The CTDA Courses
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Blue Pencil
$99.00 – $199.00Duration: 3 Hours
Date: July 22, 2023
Time: 1 PM to 4 PM
Where: Conrad New York Midtown Hotel, 151 W. 54th Street, NYC 10019This 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...
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Business
$99.00 – $199.00When: Saturday, January 20, 2024
Time: 9 am to 2 pm (with lunch break)
Where: Conrad Hotel, New York City, Plume Theatre (lobby level)Business 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...
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Custom Shirts
$99.00 – $199.00Duration: 1.5 Hours
Date: Saturday, January 21, 2923
When: 3 PM to 4:30 PM
Where: Conrad Midtown NYC, 151 W. 54th Street, New York, NY 10019This 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 Shirt Makers
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Fabric Knowledge
$99.00 – $199.00Duration: 2 Hours
Date: Saturday, January 21, 2023
Time: 9 am to 11 am
Where: Conrad Hotel, Plume Theatre (1st floor), 151 W. 54th Street, New York, NY 10019This 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. T...
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Fitting & Alterations
$99.00 – $199.00Duration: 3 Hours
Date: Saturday, July 22, 2023
Time: 9 AM to 12 PM
Where: Conrad Midtown NYC, 151 W. 54th Street, New York, NY 10019 (Plume conference room, adjacent to Dabble restaurant)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 should be done succinctly and using standard ma...
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Measuring Class
$99.00 – $199.00Duration: 3 Hours
Date: Saturday, January 21, 2023
Time: 12 pm to 3 pm
Where: Conrad Hotel, Plume Theatre (1st floor), 151 W. 54th Street, New York, NY 10019This 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, illustrations of “putting the goods where they belong”, and guidelines on...
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Style
$99.00 – $199.00Date: Saturday, January 20, 2024
Time: 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Where: Conrad Midtown NYC, 151 W. 54th Street, New York, NY 10019 (Plume conference room, adjacent to Dabble restaurant)This 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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