Make and Customize Your First Bomber Jacket
History and Design
A course by Lydia Higginson , Pattern Designer and Seamstress
Joined September 2020
Joined September 2020
About the video: History and Design
Overview
“In this lesson, I will share the incredibly rich history of the bomber jacket from the 1940s to the present day.”
In this video lesson Lydia Higginson addresses the topic: History and Design, which is part of the Domestika online course: Make and Customize Your First Bomber Jacket. Create clothes your body loves: learn how to make your own custom jacket from scratch with a sewing machine, from the initial pattern to final outfit.
Partial transcription of the video
“History and Design In this course, I'll be teaching you how to make a bomber jacket. I love these jackets because they're super versatile to wear. You can throw them on over so many different outfits. They're great in different seasons. There are so many different ways you can customise them to make them your own. The bomber jacket has had many different lives. Before we begin designing yours, I'll give you a quick history lesson on where it came from. The first leather jackets were made during World War I for fighter pilots, hence the name bomber jackets. They were thick with leather and f...”
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Course summary for: Make and Customize Your First Bomber Jacket
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Category
Craft, Fashion -
Areas
Fashion Design, Patternmaking & Dressmaking, Sewing
Lydia Higginson
A course by Lydia Higginson
Lydia Higginson is a UK-based seamstress and pattern designer, who only wears the clothes she’s made. Since starting her personal project “Made My Wardrobe” in 2016, she has not bought a single item of clothing from a shop. It started as a personal journey to reconnect with her body and has turned into a full-time business, sharing her garment-making skills with anyone who wants to make their dream wardrobe. Made My Wardrobe now has a team of six designers, and they create patterns, kits and courses to make sewing accessible from their studio in Bristol.
Lydia has been sewing since she was a young girl, and when she finished school, she did an apprenticeship to learn how to design and make garments. Since then, she has been creating costumes for theaters, and live performances for clients such as Sadler's Wells and The Royal Opera House.
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