Looking back, I won the Velvet Award when I was a fashion student. It was a dress with a combination design of denim and velvet materials. I remember writing "I will become a sample maker" in my graduation message.
About 60 years ago, when sewing was in its heyday, sewing workers mainly from all over western Japan gathered here in Shinichi-machi, Fukuyama City, and on Sundays, the town of Shinichi was crowded with female workers. Such a local scene is also changing now. Currently, the situation surrounding the industry is not good at all, such as how to stop sewing techniques that have become difficult to inherit due to the aging of engineers and mechanization.
I made my dream come true and started a sample production company. Now I am in a position to teach, and as a member of the "Committee for Succession of Textile Production Areas", I have launched a denim school and am active in curriculum creation and guidance.
The most important thing in making clothes is the pattern (blueprint). Next, it is a high level of sewing technology to sew together according to the instructions for stretching, shrinking, bulges and dents to create expressions. The pattern maker and the seamstress must be able to imagine the same finished product.
You are the designer of this trip. Please give us your thoughts and shapes. We will make one just for you. Why don't you make the real thing in Fukuyama?