I got my half size dress form from Royal: royaldressforms.com/ (not sponsored) (Not 100% recommending it YET, because this video is the first time I've used it.)
This video is exactly what I need 😳 My final collection is full of tulles and drapes and gathering and I was so lost on how to materialize my ideas 😔 Thanks for saving me again Zoe ❤
Using the horsehair tape on the white tulle wedding dress was stunning. I learn so much from you....thanks for putting in the time and effort to do this for us!
I love it. Prepping for and shooting this video is the first time I'm playing with it but I love it so far. It's exactly half measurements so you can drape and translate to full size patterns easily. MATH!
I loved this video, thank you so much! Especially what you say at the end, “if you’re limited by a lack of knowledge, you’re limited in the kind of designer you can be”.
Zoe I've done Bridal alterations for going on 30 years. I've always had an attitude of "keep learning" . This coming year I'm branching out into design Bridal. You are a treasure. I love your videos and you are spot on , on all your advice. I chose the business route over two decades ago and never looked back. I laugh often at girls who want to have a custom gown but have absolutely no idea how the fabric they love will drape or look on a mannequin or a body. lol. I love the videos you and others produce, and you're generous to share. ❤❤❤
Love, love, love this video Zoe Hong! You made me remember that when the animated version of Beauty & The Beast came out I heard someone saying that they wanted to recreate Belle's yellow gown in charmeuse. Knowing fabrics and how they fall or drape is very important. Thank you also for showing the different ways one can use shoulder pads or padding. I can't say enough how wonderful the times we are living are, to have access to information from such profesionals like you is priceless. Have a great Holiday Season and tons of great health for The New Year 2021!
Oh, Ms. Zoe!!! I was mesmerized watching your video!!! You have inspired me to the point that I located a couture instructor near me!!! I live in the Conejo Valley in Southern California. We started draping me to make a pattern for pants that fit me. 37" waist and hip 53". Challenging!! 😣 This is a new dimension for me, since my hoby is cooking. I am too excited for words!!! I cannot wait for my next lesson this coming week. All because your kind generosity in sharing your amazing knowledge. I can watch you draw and talk about fashion all day long. Thank you, thank YOU, Ms. Zoe!! 🌺🤗🌺
Thankyou, this was so helpful, your way of explaining is so good to listen to, and visually what you show really gets the point across. I ABSOLUTELEY LOVE the overdone examples LOL (like the horsehair braid skirt) many people will only show things which are "perfect" and it doesn't teach you much. As well as anything this is entertaining to watch!
I think you're a mind reader because I was literally up all night last night trying to mentally grasp volume in dresses. Then I wake up to this in my suggested! I need to go through your videos to see if you've already done this but if not, could you talk us through different styles of sleeves? I love your channel so much!
Great video! Thank you. It’s really a great reminder that we can take historical underpinning and modernize them to create something totally new and fun. Also, I loved that black dress with the dyed horsehair braid. I want to incorporate that into a design soon!
thanks Zoe, I'm desperately trying to figure out how to poof up a pleated skirt. My sewing skills aren't the best so I'll def look into the materials you mentioned. Tulle seems the simplest and most cost effective in my case.
Love this! I got a half scale dress form last week. Your videos are always so helpful! It's like the icing on the design school cake, always refreshing and adding to the techniques i learned in school. You're the BEST!
Very interesting presentation! It is a challenge to work with these types of fabrics. I used tulle as interfacing when sewing a garment and it worked like a charm
I love your channel. its like you know what I'm working on then you make a video about that topic. I've spent the last week and a half researching adding structure and horse hair braid to a garment for a piece I'm about to start working on . this helps a lot. thank you!
Thank you for the shoulder pad tip!! I’m trying to make some costumes for drag and just one a lil volume and shape to certain parts - so I’ll definitley play around with them!!
so wonderful and valuable thank you! In my program, we have only really learned the basics and nothing about volume so with that knowledge and this combined I cant wait to explore. I just finally ordered a dress form so I cant wait to try out some of those shoulder pad draping techniques you mentioned!
This is EXACTLY the video I was looking for, I just couldn't articulate the visions I had in my mind. Also, I purchased the fashion figures when they were on sale a few weeks ago. LOVE them!
Thank you so much Zoe!!!❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏 You are an angel for uploading this. Stay safe always and God bless...all your videos are very helpful to all of us here on your channel.
Thank you so much for all knowlage you share with us. I have learned much more from you then I've learned on my collage studies, many years ago, twelve!!! Your way of teaching is so clear and quality, understandable. Greetings and lot of love from Serbia, Europe! 💖🤗
So much good info for a design student not familiar with fabric behaviour yet. I do wish interfacing came in a myriad colors (if manufacturers out there are watching your video).
got here cause I’m torn between wearing a hoop or a petticoat skirt for my hi-low civil wedding dress. I want to add volume and shorten the front a bit for a more dramatic hi-low look sortha like the reference picture. My dilemma being if the short hoop skirt would look ridiculous or outdated /seating down might expose everything or that the petticoat might be weighted down by the dress and look bad/make me look heavy since I’m mid size. I don’t plan on sewing since I’m not good and even though I haven’t decided yet 😂 it was very helpful and gave me a couple things to consider. ❤❤❤
Hi Zoe! Thank you once again for the textile teaching. The educator in you always prevails ❤️! On another note where did you get the dress form? Inquiring minds would like to know.
Zoe it's nice to see all those interfacing you taught today but do fashion designer use shoulder pads on hip for any dress to bring the illuminous volume
It's not about specifically shoulder pads. It's a more avant garde form of play, to distort, exaggerate, alter the body underneath to play with the concept of dressing a body.
Amazingly, Excellent tutorial, Just on questions do you know what is the material Dior uses for the 2025 haute cuture show to make the skirts so fluffy? Is it wood, metal or plastic? What do you think is best to use?
This is the first videos that I've watched on your channel and I'm highly enlightened with the whole content and it's very knowledgeable..thanks!🫰🏼 Keep posting more such helpful videos for us beginners!
I am a programmer and I live in India, I want to be a designer, can I persue it without a degree and get into it? I would love if you guide. And this video is amazing helped me a lot.
I still never made a tulle petticoat because it is pain to work with tulle so my garments are not very volumonous unless cartiradge pleating or gathering was used.
This was awesome! I've been ordering small armies of fabric samples so I can better understand materials, what they feel like, how they move, ect. Is there anything else I can be doing to familiarize myself with various fabrics?
Thank you so much for replying! I've got the Fabric for Fashion Swatch book and its one of my most loved. Can't wait to get started on your other recommendations. @@zoehongteaches
I got my half size dress form from Royal: royaldressforms.com/ (not sponsored) (Not 100% recommending it YET, because this video is the first time I've used it.)
what book were you using for the added fullness portion (timestamp 12:40)
@@itsethan77 Helen Joseph Armstrong's Patternmaking for Fashion Designers
hi, how do you think you could add volume to a light weight knitted skirt
The distancing comment at 1:15 got me good!
Hahahaha you want a hoop skirt now, don'tcha? hahahaha
This video is exactly what I need 😳 My final collection is full of tulles and drapes and gathering and I was so lost on how to materialize my ideas 😔 Thanks for saving me again Zoe ❤
You got this!
@@zoehongteaches Thanks a lot 😊
I'm not even a designer but I just come here to be entertained and educated! this was the best 17:37 mins of my day :) thanks Zoe
Aw thanks!
Zoe, can you read my mind?
Thats was exactly what I needed.
Have fun testing these methods!
Using the horsehair tape on the white tulle wedding dress was stunning. I learn so much from you....thanks for putting in the time and effort to do this for us!
That mini dress form is the cutest ever. Is it too late to ask Santa for one?
I love it. Prepping for and shooting this video is the first time I'm playing with it but I love it so far. It's exactly half measurements so you can drape and translate to full size patterns easily. MATH!
@@zoehongteaches where did you buy this tiny dress form? Can you recommend it?
@@dianagold7888 Check out her pinned comment at the top!
👍
I loved this video, thank you so much! Especially what you say at the end, “if you’re limited by a lack of knowledge, you’re limited in the kind of designer you can be”.
Zoe I've done Bridal alterations for going on 30 years. I've always had an attitude of "keep learning" . This coming year I'm branching out into design Bridal. You are a treasure. I love your videos and you are spot on , on all your advice. I chose the business route over two decades ago and never looked back. I laugh often at girls who want to have a custom gown but have absolutely no idea how the fabric they love will drape or look on a mannequin or a body. lol.
I love the videos you and others produce, and you're generous to share. ❤❤❤
Love, love, love this video Zoe Hong! You made me remember that when the animated version of Beauty & The Beast came out I heard someone saying that they wanted to recreate Belle's yellow gown in charmeuse. Knowing fabrics and how they fall or drape is very important. Thank you also for showing the different ways one can use shoulder pads or padding. I can't say enough how wonderful the times we are living are, to have access to information from such profesionals like you is priceless. Have a great Holiday Season and tons of great health for The New Year 2021!
Happy holidays to you too!
And i to say that you are the best fashion teacher i have seen in RUclips
The horse fabric for the horsehair braid method is imprinted in my head now, good learning
Oh, Ms. Zoe!!!
I was mesmerized watching your video!!! You have inspired me to the point that I located a couture instructor near me!!! I live in the Conejo Valley in Southern California. We started draping me to make a pattern for pants that fit me. 37" waist and hip 53". Challenging!! 😣
This is a new dimension for me, since my hoby is cooking. I am too excited for words!!! I cannot wait for my next lesson this coming week. All because your kind generosity in sharing your amazing knowledge. I can watch you draw and talk about fashion all day long.
Thank you, thank YOU, Ms. Zoe!!
🌺🤗🌺
How fantastic! Sounds fun! Good luck!
Thankyou, this was so helpful, your way of explaining is so good to listen to, and visually what you show really gets the point across. I ABSOLUTELEY LOVE the overdone examples LOL (like the horsehair braid skirt) many people will only show things which are "perfect" and it doesn't teach you much. As well as anything this is entertaining to watch!
This was so helpful! I am just a cosplayer and costume enthusiast but all the things you talked about were amazing!
You’re so easy to understand. I’ve sewn for years. I love how you show concepts in all the different linings and fabrics! 💗
I think you're a mind reader because I was literally up all night last night trying to mentally grasp volume in dresses. Then I wake up to this in my suggested! I need to go through your videos to see if you've already done this but if not, could you talk us through different styles of sleeves? I love your channel so much!
Nope, I haven't done a sleeves video. I do have a Fashion Vocabulary playlist with some other "types" videos.
So helpful!! I've watched this twice and I'm sure I'll be watching it at least a few more times since there's so much new information for me
I was bound to like anyhow, but the dedication to the horse print fabric with the horse hair braid... That is true artistry! 😂❤
You are the best online Teacher I ever have!!XOXO ...
Love yaaa
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thank you..🙈🙈🙈 for highlighting my comment!!!
I’m literally taking time to study by watching everything on your page! Thank you for this ❤
The horsey, horse-hair braid dress was horrible! I loved it!
hahahahahahahah~
Great video! Thank you. It’s really a great reminder that we can take historical underpinning and modernize them to create something totally new and fun. Also, I loved that black dress with the dyed horsehair braid. I want to incorporate that into a design soon!
Love learning from Zoe.
Your videos make me feel so unstoppable!
thanks Zoe, I'm desperately trying to figure out how to poof up a pleated skirt. My sewing skills aren't the best so I'll def look into the materials you mentioned. Tulle seems the simplest and most cost effective in my case.
Horse hair is beautiful. Will definitely try this
I've used horsehair braid beneath a zipper working with velveteen material. Produces a quality made zipper.
You've made my day, you're hilarious lol "horse material for horse hair braid demonstration" LMAOOOO Love it all!!
Love this! I got a half scale dress form last week. Your videos are always so helpful! It's like the icing on the design school cake, always refreshing and adding to the techniques i learned in school. You're the BEST!
Fascinating.You manage to teach in a way where the mass of information becomes so easy and understandable.
Very interesting presentation! It is a challenge to work with these types of fabrics. I used tulle as interfacing when sewing a garment and it worked like a charm
I love your channel. its like you know what I'm working on then you make a video about that topic. I've spent the last week and a half researching adding structure and horse hair braid to a garment for a piece I'm about to start working on . this helps a lot. thank you!
Thank you for the shoulder pad tip!! I’m trying to make some costumes for drag and just one a lil volume and shape to certain parts - so I’ll definitley play around with them!!
so wonderful and valuable thank you! In my program, we have only really learned the basics and nothing about volume so with that knowledge and this combined I cant wait to explore. I just finally ordered a dress form so I cant wait to try out some of those shoulder pad draping techniques you mentioned!
Yay! Have fun!
This is EXACTLY the video I was looking for, I just couldn't articulate the visions I had in my mind. Also, I purchased the fashion figures when they were on sale a few weeks ago. LOVE them!
You are actually such a queen. Love u sm
Thank you so much Zoe!!!❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏 You are an angel for uploading this. Stay safe always and God bless...all your videos are very helpful to all of us here on your channel.
You're welcome! Stay safe too!
Your videos make me so happy. Liek there’s no other way to describe it
Aww thank you!
I love you! thank you for existing and for sharing it all with us
gotta love a new zoe hong video!
Thanks!
Yes I learn something new today, and it really helpful and also gain knowledge , so thank you (ma'am) for this another useful video
👏👏👏 Grandiosa Explicación 🙌. Gracias 💞. Saludos desde Argentina 🙋
Honestly, you always give me everything I need. I appreciate your channel !!
O wow this was 17 minutes?? It felt like 5 this is awesomeeee!!!! Thanks so much!!! 🤗🤗🤗🤗
Thank you so much for all knowlage you share with us. I have learned much more from you then I've learned on my collage studies, many years ago, twelve!!! Your way of teaching is so clear and quality, understandable. Greetings and lot of love from Serbia, Europe! 💖🤗
Big fan, love you Zoe. I have learnt so much from you within this past year. Thank you so much and appreciate your efforts always ❤️
You are so welcome!
Hello, seriously ma'am how did you know I wanted this! I really needed this lecture thank you Lord bless you more
Glad it was helpful!
I luv your sense of humour :3
This is exactly the inspiration I needed at this time! Thanks Zoe!
So much good info for a design student not familiar with fabric behaviour yet. I do wish interfacing came in a myriad colors (if manufacturers out there are watching your video).
At least one in between white and black, maybe a medium gray or brown for those middle fabric colors...
So helpful and informative as always! Thank you Miss Z!
This channel is a puffy gem❣
I love your sketches.
love your explanations of various fabrics and the notions to use with them.
Thank you so much!
got here cause I’m torn between wearing a hoop or a petticoat skirt for my hi-low civil wedding dress. I want to add volume and shorten the front a bit for a more dramatic hi-low look sortha like the reference picture. My dilemma being if the short hoop skirt would look ridiculous or outdated /seating down might expose everything or that the petticoat might be weighted down by the dress and look bad/make me look heavy since I’m mid size. I don’t plan on sewing since I’m not good and even though I haven’t decided yet 😂 it was very helpful and gave me a couple things to consider. ❤❤❤
beautiful photography Zoe. thankyou x
Fantastic video! Thank you so much!! I had to subscribe and I wasn't even looking for fashion videos. Yay!!!
You are SUCH and inspiration for me, just to let you know :D
(My dream occupation is a fashion designer)
Your drawing is amazzzzzinggg!
Zoe, thanks so much as always for passing on all your knowledge!
I love your videos. Very informative and entertaining. Thank you for sharing.
You're welcome!
Really wonderful information. Thank you!
Love the horses! Thanks! ^_^
You are too funny! Love your videos!
Love your nerdiness!
hahahaha thanks!
I wanna be a fashion designer but I don’t know enough, ima subscribe.
I love you, Zoe! I learn so much from you ❤️
Happy to help!
Truly materials science! 😉 Definitely helpful insights. Many thx!
Hi Zoe! Thank you once again for the textile teaching. The educator in you always prevails ❤️! On another note where did you get the dress form? Inquiring minds would like to know.
royaldressforms.com/
@@zoehongteaches thank you! How do they compare to the basic Wolf dress form/ dress form?
@@tommiespriggs9606 I don't know. This is my first time using it.
Zoe it's nice to see all those interfacing you taught today but do fashion designer use shoulder pads on hip for any dress to bring the illuminous volume
It's not about specifically shoulder pads. It's a more avant garde form of play, to distort, exaggerate, alter the body underneath to play with the concept of dressing a body.
@@zoehongteaches thanks Zoe😀😀
Zoë is the best!
Great video! Beautiful fashion designs!
thank you so much for this video!
Amazing video thank you :)
Fabric comparability would be an awesome video in and of itself 💚
I have a whole Fabrics playlist.
@@zoehongteaches I saw that after I made the comment hahaha sorry :)
This was very informative.... thanks for sharing your knowledge...
You're welcome!
Thank you for this!
Thanks Zoe! I learnt something new today
You're welcome!
Thanks and love Zoe
Amazingly, Excellent tutorial, Just on questions do you know what is the material Dior uses for the 2025 haute cuture show to make the skirts so fluffy? Is it wood, metal or plastic? What do you think is best to use?
This is the first videos that I've watched on your channel and I'm highly enlightened with the whole content and it's very knowledgeable..thanks!🫰🏼
Keep posting more such helpful videos for us beginners!
I am a programmer and I live in India, I want to be a designer, can I persue it without a degree and get into it? I would love if you guide. And this video is amazing helped me a lot.
Luvya Miss Zoe!
This is something I really needed. Thank you.😘🤍
You're welcome!
Zoe, I love u！ 👩🏫
Amazing insight and information 🥰
This is great! Where is the mini dress form from?
great!!! and can you tell me where you got that mannequin???
Awesome love this...
Learned a new way to use shoulder pads 🥳
Have fun!
I still never made a tulle petticoat because it is pain to work with tulle so my garments are not very volumonous unless cartiradge pleating or gathering was used.
Bouncy flounce: Extreme ruffling competition 😍🤣🖤
Who designed the purple dress at 4:46? So pretty!
This video is so informative
Thanks!
i just want to say thank you.
You're welcome!
This was awesome! I've been ordering small armies of fabric samples so I can better understand materials, what they feel like, how they move, ect. Is there anything else I can be doing to familiarize myself with various fabrics?
You're on the right track. There's some really good books out there. My recs are at amazon.com/shop/zoehong
Thank you so much for replying! I've got the Fabric for Fashion Swatch book and its one of my most loved. Can't wait to get started on your other recommendations. @@zoehongteaches
thank you 💚
Fantastic! A great overview!
Glad you liked it!
Please what's the title of the book you showed on the video?
I'd really want to get one.
I oooooo needed this video. Thanks
You're welcome!