Study at home learning to work in Fashion.
If you want a career in Fashion, our tutor supported open distance learning Fashion course provides the necessary knowledge, skills and qualification without disrupting your current lifestyle.
The DCA Home Learning Fashion course provides training in the core skills needed to embark on a rewarding career in Fashion. The DCA supported self-study Fashion course is specially designed, allowing you to learn the skills of Fashion through flexible and cost-effective home study at your own time and pace.
With the DCA Home Learning Fashion course, online study resources and a personal tutor are available to guide you throughout the course, and your Student Advisor is a Freephone call away. What's more, because the distance learning Fashion course is so comprehensive, no prior knowledge or skills are required. The DCA Fashion course provides an entry level diploma as proof our your competence and skills.
If you'd like to earn more money and enjoy working in Fashion, the DCA home study course is the ideal distance learning training course for you.
Sewing Essentials:
• Equipment you will need
• Patterns and fabric
• Layout, cutting and marking
• Sewing techniques
• Darts, gathers, pleats, and tucks
• Collars, waistbands and hems
• Closures
The Clothing and Textile Industries:
• Why people wear and select certain types of clothes
• Fashion terms and clothing construction terms
• The clothing business and fashion cycles
• Socio-economic influences on fashion
• Basic styles for dresses
• Necklines, collars, sleeves
• Skirts, trousers, coats and jackets
• Haute-Couture
• Designer ready-to-wear
• The business of clothing production
• Establishing merchandising plans
• The designing process
• Fashion promotion
• Types of apparel retail outlets
Types of Textile Fibres, Colour, Value and Quality:
• Natural fibres
• Manufactured fibres
• Fabric construction, colouring and printing
• Fabric finishes and popular apparel fabrics
• Colour as a design element
• Using colour in clothing
• Shape, line and texture
• Wardrobe planning
• Being a smart shopper
• Judging value and quality
• Proper fit
• Clothing needs for infants and young children
• Needs of older people and pregnant women
• The caring and storage of clothes
Careers in Fashion Merchandising and Design:
• Production marketing and sales
• Administration
• Clothing design careers
• Production management
• Sales and retail jobs
• Merchandise planning and buying
• Fashion advertising
• Fashion publicity
• Home sewing industry
• Textile and clothing historians
• Theatrical consumers
• Landing a job and becoming successful |
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| I am loving my fashion course and hope to receive my next module very soon. DCA provide a much better and more personable service (plus quicker response) than the other course provider, so I am hoping to enrol in another course once I have completed the fashion one. — Carolyn Macphee |
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| "This education has given me a complete understanding of the different aspects of the fashion design field." — F Johnson |
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