{"id":4924,"date":"2024-03-04T09:17:16","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T09:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.episodeplus.com\/wp\/?p=4924"},"modified":"2024-03-04T12:07:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T12:07:11","slug":"passion-for-dressmaking-keeps-her-mind-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.episodeplus.com\/wp\/2024\/03\/04\/passion-for-dressmaking-keeps-her-mind-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Passion for Dressmaking Keeps Her Mind Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4924\" class=\"elementor elementor-4924\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-96d0912 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"96d0912\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;content_width&quot;:&quot;boxed&quot;}\" data-core-v316-plus=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-eef373d elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"eef373d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.19.0 - 07-02-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/my.episodeplus.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/phang05-768x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-4926\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/my.episodeplus.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/phang05-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/my.episodeplus.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/phang05-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/my.episodeplus.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/phang05.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7119f24 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"7119f24\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;content_width&quot;:&quot;boxed&quot;}\" data-core-v316-plus=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-50ed7d5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-vankine-text-editor-v1\" data-id=\"50ed7d5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"vankine-text-editor-v1.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t   <div class=\"position-relative position_p_relative\">\r\n        <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">TAILOR Pang Ai Kim has long stopped taking orders for sewing clothes, but she has continued to teach dressmaking. The 75-year-old Pang\u2019s tailoring classes have always been full even though few people get their clothes tailored these days. Pang understands perfectly the interest in learning to sew.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Growing up, she used to watch every step in fascination as her mother makes an apparel from beginning to end. It led to her taking an advanced tailoring course in Kuala Lumpur after secondary school. But Pang had set her sight further. She was determined to learn the craft from the best, and in the 1970s the best dressmakers were in Italy.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, with only US$300 and head full of dreams, Pang took a leap and flew to Rome in 1972. She was 23, didn\u2019t speak Italian and had nothing lined up.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI was young and brave,\u201d recalls Pang who remains interested in how to sew. Even though she has been sewing since her teens, she remains interested in how a garment comes together. As a teacher, she takes the trouble to explain the nitty gritty of tailoring; from how to snip at curved seams so they fall neatly to how to place patterns on fabric to achieve the most beautiful effects. Sewing formulae and the maths of sewing still seem fresh to her.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI like to teach because it keeps me occupied and my brains active. I don\u2019t want to retire and sit at home doing nothing,\u201d says the 75-year-old Pang who teaches pattern making \u2013 with all its permutations and calculations \u2013 entirely from memory.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After all, Pang did go through a lot to pursue her studies in tailoring. As the eldest daughter in a working class family, her Italian dream wasn\u2019t one her parents could finance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But she has always been hard working and resilient, so Pang bravely forged ahead. After she landed in Rome, Pang managed to find a job as a nanny and saved up enough to enrol at the prestigious Ida <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ferri Institute for three years, learning the art of Italian craftsmanship.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Her Italian employer persuaded her to stay on as their live-in nanny, and she would send the children to school and then attend tailoring classes at the Roman institute, and then picked up her charges from school.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After she graduated, she worked for three years with a local couturier. By then, her boyfriend had joined her in Rome, and they got married and had a child there. Childcare was inaccessible and the family decided to come back to Malaysia in 1980.<\/span><\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4927 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/my.episodeplus.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/phang04-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1208\" height=\"906\" srcset=\"https:\/\/my.episodeplus.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/phang04-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/my.episodeplus.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/phang04-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/my.episodeplus.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/phang04-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/my.episodeplus.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/phang04.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1208px) 100vw, 1208px\" \/><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pang then set up the Italy Fashion and Dressmaking Institute in Sea Park, Petaling Jaya, where she tailored clothes and also held classes. But over the decades, the demand for tailored clothes waned as people opted for readymade clothes. Eventually Pang closed her tailoring business but she continued to teach dressmaking.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She conducts a basic dressmaking course, where students start off learning how to draft and make pattern blocks. So, for the first few lessons, students learn to draw patterns and make miniature patterns that they glue on their workbook.\u00a0 After that, students work on individual projects under Pang\u2019s guidance. Students learn to make a skirt first, then a top and then combine both to make a dress.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are no manuals or written notes. Students learn by observing and picking up the skills and techniques required \u2013 from taking measurements, making blocks, transferring the patterns on the fabric to finally sewing it all together. They also learnt to make piping, cords and frog buttons.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt all depends on the student. Some already have some sewing skills and are able to pick up tailoring quickly. It also depends on their level of interest and how much they practise on their own,\u201d says Pang who has held her own in this era of YouTube tutorials.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Learning from Pang is like apprenticing with an old master. She is exacting in her expectations and her sharp eyes catch sloppy work easily, be it a dart measured wrongly or seams that pucker. It\u2019s not just enough to know to sew. Pang also encourages her students to be mindful of the fine details and finishing. With her years of experience, she has many tricks and tips to impart. Unpicking and repeating steps are pretty common, so don\u2019t expect a hipster workshop when everything is done in one session.<\/span><\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4928 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/my.episodeplus.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/phang03-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1203\" height=\"1604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/my.episodeplus.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/phang03-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/my.episodeplus.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/phang03-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/my.episodeplus.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/phang03.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1203px) 100vw, 1203px\" \/><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt\u2019s all about practice. Sewing is making things by hand, so you have to practise to learn. There are no shortcuts,\u201d says Pang who is a patient and encouraging teacher, who tries to understand why people come and do lessons with her. Many students come for class to destress from a week\u2019s workload and has no time to do homework.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tax accountant Lim Chia Chian started learning sewing from Pang ten years ago. Although she does not come for class regularly anymore, she continues to look forward to sewing with Pang because \u201cit\u2019s a way of destressing.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWhen I am at sewing class, I just focus on sewing,\u201d says Lim who is in the midst of making a batik cheongsam for the coming Chinese New Year.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grandmother of 11, Tan See Fen, is also making cheongsam, but she is on a mission to sew cheongsam for her family.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She has sewing experience but has never learned professionally. Last year, her daughter suggested that she took lessons. After asking around, she found Pang and signed up for one-to-one classes.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI told Pang I only wanted to learn to make cheongsam as I knew how to sew simple patterns,\u201d recalls Tan who was a most enthusiastic student. The 69-year-old Tan would learn to make the pattern blocks and go home to sew, and then returned to class to troubleshoot.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI look forward to learning. It keeps my mind active because I am always thinking of patterns and how to sew. It\u2019s also so satisfying to see my daughters, daughter-in-law and grandchildren wearing the clothes I made,\u201d shares Tan who is also inspired to sew when she buys beautiful good quality cotton fabric.<\/span><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4929 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/my.episodeplus.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/phang02-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1154\" height=\"1539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/my.episodeplus.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/phang02-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/my.episodeplus.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/phang02-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/my.episodeplus.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/phang02.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1154px) 100vw, 1154px\" \/><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But mostly she credits Pang for guiding and teaching her to sew. Tan says she is sometimes in a hurry to finish making the clothes, but Pang would coax her to be mindful of the details. So, she often has to unpick and redo, but it\u2019s the way to learn.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cEven if the work is not neat in the beginning, everyone can learn. And after making some mistakes and correcting them, the next time the work will be neat and beautiful,\u201d assures Pang. After all these years, she still delights in a beautiful well-made apparel and is unabashed in praising her student\u2019s work.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">PANG Ai Kim had only US$300 on her when she flew to Rome, Italy in 1972.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She was 23, did not speak Italian and had no clear plans of what to do when she landed in the foreign city. But she had a big dream.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI was young and brave,\u201d recalls Pang, now 75.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All that mattered then was she wanted to study fashion and dressmaking in Italy, and she was excited to realise that ambition. Growing up, Pang used to sit by her mother\u2019s side and watch her sew an apparel from start to finish. She remembers so clearly how interested and fascinated she was, and it led to her dreaming of enrolling in a fashion school in Italy, no less.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pang started off by working as a nanny in an Italian household. After six months, she saved enough money to enroll in a fashion school but her employer persuaded her to continue working with them while attending classes when the children she babysat were in. Later, her boyfriend joined her in Rome and they married.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pang and her family came back in 1979, and she set up the Italy Fashion and Dressmaking Institute in Sea Park, Petaling Jaya, in 1980, where she tailored clothes and also held classes. But over the decades, the demand for tailored clothes had waned as people opted for readymade clothes. Eventually Pang closed her tailoring business but she continued to teach dressmaking.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI like to teach because it keeps me occupied and my brains active. I don\u2019t want to retire and sit at home doing nothing,\u201d says Pang who has count of how many students she had taught.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4930 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/my.episodeplus.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/phang01-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1260\" height=\"1680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/my.episodeplus.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/phang01-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/my.episodeplus.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/phang01-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/my.episodeplus.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/phang01.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1260px) 100vw, 1260px\" \/><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She conducts a basic dressmaking course, where students start off learning how to draft patterns. So, for the first few lessons, students learn to draw patterns and make miniature patterns that they glued on their workbook.\u00a0 After that, students work on individual projects under Pang\u2019s guidance. Students learn to make a skirt, a top and then combine both to make a dress.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are no manuals or written notes. Students learn by observing and picking up the skills and techniques required \u2013 from taking measurements, making blocks, transferring the patterns on the fabric to finally sewing it all together.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt all depends on the student. Some already have some sewing skills and are able to pick up tailoring quickly. It also depends on their level of interest and how much they practise on their own,\u201d says Pang who has held her own in this era of YouTube tutorials.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Learning from Pang is like apprenticing with an old master. She is exacting in her expectations and her sharp eyes catch errors easily, be it a dart measured wrongly or seams that puckered. It\u2019s not just enough to sew, but Pang also expects her students to sew neatly and finely. With her years of experience, she has many tricks and tips to impart. Unpicking and repeating steps are pretty common, so don\u2019t expect a hipster workshop when everything is done in one session.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt\u2019s all about practice. Sewing is making things by hand, so you have to practise to learn. There are no shortcuts,\u201d says Pang who is a patient and encouraging teacher, who tries to understand why people come and do lessons with her.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tax accountant Lim Chia Chian started learning sewing from Pang ten years ago. Although she does not come for class regularly anymore, she continues to look forward to sewing with Pang because \u201cit\u2019s a way of destressing.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWhen I am at sewing class, I just focus on sewing,\u201d says Lim who is in the midst of making a batik cheongsam for the coming Chinese New Year.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI had sewing basics but with Pang I learn to be meticulous. I was so inspired to sew, especially when I bought beautiful fabrics,\u201d says Tan who was most impressed that Pang \u201ctaught her everything.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last Chinese New Year, she sewed cheongsam for her three daughters, daughter-in-law and five of her grandchildren who are girls.<\/span><\/p><h2>\u201cI felt so satisfied seeing my family in the cheongsam that I made for them.\u201d<\/h2>    <\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2e84c92 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"2e84c92\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;content_width&quot;:&quot;boxed&quot;}\" data-core-v316-plus=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-687b479 elementor-widget elementor-widget-vankine-blog-v1\" data-id=\"687b479\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"vankine-blog-v1.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t     <section class=\"blog_post position-relative   ajax_posts_enabled \">\r\n        <div class=\"row ajaxcontainer\">\r\n                                                    \t\t\t\t\t\t                                                        <div class=\"col-xl-4 col-lg-4 col-md-6 col-sm-6  ajax-wrapper\">\r\n                            <div class=\"blog_box type_two type_three trans hover_1_get\">\r\n                                <div class=\"blog_inner trans\">\r\n                                                                            <div class=\"image_box trans hover_1\">\r\n                                            <a href=\"https:\/\/my.episodeplus.com\/wp\/2024\/02\/25\/the-will-to-secure-a-future-carmen-phang\/\">\r\n                                                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-fluid trans\" src=\"https:\/\/my.episodeplus.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_4249.jpeg\" alt=\"The Will To Secure A Future \u2013 Carmen Phang\" \/>\r\n                                            <\/a>\r\n                                                                                        <div class=\"oh ho_1\"><\/div>\r\n                                            <div class=\"oh ho_2\"><\/div>\r\n                                            <div class=\"oh ho_3\"><\/div>\r\n                                            <div class=\"oh ho_4\"><\/div>\r\n                                       \r\n                                        <\/div>\r\n                                                                            <div class=\"content\">\r\n                                        <span class=\"date_tm\"><i class=\"fi-rr-calendar\"><\/i> <time class=\"date published\" datetime=\"2024-02-25T03:45:14+00:00\">February 25, 2024<\/time><\/span>                                        <small class=\"comments\">\r\n    <i class=\"far fa-comment-dots\"><\/i>\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/my.episodeplus.com\/wp\/2024\/02\/25\/the-will-to-secure-a-future-carmen-phang\/#respond\" class=\"Comments are Closed\" >Post a Comment<\/a><\/small>\r\n\r\n                                            <h4 class=\"title_22\">\r\n                                                <a href=\"https:\/\/my.episodeplus.com\/wp\/2024\/02\/25\/the-will-to-secure-a-future-carmen-phang\/\">The Will To Secure A Future \u2013 Carmen Phang<\/a>                                            <\/h4>\r\n                                                                                        <p class=\"descs\">\r\n                                                In the conventional narrative of life, we&#039;re expected to follow a linear path - study,&hellip; 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