The CTDA Courses
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Blue Pencil
$99.00 – $199.00Next Class: January 2025
Where: Conrad Midtown Hotel, New York CityThis course is meant to help you understand how the measurements and posture descriptions you send to your CMT shop affect the garments they make for you. The course will cover common pattern changes, including explanations and recognition of different postures which warrants the changes. Blue pencil is a step that is taken before the garment is made. This is a CTDA Accredited Course.
Taught by Mr. Len Log...
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Business
$99.00 – $199.00Next Class: January 2025
Where: Conrad Midtown Hotel, New York CityBusiness Planning: Even long term, well established businesses make a new business plan almost every year. For successful businesses, the process is essential. The discipline of examining and/or reexamining your mission, margins, and needs of your ever evolving customer demographic helps you achieve ever higher goals and makes every decision, from what to spend on advertising to what to spend your time on, easier...
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Custom Shirts
$99.00 – $199.00Duration: 1.5 Hours
Date: Sunday, July 21, 2024
Time: 12 PM to 1:30 PMWhere: The Luxury Collection Hotel Manhattan Midtown (formerly the Conrad Hotel), 151 W. 54th Street, New York, NY 10019 (2nd floor – Modern room)
This course covers understanding the elements of style as it relates to shirts – including color, fabric, anatomy of a shirt and collars, cuff styles, trims and appliqués, and balance.
Taught by: Mitch Gambert, of Mel Gambert Sh...
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Fabric Knowledge
$99.00 – $199.00Next Class: January 2025
Where: Conrad Midtown Hotel, New York City – 2nd floor – Modern roomThis course covers an understanding of the quality of fabrics, fabric care, uses, performance, weights, yarn dyes and production processes. This course is designed to provide a solid foundation in fabric principles, and a better understanding of how to help clients select the right fabric for the right reasons. This course includes extensive printed materials. This is a CTDA ...
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Fitting & Alterations
$99.00 – $199.00Duration: 2.5 Hours
Date: Sunday, July 21, 2024
Time: 2 PM to 4:30 PM
Where: The Luxury Collection Hotel Manhattan Midtown (formerly the Conrad Hotel), 151 W. 54th Street, New York, NY 10019 (2nd floor – Modern room)This course will help you recognize and correct problems with finished garments. You will also learn to properly communicate these adjustments to your CTM house to help eliminate problems with finished garments. Marking for alterations shou...
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Measuring Class
$99.00 – $199.00Duration: 2.5 Hours
Date: Sunday, July 21, 2024
Time: 9 AM to 11:30 AM
Where: The Luxury Collection Hotel Manhattan Midtown (formerly the Conrad Hotel), 151 W. 54th Street, New York, NY 10019 (2nd floor – Modern room)This course covers measuring for all custom garments including jackets, pants, and shirts. The time will be divided between classroom instruction and hands-on demonstrations. Standard measurement ranges, recognition of posture problems, illustratio...
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Style
$99.00 – $199.00Next Class: January 2025
Where: The Luxury Collection Hotel Manhattan Midtown (formerly the Conrad Hotel), New York CityThis course deals with recognizing silhouettes and details and understanding how to apply them appropriately to each body type. From jackets, pants and overcoats to shirts, the clothier must be an expert at manipulating style for the customer. This is a CTDA Accredited Course.
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The CTDA at the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC
$60.00The CTDA at the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC
Date: Sunday, July 21, 2024
Wine & Hors d’oeuvres (networking) 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Where: Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC, 227 West 27th Street (meet in lobby of Feldman Center Bldg. C – look for the blue arch)
Cost: $60 per person – The tour is sold out. This is for the cocktail party only at 7 pm.
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