The Colorado Chapter of ASDP was honored to hear from Designer Alan Oakes, nephew of member Toni Oakes. Alan has an undergraduate degree in Architecture and an MFA (Master of Fine Arts) in Fashion Design and Society from Parsons School of Design in New York City. His degree at Parsons was training to be a … Continue reading February 2023: Designer Alan Oakes
The Colorado Chapter of ASDP had a topic change when our scheduled speaker got caught by the many air travel cancelations over the holidays. Instead of the scheduled talk we started on our backup plan: to work our way through ASDP member Angela Wolf’s book “How to Start a Home-Based Fashion Design Business.” Below are … Continue reading January 2023: Fashion Sewing Business Book
The Colorado Chapter had an evening business meeting in September. This was our meeting for voting and strategic planning. According to the latest draft of the Chapter Bylaws written by the National ASDP, we have too many board members. Because only one at-large member was present, it was decided to table the votes until another … Continue reading September 2022
The Colorado Chapter had an evening potluck during the heat of August. Fortunately, the weather threatened rain so we didn’t have the usual radiant heating of the air, meaning that the covered patio at member Marci’s house was a comfortable place for conversation. Carol entertained us with a study of garments from 1922 in the … Continue reading August 2022 – Picnic
The Colorado Chapter had a stimulating meeting with Alicia, the Zipper Lady (www.thezipperlady.com). Alicia brought an assortment of zipper tapes and zipper pulls for everyone. Starting with zippers with the largest teeth we learned how to install the pulls. Then we tried it on zippers with smaller teeth, which became progressively more difficult, but doable. … Continue reading July 2022 – The Zipper Lady
In early June, the Colorado Chapter had another evening meeting, this time to learn about Standards of Quality. Chapter President Anne Kuehn led the discussion by walking us through the 2008 version available from the National ASDP web site (Standards of Quality for Custom Clothing (sewingprofessionals.com)). This document contains expectations for quality garments made primarily … Continue reading June 2022 -Standards of Quality
In May, the Colorado chapter met online (zoom) and in person to learn about personalities. Member Pat Bornmann introduced the Enneagram and Myers-Briggs personality types. Near the end she had everyone submit their individual personality preferences and that of the entire group was determined. All preferences were well represented with nearly equal numbers of extraverts … Continue reading May 2022 – Personality Types
In April, the Colorado Chapter had a social networking meeting with people from the local fashion and design community. It was held the Monday evening after Denver Fashion Week. We met at a trendy bar with food stands. Just over 30 people attended and there were many comments from the visitors about it being a … Continue reading April 2022 – Denver Meet-and-Greet
Carol Phillips gave a highly informative and interesting presentation on how to create your personal body croquis for zero dollars using readily available digital resources like smart phones, computers and common tracing and drawing tools. Or, enter 22 body measurements into an online application and generate a customized digital body silhouette for $30 to $ … Continue reading March 2022 – Croquis
In March 2022, the Colorado Chapter visited the Denver Art Museum to see the exhibit titled Suited: Empowered Feminine Fashion (Suited | Denver Art Museum). The fashion started in the late 1900’s and progressed to the present. Most of the fashions were haute couture with a few ready-to-wear garments. Of course, there was a Channel … Continue reading February 2022 – Denver Art Museum