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Is being a glamour girl your forever dream? Did you want to be a fashion designer, but the truth that you can't sew has put a full stop to your whole dream? But it really isn't that important, is it?
Steps
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1Do you really want to be a fashion designer? Or are you just wasting your time, when you could be practicing your other hobby? Be sure, before choosing something as a career. After all, it's a matter of a lifetime. You don't want to spend your whole lifetime doing what you opted ten years back.
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2Give a boost to your imagination, come up with your own designs and draw it out on a paper!Advertisement
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3Make a fashion portfolio. Keep it with you all the time, take it everywhere. Label all the colors. If you have any idea, sketch it there and then!
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4Encourage Your own style. Don't let someone's harsh comment drag you backwards. Style is all about creating your own. Even if someone tells you, it's odd, tell them that style is what you create yourself, sometimes it may seem odd to someone, while someone will find it cute. so don't be discouraged by someone's harsh comment.
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5Choose good fabric that suits the design. Have a good fashion and style sense.
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6Now, give a good design of your dress to a tailor. Ask him to make a dress like drawn in that design. Don't worry it will not cost you a fortune!
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7While your clothes are being sewn try learn a little sewing yourself!
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8Always keep a cute box in which you can keep cute buttons, needles, etc. that you'll need to sew, so that you won't need to go hunting for useful things, and you find it immediately!
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9Learn about fashion! read magazines, spend your time with videos, your fashion portfolio, if you have free time enhance your imagination, boost yourself and gain experience about fashion.
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10Learn how to re-cycle fabric. Turn your old shirts to bikinis. or your long-sleeved T-shirts into skirts or your jeans into denim skirts. Or your skirt into beautiful artificial flowers.
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11Make advertisements and advertise your clothes. Try to see how people find your clothes.
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12Have passion for your work! Give time to your work. Give it your life and death.
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13How about creating your own dresses and offering it to prom girls, or wearing out some outfits to school, eh?
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Community Q&A
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QuestionCan I do this as a kid?Community AnswerYes! I would have your mom or dad help you though until you feel more comfortable.
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QuestionI really love clothes. I don't really want to become a fashion designer (and I can't sew), but I can draw! I'd like someone to use my ideas, but how?HumanBeingTop AnswererYou could look into becoming a costume designer. You could continue to draw clothing, but not be a fashion designer, if you became an illustrator specializing in clothing and fashion. You might enjoy fabric design instead of clothing.
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QuestionI want to become a designer. Do I have to learn how to sew?Community AnswerNo, but it will be more difficult to design clothes without knowing how to make them.
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Warnings
- Never, ever copy someone else's style.⧼thumbs_response⧽
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