Tailoring Ready-to-Wear: Beyond the Basics

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Turn tricky alterations into tailored sensations. Use advanced alteration techniques to upgrade pants, skirts, dresses and shirts with an impeccable fit.

Introduction

Meet your instructor, Angela Wolf, and learn more about the alterations covered in your class.

Pant Alterations

Get your pants into shape with Angela’s expert alteration tips. You’ll learn to analyze the fit, pin up and mark your changes and rip out seams and restitch, both along side seams and at the rear.

Waistlines & Waistbands

Whether your waistband is crooked because of uneven hips, too loose or too tight, Angela’s got you covered. Men’s trousers are surprisingly easy to take in or let out, while women’s pants are trickier. But you can do it!

Altering Dresses

A dress with a waist seam gives you a lot of alterations options to get the hem just the right length and the bodice fitting well. Angela shows you how to make those alterations and reset any zippers for a perfect silhouette.

Zippers

Don’t let a broken zipper get you down! Angela helps you tackle the most common zipper fixes, whether it’s a front fly zipper in your favorite shorts, pants or skirt, or an invisible zipper in a garment you’re altering.

Hemming Cuffs on Shirts & Blouses

Ready-to-wear shirts often have sleeves that are much too long. Shorten them at the cuff with Angela’s step-by-step guidance. She’ll show you how to move or shorten the placket and add more pleats if you need them. Her techniques are suitable for both men’s and women’s shirts.