Clothing Production Quotes

Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor.

Making your own clothes is great - but don't make everything, or I'll be out of a job!

My mother was very fashion-oriented, and she started a little children's wear business that became large in this little town. She used to be able to look at a picture of an outfit and just start cutting the fabric right there.

I've never read an article of clothing.

My job ranges from creating the initial overall theme of the season, to developing fabrics and sketching to sampling and fitting.

'Fashion Star' has been an incredible platform to show America the amount of work and discussion that goes into each garment you see in a store.

I don't like to use expensive materials. I take care to make costs reasonable. It's very similar to the way I make clothes.

Today, most women are surrounded by ingenious gadgets. They don't grow the peas or raise the chicken that they serve for dinner; instead they hunt and gather in the grocery store. They go through catalogs or department stores to buy clothes instead of shearing sheep, carding wool, and weaving cloth for skirts and coats and blankets.

You can't separate the clothes from the stores, from the environment.

Designers simply can't afford to make dresses in 10 sizes for a sample.

Ready-to-wear is what I've wanted to do since the beginning. ... I'm not a girl who spends my life in a ballgown

Tailor's work--the finishing of men's outside garments--was the "trade" learned most frequently by women in [the 1820s and 1830s],and one or more of my older sisters worked at it; I think it must have been at home, for I somehow or somewhere got the idea, while I was a small child, that the chief end of woman was to make clothing for mankind.

I cannot believe that our factory system is the best mode by which men may get clothing. The condition of the operatives is becoming every day more like that of the English; and it cannot be wondered at, since, as far as I have heard or observed, the principal object is, not that mankind may be well and honestly clad, but, unquestionably, that the corporations may be enriched.

I love what I do, and I only want more. I love the whole process. I love designing, I love figuring out how to make the clothes happen, I love the ad campaigns.

My mom and grandma have made clothes their whole life. My grandma had her own factory.

Even buying a swimsuit is super difficult. And then making one is even harder.

I know clothing very well and I'm sure I will get into fashion eventually.

I was a fashion assistant. I bought the fabric. I made sure that everything was smooth in the workroom. And I scrambled all over London on the Tube looking for buttons. It was great.

The combination of human skills with technology will always be at the root of any solution to the future of making clothes.

The minute it gets to a runway, you're tempted to do some high jinks. I don't want to show something I won't produce. I want people to wear the clothes I show.

I make clothes people can wear; I don't make art.

It is extremely important to me that the social and environmental issues associated with the production of fashion clothing are addressed.

My family has always made clothes. Growing up I can remember sewing machines being everywhere.

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy. They are more: they are the best basis of public liberty, and the strongest bulwark of public safety. It follows, that the greater the proportion of this class to the whole society, the more free, the more independent, and the more happy must be the society itself.

I love everything about fashion. I even love the fittings and watching it evolve from a pattern to a muslin to the final product.