I need directions how to hand make ski clothing!?

Question

I am in the process of creating a new ski company. I have a lot of my skis pressed and dressed in carbon fiber, looking fine. I also have a few sponsored skiers, and I need to dress them well. I do not want to purchase another brands clothing (competition!) So i was wondering if anyone knows of directions on how to make your own custom ski clothes.

Answer 1

You are launching a ski line AND a clothing line! Holy Cow!!!

I have a small bit of experience in making clothes...costumes actually. You need patterns first. Unless you want to buy a North Face TriClimate jacket and copy it exactly, I suggest you get a clothing designer. Otherwise, head to the gear store, buy something you want to copy, and take apart the clothes VERY carefully. That will be the template for your new threads.

You can make a pattern from that. Then you need a seamstress and a pattern maker. You'll have to buy material. You can't get bolts of Gore-Tex, Polartec, and Primaloft at Wal-Mart, so be prepared to start accounts with Malden Mills, WL Gore,and other fabric makers. That stuff comes in really big bolts...I hope you have some room. You'll also have to order stuff like seam sealer and tape to keep the seams waterproof. You'll have to pick up other raw materials like zippers, velcro, snaps, bungee cord, spring locks, thread, needles, etc.

Then you sew it all together and test it out.

Let me know when you get that together...I'll test your stuff if you don't mind me trying to destroy it in the process. How can I get my hands on the skis? I'll give them an evaluation too. I'd like to try them out. I ski a 180-185, set the DIN as high as it will go and mount the bindings for a Mondo 30. Alpine or Telemark set-up will do just fine. I prefer Rottefella Cobra 8 Hardwires for my tele-set-up (on a riser) or a Salomon 800 or 900 series on my alpine stuff. Center mount is OK for the tele set-up, but I like a 2mm front mounting for the bondage boards.

Answer 2

properly, Hunter is normally seen as "upstate"...I used to stay close to there. something fairly some hours north of NYC is "upstate", yet there is not any authentic geographic boundary...it particularly is extra a state of being. anyhow, as long as you have become training, you would be fantastic. snowboarding is a good interest, i've got skied all my existence. I surely have skied Hunter various situations, and you will locate it fairly is stuffed with human beings...basically a fact of existence, oh properly! Poles: your instructor shouldn't permit you utilize poles on the beginning up. i don't prepare now, yet I used to, and that i continuously left the poles to the area. they are not mandatory for what you would be doing in the time of your first few hours on skis, or maybe the 1st few days on skis. Legs: do not concern approximately your legs! All they do is carry you up, and the instructor will help with something. Face: you sound such as you would be able to desire to be slightly apprehensive. each and every now and then nerves will forestall the practise technique. do not concern! as quickly as I had apprehensive pupils, and each ski instructor does, I continuously instructed them to smile!! Smiles artwork miracles in relaxing nerves. purely smile, and permit gravity do something! outfits: do not positioned on denims. ideally, positioned on snow pants. arms: positioned on good mittens or gloves. even no count if it fairly is warm, positioned on gloves or mitts. Snow is composed of ice crystals. they are sharp, and that i've got seen human beings surely decrease purchase snow. Gloves shield your arms, continuously use them! Head: if it particularly is chilly, positioned on a hat (or helmet). have relaxing!!