I'm looking for someone who can do a custom costume for around $300 for a convention?
Does anyone know someone who can do a custom costume anywhere close to that price range?
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Beverly
Bah! "international"
I realise there are several variations in meaning of words and vocabulary each side of the Atlantic, is 'sewist' a common expression in the US? It just doesn't look - or sound - right to me!
:-)
As may be, but "sewer" looks awful to me...stinks, too! ;-)
There have been several discussions on this newsgroup for an alternative to "sewer" for "a person (of either gender) who sews". Since "seamstress" seems sexist, and "tailor" is mostly used to refer to males, what do you suggest?
B
'Seamtress' and 'dressmaker' have female connotations. 'Sewer' can be misinterpreted. 'Sewist' may not look quite right but says what we mean: one who sews.
'Fraid I don't have an alternative, it's just that the word 'sewist' jarred. As a relative newcomer, I bow to the collective wisdom of the group.
OK, it's a pity that political correctness seems to get in the way of just about everything these days. As a mere fellow of advancing years whose interest in sewing is primarily for dressing our dolls, I guess I'm a dressmaker, but I certainly don't feel maligned by the title!
I certainly wouldn't claim to be a tailor, tailoring and dressmaking are as different as chalk and cheese, but that's another argument altogether! [1]
[1] I'm really being just a little mischievous, having just finished my next bit of floor tiling, and it's looking good and left me in excellent humour this morning! :-)
I like to stomp all over PC stuff in me little spiky-heeled boots! I'm a dress and costume maker, who also does some tailoring.
Hard tailoring of such stuff as gents natty suiting is certainly a development from clothes sewing in general, but takes it to new levels of sculpting and upholstery! ;)
Good. Tiling I leave to t'hubby! :D
Well......Don't be shocked if you can't find someone to do that for you for that price range. Minus the weaponry and boots, that's about 25-30 hours worth of work. If you don't live in a tiny, rural, economically depressed town, you probably won't find someone who could do a professional job for $10 per hour. My labor rate was more than that when I did live in a small, rural, fairly depressed town. And that doesn't even take fabric into account. If you want plain fabrics (say like a linen blend so it looks coarse) that can be had fairly inexpensively. Try
Remember that it can cost $300 + to rent an elaborate costume. Just fair warning that you may not be able to find someone to handle the job in your price range. What you could do is pick one piece, or maybe two pieces. Like the cape and the tunic. Have those made and then "fake it" for the rest of the costume. (buy leggings, hunt through thrift stores for boots, etc.)
Good luck!!
Sharon
It's a this-newsgroup term, selected in desperation.
"Dressmaker" is the *proper* term for the set of skills meant, but a lot of the dressmakers we want to refer to wouldn't dream of making dresses! "Tailors" make clothes -- but only tailored clothes. Seamstresses are strictly female -- I often say "seamster" (which is also feminine; the neuter/male word should be "seamer", but "ster" has pretty much lost its meaning, hence the double feminine "seamstress"), but a seamstress wasn't a dressmaker, she worked under the supervision of a dressmaker or tailor back in the days when nobody had sewing machines.
A "sewist", properly, is one who operates a sew (cf. "pianist", machinist") but we are completely out of options.
Is this lump in my pocket Nicoll's Cosh*? Anyone know of a word we can snitch from some other language?
I can get pretty close replica weaponry and boots. Plastic is OK for me.
Lower cost materials would be necessary on a budget.
I actually found someone who would do right around here. She does renaissance fair clothes for $11/hour as her regular job. While I was talking to her she made a very elaborate cloak with hood (cut, sew, added clasps and a border, and some pleating things in the shoulders) for her daughter.
Took her about half an hour, no pattern or anything, really amazing.
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