©¥©¥©¥©¥©¥©¥©¥©¥©¥©¥©¥©¥©¥©¥©¥©¥©"NEARLY NAKED", gauze dresseswith elegant, crocheted yokes or edges. Spaghetti straps. Bateau neckline, no sleeves.
MAKING MILLIONS IN THE RAG TRADE
©¥©¥©¥©¥©¥©¥©¥©¥©¥©¥©¥©¥©¥©¥©¥©¥©I've seen it done! I used to do astrology for Bev Hills Israelis who had landed in the USA without a dollar, opened a sweatshop doing dressmaking or blue jeans in a quasi-factory (more a LOFT,) downtown and soon he brought his wife and children over and they were living in Beverly Hills in a huge mansion. VERY QUICKLY, too. The Rag trade is lucrative, even if done as a cottage industry. (Rent the Movie SAVE THE TIGER with Jack Lemmon, and I CAN GET IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE with Susan Hayward, Dan Dailey.)
The thing you want in a dress label is elan, vivid, HIGH CONCEPT. Conveyed with the business name, CURRIED COTTON for African and Indian cotton dresses. Or LANGUID LILLY for phosphorescent, silky, shiny cocktail dresses. Or "Lilly's Fine Dining and Gentleman's Sporting Club" for some real tarty frocks.
If you have NAME APPEAL and fashion you're passionate about, turning your back bedroom into a sewing room for two gals to go at it......can make two girls a lot of money. You can expand into a loft with forty seamstresses soon enough as Latin ladies sew real well. Maybe a daycare in your garden, tended by one mother an hour, all day long.
I've brainstormed up some HIGHLY COMMERCIAL CONCEPTs for a dress label, which I'll share with you. The first concept is "NEARLY THERE ---MOSTLY BARE" dresses. Yes, Imagine a line of dresses for a hot planet. One day we'll all have to dress lightly due to global warming. The light garment can be made to look formal enough to go to the office in, but they're light, unlined, loose so they don't grab you under the arms or at waistline. Comfy. BARELY THERE. CRISP but tiny! Gauzy but not transparent. We don't want to be FORCED to wear UNDIES!
Imagine a cute line of frocks that you and your needle-handy gal pals make in ten different styles, sizes 4-14, for your local department store to retail. Call the line something engaging, so that the HIGH CONCEPT of the clothing gets noticed. The concept is, GLOBAL WARMING won't bother you now!
So if I had fifty sewing machines, 50 seamstresses on salary, the 'dress lines' and their high concept names would be:
ending above the knee. Frothy and light, cool!
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SHMATA FROCKS - Forties dresses with
small cap sleeve, a-line flounced skirts, peplums, recalling the Bronx.
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BRONX YENTA - and RIVERDALE
! Thirties florid dresses, wartime short skirts. Capped sleeves.
Peplums. Done in Hawaiian print cotton which resembles 40s
prints
A wonderful website of a collector vendor, is http://www.vintageous.com
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NEARLY NUDE, seductive,
done in light unlined cotton, (no poly!) The dress breathes -- or call
the company "NEXT TO NAKED!"
Use the exclamation point on your label. It really SELLS the concept.
and
the man looking at you will be breathing, too
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CHAMPAGNE
BUBBLES -Light,
pastels and pales.
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BAZAAR
FOLKLORICO!
Guatemalan, Mexican, India MADRAS
type TEXTILES,
HAND WOVEN COTTONS.
PUngent as a plate full of chiles.
MORE OF THESE AT MY FOLK
SECTION
And FOLKLORE PATTERN COMPANIES EXIST
GOOGLE THEM UP, ONLINE.
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Work 'Lite' - Elegant cut but light, breathing easily. Suits where you can peel the jacket if it's warm, wear it if the AC is on. Linen, cotton, fabric that breathes!
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NAIROBI
FASHIONS
-
African or Caribbean printed textiles, blowsy big flowers, geometrics
Actually Make them in NAIROBI SLUMS
so poor people can get a life. Any county in Africa works except NIGERIA.
They're all whacked there.
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BARELY THERE, the
shift
is
the maximum a gal wants to put on when it's hot and she's at home and nobody's
looking. Next step would be nudity. And who wants to sit on a chair nekkid? 
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LIGHT WEIGHT SHORTS
AND
HAWAIIAN
SHIRTS
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VINTAGE CLOTHING REPRODUCTIONS
at GRANDMA's
HOUSE.
Also VINTAGE PATTERNS AVAILABLE AT:
http://www.sovintagepatterns.com/page/page/1652672.htm
Also http://www.lanetzliving.net/
Try:
http://www.momspatterns.com/
GET THOSE VINTAGE PATTERNS at EBAY! And at the very fabulous
http://www.buttons-n-bows.biz/
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WADE ON IN, the WATER's
FINE. There's nothing to do but MAKE
TONS of MONEY.
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