Pat's Fashion Plates

Pat's Fashion Plates

Custom Designs for your Comfort and Wearing Pleasure

About Pat's Fashion Plates

Pat's Fashion Plates, LLC

presents

Patricia Jackson

Designer, dressmaker, seamstress, knitter and crocheter who creates fashions for your comfort and wearing pleasure since 1984.

Welcome!

I offer you the superb workmanship of an Haute Couture designer. Couture means dressmaking, sewing and needlework. Haute means high. Therefore, Haute Couture / High Fashion is what I produce. The purchase of an haute couture custom garment is made specifically for your measurements. These made to measure exclusive clothes are virtually made by hand, carefully lined and fitted for each client.

It is sometimes hard for a client to understand why the price is higher than off the rack prices. My service to you is superior workmanship, unique original design and the use of fine quality materials. You, the client, will get a fit only achieved by painstaking methods of measuring, cutting and fitting your body. The manual labor needed to produce a garment this way takes many hours. The finished product is what a "LADY OF DISTINCTION" wears.

Please note that as much as Pat's Fashion Plates tries to match garment colors to digital photograph colors there are some minor color inconsistencies.

Certifications:

	Trained Sewing Instructor
	Gentlemen's Garment Design
	Ladies Garment Design
	Shirt Design
	Tailoring

Memberships:

	Association of Sewing and Design Professionals
	National Association of Fashion and Accessory Designers - Washington DC Chapter Past President and Past Junior Director
	Knitting Guild Association
	Home Sewing Association
	International Fabricare Institute 1980-1990
	Saturday Stitchers Sew-ciety 1973-1977
	Sewing and Craft Alliance

Other:

	Profiled in, "Threads of Time: The Fabrics of History" written by Rosemary E Reed Miller
	Conducted "Career Day" Fashion Design Seminars in Prince Georges County Maryland and Washington DC Public Schools
	Design Workshop - Techniques of Crocheting - Smithsonian Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture - 2003
	Design Workshop - Techniques of Knitting - Smithsonian Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture - 2003
	Knitting demonstrations and Fashion Show - Smithsonian Folk Life Festival - 2000

You are invited to view samples of what I have to offer. I thank you for your time.

Patricia Jackson
2008