Fashion Design for Mandarin Collar & Edge Stitch

Video Transcript

"This type of collar/neck opening is a mandarin collar with an edge stitch. I have shown you before what a mandarin collar is and how it looks. What this is is the same, is the mandarin collar added in, oh edge stitch added in. That's what this dash, these dash lines represent. An edge stitch is something that you use it to reinforce your fabric. If you're going to do an edge stitch, typically it's something that you want to be more stable as far as if it's a fabric that's real sheer, real gauzy, something that might shred easily. An edge stitch just makes it so that it doesn't fray as much. But an edge stitch also can be a design element if you're doing stuff that's tailored like custom tailored clothing that has a lining in it and more expensive style clothing always, almost always has edge stitches. It's just extra added work for the person who's sewing it. But that means the person who's designing it gets extra money because it's extra time. The more you have on something, to a point, meaning the lining in it, the edge stitching, the more tailored it is, the more high end it's going to be. So that is why there is a mandarin with edge stitch."