When is hand stitching chic or couture and when is it cheap?
I was once watching something on the Discovery Ch. That had to do with cotton or silk use in the fashion industry. One part they were at a lingerie maker and the maker mentioned something about a high end silk bra that was hand stitched. When I use to get car magazines they often spoke of high end cars with hand stitched leather seats. If a kid went to high school in clothes his mother sewed at home no matter how well constructed I am guessing he would be seen as poor or from a cheap family that won’t buy label. What makes one hand sewing application ”custom” and couture while another hand sewn application seem cheap, shoddy or county bumpkinish?
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I think it’s all down to marketing. If you went to school with clothes hand made by Louis Vuitton that would be awesome. Clothes made by your mom would be taken as you couldn’t afford clothes by Louis Vuitton. Unless your mom was Louis Vuitton.
Also, I think you mean “chic.”
Because the other kids have more expensive stuff!
The price tag. This is coming from someone who grew up in hand-me-downs and homemade clothes.
The term hand stitching has no legal definition. It is often used to market high end products implying that special care was taken. When used to describe home made products, such as school clothing or such, it doesn’t mean cheap it means homemade.
It depends on the workmanship, too. If something’s unique, homemade and well made, then I think people are inclined to be more impressed. One example, I saw an older lady with a custom made jacket with intricate embroidery and needlework. I recognized the fabric as being from Wal Mart and was floored. It was positively gorgeous and we chatted about her jacket for a while. The jacket was obvious even to the untrained eye that it was not made in Bangladesh and she said people often commented on how beautiful her workmanship was-
While… if a bridesmaid walks down the aisle with crooked stitch lines, puckered or ill made seams, $1 bin fabric, crooked hems, weird necklines, badly inserted zippers and the like, people’s faces will change to looks of pity.
I’ve seen snooty hand-stitched wedding dresses that looked like royal crap, and hand-stitched dresses that were jaw dropping. Workmanship.
And of course… marketing…
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