For example if your dress is light chiffon an billowy you don't wear it with chunky thick strap sandals, you wear it with light weight ballet pumps or sandals with very thin straps. If you are wearing a thick wool tartan kilt you don't wear it with thin strappy sandals, you wear something like a closed toe pump or black ballet slipper (traditionally). Get yourself a full length mirror and look at the whole outfit, do your shoes really go with it, honestly? Is your jewelry overpowering the outfit or is it too understated and smothered? Think like an abstract painter and experiment with different accessories to find the right balance in your look. |
posted Apr 18, 2012 11:33 PM by Deborah Paulino
2012 Off the rack on tour RFD ARt Bazaar at Insight Coffee Roasters April 14 2012
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posted Dec 1, 2011 9:02 AM by Deborah Paulino
HI FolksLetting you know our new URL www.rfdecouture.co.cc
Much more easy to remember.
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posted Jun 22, 2011 1:28 PM by Deborah Paulino
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 When I was at the fabric store today a lady asked me about sewing lessons and an Up and Down Button Hole Stitch. The lady was quite adamant that if I'm a sewing teacher I should know every stitch there is. I looked up the stitch on the web, gotta love the web, and the Up and Down Button Hole stitch is an embroidery stitch, not a sewing stitch. I teach garment construction, not embroidery or quilting, very different types of skills. So the moral of this story is don't give the seamstress a hard time if she doesn't know a specialized type of stitch, a seamstress constructs and tailors garments, not embroiders, even though they are both called sewing. You can find instructions for most anything on the Internet and save a lot of time and money on lessons. The instructions for the up down button hole stitch can be found at http://inaminuteago.com/stitchdict/stitch/button-updown.html Photo above is of a finished Up and Down Button Hole stitch. Note: The above stitch is not actually for button holes as it is. To use it for button holes you have to bring the stitches very close together so the vertical stitches are touching (for those into hand stitching button holes)
FYI: My favorite fabric store in Sacramento is Hi Fashion Fabrics on Franklin Blvd web site http://www.hifashionfabricshop.com/ Great selection, lovely staff, and great specials. I send all my Sac students there.
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posted Jun 13, 2011 10:20 AM by Deborah Paulino
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 Save your local seamstress population before they all leave, give up, or die out. I recent got back into making and designing clothes after 12 months break because of people clients cheaping out on me. I lost my love of clothes and I think I actually lost my mind for a while. The last few months I've renewed my inspiration and my studio and stores are stocked. Yesterday I get request for a freebee custom complicated dancer's costume, and it really brought my inspiration levels down. I'd just spent 2 days volunteer teaching an artist's group to help them understand recycled fabrics and reconstructed clothing as sculpture. Good sewers are very, very, very rare, because sewing is a dying art. Fashion designers have trouble finding sewers, even if they pay a decent rate. Cheap clothes from places such as China have make people forget what a quality garment is and how much work there is in creating it. America used to be respected for it's quality fashion and folks around the world pay a premium for it. A custom jacket or Edwardian gown or prom gown from scratch, pattern and everything takes at least 2 weeks with a machine and 40 days or more if 100% hand stitched. To remake a pair of vintage stretch skinny pants from a medium size pattern up to a 24 inch waist with custom hip fit takes a week. My own students get overwhelmed sometimes, plus each garment needs at least 3 fittings to get the fit right. The gown or jacket will cost at least $600 for time and the pants 350 at $8.85 or less per hour at 40 hours per week, not including materials. Do you work for $8.75 or less per hour? I don't think so. So if you cheap out on your local seamstress you can now understand why she won't sew for you or anybody anymore. I’ve talked to many talented seamstresses who will no longer sew for other people because clients have cheaped out or are rude. Preserve your relationship with your seamstress and you will have a supply of seamstresses and the art not die out in your area. Pay your seamstresses extra and send them as much business as you can, in return you will have clothes and furnishings worth many times longer and lasting many times more and way more comfortable and good looking than store or web bought. Also don't ask a seamstr
esses or indie designer for freebees or discounts, they genuinely can't affor
d it, most of us barely cover costs. And yes we really do bleed and it really does hurt when a needle or pin goes in our finger every day.
And we do have hissy fits at times;-)
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posted Jun 10, 2011 1:38 AM by Deborah Paulino
Places to try on 2011 the RFD Eco Couture collections
San Francisco
Distractions
1552 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117-2913
(415) 252-8751 May 2011 - New collection of one of a kind steam punk wear for men and women.
Sacramento
Fringe 2409 21st Street, Sacramento, CA 95818(916) 706-0216 June 2011 - Feature Designer collection of steam punk and party wear in vintage/new mixed fabrics and embellishments.fringe21.com |
posted May 26, 2011 12:58 AM by Deborah Paulino
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get a quaint antique or vintage sewing machine that looks cute in the corner and get some basic sewing lessons. Doing simple alterations, repairs and making simple stylish clothes from ready made easy to sew patterns will save several hundred dollars or more per year and you and your family will always look good. Give up a bit of internet and television and learn a life and artisan skill to teach future generations, it can also be nice calming therapy
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posted Mar 23, 2011 4:10 PM by Deborah RFDecouture
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find out what styles best fit and suit your body shape, and be honest. Custom tailored clothes that suit your body and age make you look slimmer and younger. If your clothes are too tight or ill tailored they make you look fat or shapeless. It is ok to get clothes altered.
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