Fashion Designing; The Challenges so far

In my last article, I mentioned some criteria in pursuing fashion designing as a skill, how we can stand out as a skilled fashion designer. Today I will be sharing with us the challenges most fashion designers face in their learning process and their businesses. I would say it's not very easy to just learn fashion designing, but it's not impossible. Challenges are actually meant to make us strong and gain more experience.

Shortage of fund.

This is one major problem especially when it comes to making a dress. Not everyone are privileged to open a big fashion industry or shop. There are classes in almost all countries in this world including mine. Many customers will bring their fabric which needed to be sowed without making a deposit or down payment. This type of work might require some assesories or materials are needed to be bought. What happens if there is no sufficient funds for the person that wants to make the dress. Another annoying part is if you've actually find a way to get the money to buy what's needed and make the dress, and the customer is actually pleased with the dress, but such person refuses to pay on time or refuses to pay in full.

Lack of Enough Machineries.

As an upcoming fashion designer, we have a lot to put in place and that includes all necessary machines needed to make a dress. There are different machine performing different task. While I was still learning, my boss would send us else where to weave some clothes, because she does not have a weaving machine for herself. There is also a stoning machine which my boss does not have, we would always trek a long distance to another shop where we would pay and get the job done. All these machines are very expensive to get and if we don't have the type of machine that makes a particular dress then there is no possibly of getting people's patronage. I will give an example; if someone wants me to make a shirt and I don't have a machine that makes "button holes' and "finishing" then I can't make this dress, and even if I try to make it, it won't make a perfect shirt.

Unavailability of Clothing Materials

There are some materials that are difficult to find in a rural area or very scarce. To make a wedding dress for example requires a lot of different assesories to make them beautiful. What if they are not available where you are as a fashion designer?

All these points which I have stated above, comes with a lot of struggles, many are forced to travel to another place to get clothing materials that are not available or they are more cheaper elsewhere, many have handled customers rude behaviors and attitude. Many worked overnight just to get little or no gain. Learning process is even hard on its own. I remember always coming back home very late in the night and how I would always dogde overnight works in shop, I will always form one reasonable excuse because overnight works are always hectic and frustrating.

In a nutshell, these are challenges we are facing as a fashion designer. However, we didn't give up on it, many of us have overcomed these challenges, many of us her overcoming. There are always alternative in my country, there will always be a way out manage and fix ourself out.

Thank you for reading ♥️♥️♥️

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Let's hear the challenges you also have been encountering in any skills you have in the comment section.