Men's Fashion S1Wk 1 || Introduction to Tailoring || 13-5-22

Hello verified kids in this community. I want to commend you all for your incessant effort in creating contents in this community. Your hard work can never be jeopardized. It's high time you kids learn a lifetime skill other than craft. Your tutors @ubongudofot, @samuel20 @fredquantum, @cryptogecko @patjewell, @udyliciouz, and @frankingcol are all doing their best in helping us learn certain courses that we can build and work on. I'm @bossj23 by name. I'm your new men's fashion tutor. At the end of this and every lessons, homework will be thrown to see if we understand that day's course. Before introducing tailoring which is the topic of today, let's see our scheme of work for the month and subsequent months. Before introducing any course, there must be an outline of the Course. Before knowing how to sew men's clothes, you need to learn how to sew straight sewing, how to use and adjust your machine, correct measurement, how to cut fabrics to shape and how to join certain parts.

Course Outline for May and June

Weeks	Topics
Wk 1	Introduction to tailoring
Wk 2	Basics in sewing
Wk 3	Identifying your sewing machine [in and out] and sewing equipment.
Wk 4	Describe fabrics and patterns...Test 1**
Wk 5	Demonstrate hand sewing and amending clothes
WK 6	Practicals....
Wk 7	Taking Measurements

Things to be done every class in a week....

• Homework task
• Practicals
• Test and examination
• Competition with other communities like @steemskillshare etc......
• Contest
• Quizzes
• Giveaway and lot more......

This course would be an interesting and interactive course. Everyone will be carried along. So I'll start my introducing tailoring. What is tailoring, Terms associated with tailoring, why study the course, objectives of tailoring, importance of tailoring and setbacks. Since I'm teaching kids tailoring [Men], i won't teach them like a college student or high class student. I make sure the lesson is clear and easy to comprehend.

What is tailoring?

Tailoring in a layman's term, is defined as the act or process of using certain skills to sew clothes either using a machine or hand sewing. Tailoring in general is not restricted to sewing alone.It is also the art of adjusting clothes to fit a person's unique body shape. It spans from cutting, designing, weaving, fitting and finishing clothes and then issuing them out to customers or for sale.

Who is a tailor?A tailor is a person who alters or makes clothes in men's clothing particularly.

Seemstress: is a woman who sews clothes and earn by this.

Fashion designer: is a person that designs new clothing styles and patterns.

Terms associated with Tailoring

• Sewing: For a layman, sewing is the act of mending, stitching or joining clothes using a needle and thread. In a general term, sewing is a craft that involves stitching, fastening or attaching objects and holding fabrics together with the aid of a sewing needle and thread by hand or with a machine. Another name for sewing is Needlework.

• Weaving: is a method of textile production or fabric production by interlacing two sets of yarns usually silk threads so that cross they cross each other at right angles to form a cloth... Weaving is also a process of shielding and holding materials from loosening. When you cut a fabric or materials to sew a trouser in particular, you'll have to weave the edges so that it won't loosen. Weaving helps to hold the fabrics together and makes the work neat and nice on the inside.....

• Cutting fabrics: This is a method of using measurements and a pair of scissors to produce something for sewing. It can be trouser, suit, senator or shirt cutting.

• Measurements: This is an important aspect in tailoring. Measurement in tailoring is not that relative to physical quantities but the distance between one point of human body to another. If these measurements aren't properly taken, they'll be a huge problem with the clothes fixtures.

N/B: There's a big difference between tailoring and sewing..

Objectives of Tailoring

• Having broad knowledge on this course will help the student familiarize himself with sewing equipment and how to use them.
• The student will be able to perfect hand sewing for minor amendment or stitches
• The student will know how to measure accurately to fit into the shape of the person measured
• The student will be know how to cut fabrics perfectly and smoothly
• The student will know how to amend, adjust
  and shape materials with the aid of a sewing machine.
• The student will know how to sew trousers, shirts, suits, senators, Etibors and native perfectly.
• The student will also know how to identify fabrics........All of these are the goals a student studying this course will achieve.

Importance of tailoring

Many say that tailoring is a very stressful skill you devote much of your time and energy doing. They consider it boring to learn as many can sit one place. But do you know the shocking fact? You have the opportunity to learn tailoring but you refute.Then why become hot tempered when a tailor sews clothes in a way you don't like or it's not fitting? If you perfect sewing,you can sew clothes for yourself and your household without giving a tailor..You can just learn the skill for self use if you don't want to implement it. Here are the importance of tailoring in this modern world.

• Financial Support: Tailoring is a lucrative business one can review and over review in this modern world. This art or skill is a means of providing for your second basic necessity as a man. This is a means of generating income as people are now into dressing. Schools are looking for good tailors to sew school uniforms. If you perfect it, you can be employed as a stable tailor. You can even be flown oversees to be a perfect fashionista there. The world is basically fashion so you are very much needed. By doing this, you can support yourself financially as well as develop more tailoring skills. Imagine collecting 4k plus for a uniform and you are given 100 uniforms to sew, that's a hundred thousand plus which in steem it's 400 steem by 250N.

• Solving your basic necessity: Everyone knows that clothing is one of our basic necessity, so we need clothes to appear well and look good at all times. Instead of spending money on a tailor to sew your clothes, you can sew it for yourself and family members. You sew it how you want it to look like without instructing a tailor on how to go about it. Simple tear in your clothes can be sewn by you without taking it to a tailor to amend that small place

• You never know emergency day-of repair: It's important you know sewing as a skill so thst in case of emergency, you can tailor it yourself. Let's take an example. You have a sewing machine at home but you don't know how to run it. As you were about going to work, your cloth had a big tear. You cannot run the machine so you'll have no choice but to take it to a tailor. If you knew how to sew, you wouldn't have had to bother much.

• Your as a tailor likely knows what fits you better than another tailor do since you are the one sewing.

• Getting pre-owned, well sewn newly tailored clothes feels as good as buying them new ones or ready-made ones.

Setbacks as a tailor and how to tackle them

• Collecting a lot of clothes when you know very well that you wouldn't have enough time to complete them and return them to the owner in time. This is the worst thing any tailor should do because he'll likely face customer's problems. Many tailors are in jail because of not giving customer's clothes in time. Imagine you promise to sew someone's cloth and give him before his wedding day and on that fateful day, you disappoint him. He calls your line and you refuse to answer. You can tackle that by being straightforward not being after the money except you have assistance or people that would help you. If time won't favour you, you kindly and respectfully tell the person you won't have time.

• Being diligent and very much careful with customers clothes.Any small mistake in the cloth can invite problem. View people cloth as a fragile stuff. It shouldn't be handled anyhow.

Homework Task

Task one: Define Tailoring
-1B List and explain five terminologies in tailoring

Task Two: Mention 3 importance of tailoring to you personally.
-2b Mention 3 objectives of tailoring

Task Three: Differentiate between a tailor and a fashion designer.....

Read up Topic: Basics in sewing

Homework Rules

• You must be a verified kid to participate (no adults)
• Your Answer must be more than 150 words in the Comment Section or as a post.
• It must be your own words, no plagiarism
• Use the tags; #learnwithsteem #assignment #steemexclusive #tailoring #country #clubstatus in your tags

This is where we'll draw the curtain for today's lecture. Hoping to see you next week Friday. Before ending the lesson, I'll like to recognize each and every kid in this community.

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See you all next Friday