Your Wardrobe Unlock'd

If you're anything like me, you'll be familiar with the experience of sitting in an office wishing you were sewing instead. In fact, wouldn't it be great to sew for a living? Be your own boss?

With twelve years in the business of playing with fabric for money, and having done so in an alarming variety of contexts, I can point out a few of the pitfalls peculiar to dressmaking businesses and offer you a few tips on how to make it work, too.

Knickers. Bloomers, if you will. Drawers; underthings; unmentionables; nether garments. When you get into them (pun intended), our most ignominious items of clothing actually have a rich and fascinating history. Over the course of history, those parts of a woman's outfit that few men saw and most men wanted to have steadily transformed themselves from nothing at all to a remarkably complex class of garments.