PROGRAMS | PERSONAL SERVICES
SEWING & CLOTHING MANUFACTURING
This course serves as an excellent springboard into the exciting and challenging world of fashion. Job opportunities are plentiful for those with the required career skills. Students learn both from introductory and advanced techniques of today’s fashion apparel industry. From following purchased design patterns to creating personal fashion statements, students acquire the skills and related knowledge to mark, cut, and sew a wide variety of fashions and clothing. Interested students should possess originality, creativity, manual dexterity, and ambition. While many students utilize this course for entry into the apparel industry directly from high school, some students decide to pursue their study at a specialized collegiate school of fashion design.
Recommended Scope and Sequence * This link will connect you to the scope and sequence which lists the recommended high school and postsecondary courses for students in this program of study. This information will be valuable when scheduling courses or investigating postsecondary options. It is recommended that students take the highest level academics possible in order to take full advantage of their program. These rigorous academics will provide a seamless transition into postsecondary education without remediation and provide a student with the general knowledge necessary for the industry.
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Potential Earnings
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Job Titles
13-1022 Retail Buyer
41-9011 Demonstrators and Product Promoters
51-6021 Pressers, Textile, Garment, and Related Materials
51-6031 Sewing Machine Operators
51-6052 Tailors, Dressmakers, and Custom Sewers
Articulation Agreements
Pennsylvania College of Technology
Art Institute of Philadelphia
Student Certifications
NOCTI - National Occupational Competency Testing Institute Certification
* Clothing & Textiles Production & Management
INSTRUCTOR
Mrs. Carol Keiser
Biography
I am a graduate of Reading High School and RMAVTS.
Date of hire: September 2006
Education
I am pursuing my Vocational I Certificate through Temple University.
Experience
I worked for 17 years in a tailor shop and then owned my own tailoring business prior to teaching.
Interests
Gardening, traveling, and relaxing
Message
I encourage any young adult who has an interest in sewing to pursue their dreams, either in fashion or just to be creative.
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