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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.

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Entry-level earnings
$10,000-$20,000 annually

Career potential earnings
$20,000-$40,000 annually

Student certifications

NOCTI - National Occupational Competency Testing Institute Certification

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.