The tailored shirt: Peaky Blinders intermission

Lately, I have been a little obsessed with men’s tailored shirts. Part of it is because I have been studying the best way to construct one and the other part […]

Making a Toile: Tailored shirt with barrel sleeves

One of the first steps in creating a couture garment is making a toile or muslin before making the garment in the fashion fabric. Muslin is an inexpensive fabric that […]

Couture: It’s just sewing

For many years, I followed industry pattern instructions with high expectations that my garments would turn out well. They did not, and I never wore anything I made. It was […]