Tailor Made

Getting your clothes made is a option you might want to consider. Or making them yourself. Before you say it's too expensive, I'm here to tell you that it's not. You have the opportunity to be extremely creative. You can go the pattern route---Vogue, McCall's, and Simplicity are the more popular ones. Pictured here is Vogue 8280, (that's the pattern number)from their Very Easy Vogue Options Line. It's essentially a fitted sheath with short sleeves. It's sophisticated and classy and you can make it in any color you want. Or you can go to a reputable seamstress or tailor. Visit a Fabric store and you will find all kinds of materials. From leather to silk and everything in between. All kind of notions, buttons, clasps and everything else you can imagine. Some fabric stores offer sewing classes. Then there is the net. You can find all kinds of fabulous fabrics stores on line. Like Hancock Fabrics, Jo-Ann Fabrics the list is huge. So the next time you see some particular style and you can't find it or you want it made a particular way, consider making it yourself or having it made.

"It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt

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