Pocket of Resistance DIY is about the secret superpower of being a maker.
Here, you’ll learn to make all the things you put on and around yourself and others: clothes for life and work, shoes that help you walk, braces that make you able, gifts that delight or assist your loved ones.
Whether you’re an utter beginner or a veteran, never underestimate the power that creating your own wearables can give you. The first impressions you make, the comfort you feel in your own skin, the way other people react to you, even the career doors that are open to you – all these can hang on the way you clothe yourself.
What you wear can change your life
Think that’s an exaggeration? Then imagine showing up at an interview for the job of your dreams, but in an ill-fitting jacket in the wrong colour for you, which is straining across your chest, swimming at your waist, and makes you feel like you’ll rip a seam if you reach forward.
Now think about how that would affect your self-confidence, body language, and your interviewer’s subconscious thoughts about you.
You’re being limited, but you don’t have to be
Maybe you’ve never been able to find pants because your waist is 12 inches smaller than your hips. Or long-enough sleeves in a coat, or a jacket that didn’t also feel like a straitjacket, or a waistband that sits right in a wheelchair, or glorious boots for your size 12 feet, or a party outfit your non-binary child genuinely adores.
This is many people’s reality, and it’s probably yours too. The fashion industry only caters to a tiny sub-section of people. It tries to make us believe that we should all look/dress/consume like those few – and that there’s something wrong with us if we don’t conform.
But we can learn to resist the pressure. I propose that we rebel!
It’s not you, it’s the industry
Clothes should be made to fit you, not the other way around. I’ll show you the tools I used to free myself from the dictatorship of mass production and the myth of one-size/shape-fits-all. You really, truly can have the power to present yourself exactly the way you want the world to see you.
Here, no matter what your starting level, you’ll find DIY projects and tutorials to challenge you. Before you know it, you’ll start racking up skills you never dreamed were within your grasp. You’ll end up a more accomplished, well-rounded, and generally impressive human being than before you joined us – and you’ll look fabulous doing it.
