Bra Making and Fitting – The Complete Course

This course is currently in production and being tested. Stay tuned to our YouTube and social media accounts for when this class is available.

This course includes a variety of classes including:

Underwires 101 - covers underwire styles, shapes and sizes. How to do a wire trace on your body and select the best wire. Bending the wire for your own shape.

Cutting and Tipping Underwires - covers what tools to use to cut wires down and how to tip the wires.

Creating a Fitting Band - covers sewing construction of a fitting band, attaching elastics, casings, hooks and eyes and inserting underwires. Evaluation of the band fitting.

Sampling Cups for Fit - covers trying new cups and fitting the cups into the band and on the body.

January 2021 Live Draft Along Copy

The January 2021 Live Draft Along is hosted by Jane Ramsay and Kristen Kemp, moderators of the Support Group for Bare Essentials. Both women have a unique style and way of presenting material, so you are encouraged to watch both presentations.

This course is no longer available for purchase. If you purchased this course, you have forever access to this course.

Bra Pattern Drafting Course – Kristen Kemp Instructor

This comprehensive video course is part of a drafting bundle that includes purchase of the Third Edition of Bare Essentials: Bras, this video course, and access to Kristen as an instructor through the drafting and fitting process.

Jennifer has broken all the videos into small steps. Videos may be as short as 30 seconds but as long as 10 minutes depending on what the discussion is about.

A note from Jennifer: "While I do my best to provide the most professional presentation possible, I am doing everything - teaching, filming and editing. As a normal human and a mother, I often mix up my words. I have done my best to note on the screen when I was using the completely incorrect term. I am far from being a Craftsy class, so know what you are getting yourself into - a real human teacher who makes real human mistakes."

This is advanced drafting material. If you have never drafted anything in your life, you will likely struggle with some of the basic terminology and drafting concepts. This is precisely why we have collaborated to offer access to an instructor, so that you have the ability to talk it through with someone, while you're drafting. As part of the bundle, you will schedule a 10 day session with Kristen where she sets aside that time for just a couple students, so she isn't overloaded and can get to your questions.

Once your coaching session is over, you may comment with questions at the end of the lesson you have a question on and Kristen will respond and keep the comments live so everyone can benefit from the questions and answers. While Kristen would love to provide unwavering and complete support for everyone all the time, it's physically and mentally possible to do so.

We encourage you to join the Facebook group: Support for Bare Essentials (click here) to post pictures and receive feedback on your progress from your peers. Jennifer and Kristen both follow the group and comment when available.

To register for this class, click here to add to your shopping cart and check out.


 

Business Entrepreneurship

This course is in the process of testing and should be available in July/August 2021.

January 2021 Live Draft Along

The January 2021 Live Draft Along is hosted by Jane Ramsay and Kristen Kemp, moderators of the Support Group for Bare Essentials. Both women have a unique style and way of presenting material, so you are encouraged to watch both presentations.

This course is no longer available for purchase. If you purchased this course, you have forever access to this course.

Fashion Illustration Course

This illustration course was originally designed as training material for instructors teaching at Porcelynne's Design Institute. The book Drawing Fashion was created from the original outline we taught from. This course is instructed by Han Vu, one of our instructors and an instrumental individual in the development of the book.

Drawing Fashion was passed over to Vasanthi Puttigampu for completion. While, Vasanthi's and Han's techniques vary, this course shows a different approach to fashion illustration. Every teacher has their own techniques for instructing and many techniques are easier to explain by the physical act of demonstration. We altered the book for the easiest approach to achieve a similar result.

This course was not filmed with the intention of creating a course, but the information is invaluable, so I opted to release it. Please note that this was filmed during business hours in my store and contain a lot of background noise. There is a lot of good information that is spoken, but if you are easily distracted, you can watch the video and listen to the audio and then re-watch the videos on mute to get the full experience.

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