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RED FLAGS OF A POOR QUALITY GARMENT – Get better at sewing by looking at garment construction!

Evelyn Wood

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Let me show you all the things I found on the fast fashion garment that tell me, it is a poorly constructed garment. Many corners have been cut while sewing it, and it shows! Learn to notice what skipping steps looks like, so you can improve your own sewing!

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20 Comments

@averybell4273 6 years ago

I think...we are so accustomed to seeing these lower quality items that we forget how its supposed to look like.

@SarahBent 6 years ago

Very helpful- so many things to look for.

It's also important to acknowledge that the seamstresses who create these garments are not necessarily careless. They are forced to produce cheap garments as fast as possible for an extremely low wage. Often they are literal or virtual slaves. The ones at fault here are the companies that create them and put us all in this situation for more money than most of us could even understand.

@Whislersmath 6 years ago

As a beginner sewer I would love to see two similar garments. One done well and one done poorly so you can show us this is bad and this is how it is done well.

@FranktheDachshund 6 years ago

For the complete novice, showing how you would have created these areas the right way would be very helpful. Like that bottom hem, showing how that seam should have been made would be a great video.

@wanda5983 6 years ago

Evelyn is so precious, it feels like she's an old friend of yours which you can ask for sewing tips

@lindabrown7374 6 years ago

Tho not related to this particular jacket, what drives me crazy are plaids and also stripes that don't match where they should. I see that on higher priced clothing and not just FF.

@msguinevere3702 6 years ago

And this poor quality fabric and construction is seen on fairly expensive clothing too (bridal wear!) Terrible. Unless people sew or are used to seeing high quality clothing they don't even realize they are paying tons for garbage clothing!

@Veronensis 6 years ago

I feel this problem is also created in the fashion industry because the designers are so far from the production process. Designers sometimes don't even know how to sew. How can you design something properly, when you don't even know how to construct a garment?

@Helenasew 6 years ago (edited)

Great video! What peeves me the most is when expensive brands that are essentially just bought for the logo, but if you actually look at the garments there are many flaws, but people seem to think they're better because of the brand 😂🤔

@azalea77 6 years ago

I think it was made by some poor, overworked woman, somewhere in Indonesia or Bangladesh, they have to work really fast. it's just my opinion, all fast fashion rely on cheap workers.

@Ngem68 6 years ago

A few days ago I found myself in my closet just examining my clothes, while binge watching one of your series. Started pulling clothes off the hangers, and created a 'Renovating' pile. Oh Boy! 3/4 of my closet was on the floor.
Welp, I'll be busy for days to come.
Your videos are great, Thank you for putting in your time to help us beginners out.

@annad.l6087 6 years ago

For quite a while I was thinking you look like some combination of Betty Boop and Snow White. I figured it was just because they are from the same decade. Recently I found out that the original illustrator for Betty Boop is the same person that illustrated Snow White.

@Clarytee217 6 years ago

Total beginner here but all these things are why I usually don't feel comfortable or put together in fast fashion jackets and blazers.

@inerlogic 6 years ago

Next video we fix it!

With petrol and matches!

@camillacamilletti5343 6 years ago

Oh my god. I don't know her but when she said it was lovely to see 'all our smiling faces' I instantly smiled. For the first time in weeks.

@elenanojkovic2554 6 years ago

I have striped dress at home and the stripes on the zipper do not match, at all. It annoys me to no end. It's not some complicated pattern where it is hard to match fabric or something floral where it won't be noticed.
I'm a complete begginer but when I was making a skirt out of checkered fabic I took A LOT of time to line up the pattern. I even made bell hoops so they match the fabric of the waistband underneath (at this point my mum concluded I'm just a tad crazy). She had her doubts ever since I came from a second hand shop with a new waistcoat and was geeking out about how the pattern matches almost perfectly!

@DipityS 6 years ago

I'm nodding along and tsking - but honestly if you asked me to point out what was wrong I'd have no idea at all. :)

@sensibilitypatterns 6 years ago

This is so good! I point these things out to my teenage girls all the time when they fall in love with a piece of fast fashion. "You can make it...better!" (PS - YT keeps unsubscribing me from your channel, but I'm trying again!)

@sternenregen5489 6 years ago

And Fast Fashion is often expencive fashion. I remarked it last year when I looked for a coat. At least found one in a thriftstore: high quality from the nineties.

@kathygann7632 6 years ago

My pet peeve is leggings or pajama pants where the stripes don’t patch by 8 or more inches!!! They didn’t even make an attempt! Then they take a picture and post it on their online catalog.