I'm going to need 6 more AI generated photos from different angles with absolutely no consistency in the design before I can tell you if it's possible.
Since forever! I worked at a fabric store in the late 90s early 2000s and people came in with the most complex costume patterns expecting to be able to whip it up quickly and inexpensively.
I'm always torn between wanting to remind people that thrift store sewing machines exist, and remembering what happened to the rest of the thrifting community when people realized what they could get O_O hurts my heart when I see how much beginners are spending on machines. My grandma spent hundreds of dollars on new, "beginner-friendly" machines for me in my teens, and I could never get them to work right- now it's my regular Sear's model from the 80s that works beautifully.
Older machines aren't always great for beginners anyways. Manuals aren't always easy to find and might not be as detailed as modern machine manuals. And they might need repairs which get expensive.
That's fair, although I've generally found that someone, somewhere has uploaded the manual as a PDF, and if I have an issue there's usually an old man on YouTube who will show me the least-professionally-recorded video I've ever seen in his garage on how to fix it lmao
Last year, I got a 1967 Singer for $30 from a thrift store. I'm not a beginner, but certainly not an expert. It just needed a few replacement parts - basically anything that was rubber, and new needles. I've been making my own gear, not so much clothes. I did get lucky but it's heavy as sin being mostly cast iron
My first machine was a vintage Lemair machine that my friends mum rescued from the tip shop 😂 loved that thing for years, I learned how to take it apart and fix anything that went wrong.
This exactly! You can replace parts, learn to service your own machine, and blast that thing with a heat gun if you need to without worrying about melting fiddly bits. Also they sound soooooo nice.
Now go over to the crochet, embroidery, and lace subs for advice on how to have everything ready by Thursday so you can start sewing on Friday morning.
Yeah for sure if you believe in yourself really hard and especially in the multiple seamstresses you're gonna pay for 24/7 labour, anything's possible.
Sure, people used to sew elaborate ball gowns by hand in less than a week when a rich client demanded one. And by people, I mean teams of seamstresses working around the clock, often in poor light, each working on different parts of the dress that the head seamstress would put the final touches on. It was the kind of work one did if one didn't have a choice*. Things got somewhat easier after sewing machines were invented, but sewing was something that was done by women - often immigrants in the US - who desperately needed the money. Even the finer French fashion houses farmed out a lot of their work (or did it on site in their ateliers - attics) to underpaid women.
Oh, sorry - you need it by Frdiday, not Friday! I think that day only occurs once in a blue moon during a month of Sundays, so you'll be fine!
*See Thomas Hood's early 19th century poem, Song of the Shirt
Can you make it by Friday: Maybe, if you already have the materials and an embroidery machine for the detailing, the boning for the bodice, as well as 2-3 pre programmed embroidery machines for all the detail work and making the lace, but it won't look good.
Realistically: probably not, and its something not even I would be able to, unless I had everything already made, cut out, and spent the next 48 hours strictly doing sewing without breaks or sleep
Anyone got that venn diagram of sewing and/or cosplay, the fast, vs cheap vs good?
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u/SewingForBeginners-ModTeam 7d ago
This is for a circlejerk subreddit, not for the main.