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Designer and Dressmaker’s Garment Center Resource Guide

  • All levels
  • 18 and older
  • $95
  • 227 W 27th St, New York, NY
  • 6 hours

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  • $95
  • Fashion Institute of Technology @ 227 W 27th St, New York, NY 10001
  • 6 hours
  • Course & Section: SXT 130 55A
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Class Description

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What you'll learn in this fashion design class:

Are you an established dressmaker or young designer in need of high-caliber professional fabric and trim? Then this is the opportunity of your dreams. 

Get the inside scoop on the places used by experienced NYC-based designers for producing samples and even full collections. Discover Garment Center resources for sewing, trims, and specialty decorations such as beads, braids, feathers, and flowers. Tour businesses that feature breathtaking fabrication at wholesale prices and learn the how-to’s of using jobbers correctly. 

Program includes specialty resources for silk, a staple for all top design houses, and sources to get prints made domestically.

Program starts with an overview at the school and proceeds up 7th Avenue on foot.

Note: 
Room Information is available at the main security desk at the FIT Feldman Center on 27th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues. Also, check room postings in the Fred P. Pomerantz Art and Design Center lobby (7th avenue at 27th Street), by security, or call the day of class for locations: 212-217-8741 or 212-217-3334.

Refund Policy

Continuing and Professional Studies Refund Policy:

Courses canceled 24 business hours in advance can be fully refunded. Courses that have 2 sessions has 25% refund after first session. Courses that have 3 sessions has 50% refund after first session; No refund after second session. Courses that have 4 sessions will have 50% refund after first session and 25% refund after second session and no refund after third session. Courses that have 5 or more sessions has 75% refund after first session, 50% after second session and 25% after third session and no refund after fourth session.

Please note that there are no makeup sessions and it is highly recommended students attend all sessions of classes they sign up for. They are short, intensive courses and missing one day is missing a lot. 


Precollege Programs Refund Policy:

The $15 registration fee is not refundable.

The refund period ends prior to the second scheduled session of the class, in accordance with the following:

FIT Precollege Programs canceled the course due to low enrollment :
100% including registration fee


Withdrawal prior to the last day of registration :
100% exclusive of registration fee

Withdrawal prior to first day of class:
75% exclusive of registration fee

Withdrawal prior to second day of class:
50% exclusive of registration fee

Withdrawal thereafter:
No refund

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  • Designer and Dressmaker’s Garment Center Resource Guide

    Anonymous review on 4/8/2017
    Just didn't seem well structured. I thought we would be talking to the store owners, we basically just walked in and looked around. Provided a work sheet at the start with name and info, but not much else.
  • Designer and Dressmaker’s Garment Center Resource Guide

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