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RE: Making A Wedding Guest Outfit With African Print

This is beautiful work and the dress looks stunning on. Is that you? Wow. You look lovely! I wish I had sewing skills. I am truly epically bad at most needlework despite my best efforts.

Have you ever considered selling your designs on Etsy? I don't know whether that would be profitable, but maybe?

Personally, as a plus sized woman, I look for interesting designs from around the world, and I often look on Etsy. It is insane what they charge for plus sized clothing and some of it is very poorly made and ugly. That is why I often purchase on Etsy.

It is astonishing what us large Western ladies pay for clothing. I don't buy clothing often because I pay so much, but it is quite a shock. And we cannot buy it from China because they size things according to what they imagine plus size might be, which is a bit smaller than we actually are.

Anyhow, I don't know whether making clothes for fat ladies in the West would interest you or be lucrative for you, but we would benefit from your skills! That is for sure.

Either way, this is a lovely piece of work.

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Thank you so much.

I am truly epically bad at most needlework despite my best efforts.

Practice makes it better 🙃

Have you ever considered selling your designs on Etsy?

Someone here on hive once suggested Etsy to me but I've not looked into it. What I know is I need a PayPal account to run it and PayPal isn't available in Nigeria.

I understand how difficult it is to find clothing that fit, over here, our bodies are shaped different so it's better to have our clothes custom made if we want it to sit nicely.

And we cannot buy it from China because they size things according to what they imagine plus size might be, which is a bit smaller than we actually are.

Asian sizes run really small, I've had a couple of misses myself.

Anyhow, I don't know whether making clothes for fat ladies in the West would interest you or be lucrative for you, but we would benefit from your skills! That is for sure.

It's a great idea, I just need to consider the logistics involved.

Thanks for this suggestion. I really appreciate it.

That is super frustrating that Etsy doesn't allow payments in Nigeria. As Web 3.0 develops, I imagine something similar to Etsy will emerge that will allow payment in crypto, so I hope opportunities will emerge.

It's interesting. There are two designers I particularly like -- one is in Indonesia and one is in India. The one in Indonesia is on Etsy. I always wondered why the Indian designer is not (they have a separate website and advertise on FB, etc.) Now, I see that India is not a country that can sell on Etsy, but Indonesia is. It seems arbitrary.

Regardless, you are very talented and it is a lovely dress!