Custom dressmaking and tailoring: developing a new garment, with design, fabric and fit considered together.
Read about custom garment workAlterations, dressmaking, and tailoring in Sioux Falls
A garment begins with an idea
David’s Digital brings David’s sewing work together online, with custom dressmaking and tailoring at the center. Explore an approach to creating a garment around the person who will wear it: its shape, the feel of the cloth and the details that make it useful.
The website is in development, and new custom garment commissions are not currently being accepted.
Planning a garment from the beginning
Custom garment work gives you room to consider the whole piece. The design, fabric and construction all affect how it hangs, how it moves and how it feels through a day of wear.
A clear starting point might be a garment you have imagined, a useful detail from something you already own, or a fit question you have not been able to resolve with ready-made clothing. The custom tailoring page explains the decisions involved.
Find the right part of the site
Each part of David’s Digital has a different purpose. Choose the one that matches what you want to make or change.
Alterations: understanding possible changes to an existing garment and finding the alterations customer account.
Explore AlterationsPatterns: exploring sewing patterns in development, practical guides and the Pattern Journal for people who sew.
Visit the Pattern StudioMeet David
David is an alterations specialist, dressmaker and costume designer based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He began sewing at age 12 or 13 and has made outfits for others since 1989. His digital design experience shapes the developing pattern side of the site.