Tailoring Ready-to-Wear

Let designer Angela Wolf show you the tailoring techniques she used to start a successful alterations business – and get a custom fit for all the clothes in your closet!

Ready-to-wear shouldn't be "ready-to-swear." Learn to make your own alterations to store-bought clothing, including lengthening and shortening hems, altering waistbands, replacing zippers, tapering tops and more. After Angela shows you how to alter garments like a pro, your friends will inevitably start asking where you buy your clothes.

Avoid expensive alteration fees – you can fashion your own tailored wardrobe. Enroll today in Tailoring Ready-to-Wear.

What You'll Learn

• Tailoring techniques and pro secrets to alter ready-to-wear clothing
• What garments can and cannot be altered
• To mark, lengthen, and hem pants and jeans
• To alter skirts from waistbands to hems, and how to replace a hidden zipper
• Alteration techniques for jackets and tops for a perfect tailored fit

• 10 HD video lessons with anytime, anywhere access
• Downloadable class materials, including a supply list and metric conversion chart
• Hours of close-up instruction
• Answers from Angela in our virtual classroom

• Watch classes on your own schedule: wherever, whenever you want
• Your access never expires
• 100% money back guarantee

1. Introduction (12:06)

   Designer Angela Wolf goes over what you'll be learning in this class.

2. Hemming Pants (32:28)

   Mark and correct pant hemlines, finish edges and make blind hems.

3. Lengthening Pants (17:44)

   Angela gives you her pant lengthening tips, including adding bias tape, and teaches you how to topstitch like a pro.

4. Hemming Jeans (31:46)

   Learn to hem, topstitch and add distress marks to your jeans.

5. Skirts (39:53)

   Add a rolled hem and make hip alterations to your skirts (including vented skirts).

6. Taking in the Waistline (27:49)

   Angela shows you how to create a curved dart, reattach a belt loop and more.

7. Knit Tops & T-Shirts (32:24)

   Mark, pin and stitch your way to a perfect, tailored top.

8. Altering Shoulders & Armholes (55:43)

   Learn about understitching and alter side seams and shoulder straps.

9. Sleeve Length on a Jacket (54:24)

   Deconstruct a jacket sleeve and learn to add fusible interfacing, adjust the lining and alter the vent.

10. Hidden Zippers (36:38)

    Learn zipper basics, to use a zipper foot, to create hidden zippers and more.

System Requirements:

• Supported OS: Web Browser