I had a conversation with someone today whilst I was at the fabric shop (strange place to find me!) who was saying that her daughter was at Bristol University doing Fashion & Textiles but, and this is a BIG BUT, they don’t teach them anything about making clothes, what is that about? Her daughter had spent a year (maybe?) at Taunton (SCAT) and not made clothes there either. I am appalled, isn’t fashion about clothes? If they are training people to be designers then surely they need to know about fabrics and how to put a garment together, but it seems that the students have to go out and find out about it for themselves.
With that in mind I feel that a summer school for fashion students would be in order to work on some sewing skills for these students so would like to have some feedback on what students would like to study in a summer school and how many people would be interested in attending. Classes would be in the Exeter/Exmouth area and I have a B&B just around the corner from me if you plan to stay for a day or two if we do more than one day.
Please leave your comments or drop me an email if a sewing summer school is interesting to you.
The same could be said of my degree. Lots and lots of electronic design, and mechanical design and systems design, but only very rarely do we actually assemble anything ourselves!