My favorite thing about making clothes...

[SammieStrange]

the fact that even if someone else thinks its imperfect, especially when it is, the creator still loves it. There's something about bringing new life to something that is enlightening.


and I'm kinda depressed.
Cheer me up, Threadbanger. :P

[goofipinay]

Really ?

I see it as the opposite

The creator sees all the imperfections.
Others see it as amazing.

[orlandodiychick]

It keeps me from destroying my clothes. I made them, so I don't want to pick them to death.

[mlssfshn]

I agree I see my mistakes others see perfection

[fuddyduddydude]

Yea I see all the flaws in what I make, and to make it worse, I have to fight the tendency to go and point out all the flaws to other people.

[BOOGLE]

Making my clothes different, altering them to my liking. :D

[Addie_Marie]

I definitely see all the flaws in my work--I feel like flaws are always magnified to the creator. But the thing I love most about making clothes is when you picture something in your head, or sketch it out or something--just, dream up a design, and then you get to work with your fabric, spend your hours creating it, and then see it realized exactly as you had envisioned it.

That's the best feeling ever.

[glass__onion]

i love it when someone at my school asks me how i made something (usually rhetorically) and i respond with a detailed description. they then proceed to back away slowly...

also just wearing it out, seeing other people's store bought clothes, and thinking, HA.

and i totally agree with Addie, it is the best feeling EVER.

[Addie_Marie]

also just wearing it out, seeing other people's store bought clothes, and thinking, HA.


OH MAN. YES. I see all these people wearing their little abercrombie or hollister shirts and I find it absolutely repulsive that they all look alike. How do they not notice that? How do they not care?

[glass__onion]

i know! i've been so tempted at times to just walk up to a girl wearing a shirt with a huge abercrombie logo and wave a hand in front of her face. she probably wouldn't notice...

[Tampopo]

My favorite thing is the cheap/free aspect, since I never have the moneys. DIY means I get to actually have "new" & original clothes on a regular basis, not just every once in a while.

& it's super fun :)

[ladyjanewriter]

I love when people ask, "Where did you buy that?!?"

And I just say, "Why, Thank you, that means a lot to me, I MADE it!"

I also think that sometimes being able to make the perfect thing for the perfect person is really awesome (when they're the type to appreciate handmade gifts).

I've always loved making something out of nothing, I don't know why that is. I was always the weird little kid making Barbie doll houses out of carboard boxes, or wanting to do something with the left-over tube from the paper towels. They make really good megaphones. And you can whap your brother on the head with it, and it doesn't hurt him, and it makes a nice loud "BONK!!!" sound. Oh, and oatmeal boxes used to make good drums before they had plastic lids. And tin-can telephones are fun, even if the neighbor kids think your parents are poor and you're a total wacko.

I still think a cardboard box is the BEST toy in the world. If I had a kid, for her first birthday through her third birthday, she would be getting a huge box to play in. *shrug* They always play with the boxes, anyway!

Oh, the other reason I DIY is that a whole of the clothes that are supposed to be made for 30-40 year old women in the USA are really expensive and dry-clean-only, in weird colors, are too small, sometimes it has too much bling on it, and it's really hard to find cute casual clothes that are not super-preppy or super-ugly.

One day I was in a Nordstrom Rack a few years back, and I looked around and I realized that I had money to spend, but I didn't "see me" on the racks AT. ALL. I was SO angry and sad. I realized that my money wasn't good enough for the stores or the manufacturers, they just wanted money from trend-setting younger women and teen girls and pre-teens.

I'd remembered admiring my mom's clothes when I was a kid, and sometimes thinking I couldn't wait to shop for my own clothes and dress in my own style when I grew up.

Now I don't have to. I haven't figured out how to make all kinds of clothes, yet, but when it comes to skirts or other things I know how to make, I can "shop in my head. " :D

Holy CRAP I wrote a novel again! Anyway, this is a really great question!!!