New York City Garment District with Bernadette Banner

[@WayToVibe]

CD: "Don't let fabric snobs stop you from your joy." Bernadette: *politecoughinbackground* We heard that, Bernadette!

[@Costuming_Drama]

🤣😂🤣😂

[@midoriioyama9548]

I laughed out oud for real after that cough 🤣

[@candyminton2524]

Ok, I happen to like DuPoni silk too! Something about the texture. I ordered 8 plus yards of lavender peach for a walking skirt because I loved the color and the feel. I am a fiber spinner and can see the art in the fabric. Sadly it is not the only silk I like. I like it all !! My poor purse

[@kitdubhran2968]

"If you're a dude it's 8 inches wide" 😂 I'm literally crying.

[@kitdubhran2968]

Costuming Drama that is literally the second I liked the video. I was planning on it already but I had to immediately go back and do it right then. 😂

[@Hiker_who_Sews]

@@Costuming_Drama : I got it immediately, but I just found your channel. Though late to the party, I'm enjoying the show!

[@YlvaTheRed]

I laughed very much!

[@JNPrettyOnTop]

Costuming Drama I LOL-ed 😂😂😂

[@dragonfly_closet]

Extremely same 😂

[@emogal225]

Bernadettes wistful face in the glass at 10:43 is a mood.

[@EagleRue]

I love how Bernedette smiles with such a cute look when she mentions you have a local person that can go get your trims for you. LOL

[@bettsamyj]

OMG, dying, "if you're a dude, it's 8" wide" . . . I was watching subtly at work, and seriously spit my coffee out laughing.

[@dcinrb8538]

I snorted warm tea out of my nose... couldn't explain why to my husband reading...he thinks it was the tea's fault. Lol

[@Quilting_sky]

Amy Betts 🤣😂 laughed so hard when she said that!

[@shannonbrazil6135]

Wasn't so subtle after that!

[@amyhannon3034]

"if you're a dude, it's 8 inches wide" NOELLE TAKES NO PRISONERS

[@Costuming_Drama]

😂🤣

[@cherylwiglover8400]

I love Bernadette's face reflected in the cabinet glass at 10:40. I felt the very same expression on my own face. Wonder! Thanks, Noelle, for taking us along with you.

[@gingerbosslady]

California " We don't need hallways, everything is outside" NYC *brain tries to process such a concept* "Wait... What!?" *cue me, quietly cackling trying to not wake up the whole apt at 3am*

[@vintagelife5195]

Welcome to my home town! A lot of those fabric stores have been in the same place since the 1800's and owned by the same families. Foods I would recommend there are a street corner hotdog with onions and a potato knish with mustard, a soft pretzel, Pizza, and either Katz or Cernegie deli sandwiches.

[@dcinrb8538]

Food envy as I eat 3-in-1 oatmeal.

[@veronicavatter6436]

@@dcinrb8538 same

[@red-crystal-dragon]

"you don't cut this, you just carry it around and pet it" I felt that. LOL

[@tiffanytomasino335]

At 10:45 ish there is a reflection of Bernadette staring wistfully in the glass that I feel fits the mood of this vlog Thank you for sharing

[@dcinrb8538]

How would you compare the Mood in CA to the Mood in NY? Do they have similar vibes or is there a distinct difference? Has Bernadette shopped the LA garment/fashion district? Is reciprocal fabric shopping trips a thing? Before the shutdown I bought 40 meters of red/white gingham in Bukit Mertajam, Malaysia. My husband says I smiled for the rest of the day. ♥️ Stay safe.

[@victoriamcqueen994]

Found you from Bernadette’s vlog. You are incredibly funny. Love it.

[@TheSerialHobbyistGirl]

I go to the Garment District regularly but still, after years of going, I find it pretty overwhelming. I don't much like to haggle and that's part of the problem. But, also, it's a place where you have to go with an open mind because it's really difficult to find specific things, but that can also be a problem because you might end up buying so much stuff you weren't really looking for (ask me how I know!). Another thing, I like Mood and the other pricey stores because they actually label everything. The downside, of course, is that they tend to be the more expensive stores.

[@JenInOz]

I've been to Mood a few times now but always feel severely underwhelmed. I was most disappointed when I was looking for shot silk and had to explain to the employee what it is.

[@mariebray9831]

Putting in pockets in all my projects from now on. Wow New York garment district, what a wonderland.

[@Aegopodium]

10:34 Wuahahaw! That desperately longing expression on Bernadettes reflection in the glass.... This made my day!!!!!

[@sugarcreamcandy]

All those ribbons!! I nearly fell out of my seat. I Would have openly sobbed on the floor for hours

[@katiepie3009]

Bwahahahahaha, Bernadette’s cheeky grins as you walk through the streets!

[@featherbound8099]

"it's like a pipe cleaner but with no wire in it" "yeah it's like a little bunny tail" 🐰🐇 😂😂🤣

[@marywisner1390]

Wow. We have no more fabric stores where I live. The last one is gone.

[@alime3084]

"It's like 5 inches wide...if you're a dude it's 8 inches wide" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jennylee9761]

Videos of New York's fashion district make me weep so much, I would so love to go there. I get all excited just going to my local Fabricland. lol. Lovely stuff!

[@ldk777far]

Oh the wonderful Bernadette!! She is amazing!!! I am so green....

[@cheekyb71]

"If you're a dude it's 8" wide" *immediately cut to ad for WISH* 😂😂😂💀

[@angeliccow]

Omg I’m Australian. I have never felt a draw to visit New York until now. We literally have nothing like this in Sydney - nothing. So jealous.

[@angeliccow]

@@Costuming_Drama we have cabramatta, which is maybe 5 stores full of very cheap low quality fabric, one of bridal quality and priced fabric and the best Vietnamese food in Sydney. Most of my fabrics are now bought online.

[@JenInOz]

@@angeliccow I did a fabric shopping trip to Cabramatta last year for my birthday (I live in Melbourne, daughter was living in Sydney and did taxi duty as her birthday present to me). Came home with some interesting stuff but nothing as nice or as wide a choice as NYC garment district.

[@angeliccow]

Jen Stosser we just don’t have the fabric options here!! Is Melbourne any better?

[@JenInOz]

@@angeliccow If you know where to go you can find some bargains. There's a little crowded asian shop quite near where I live that has some really nice stuff, but you have to dig around to find what you want. There's an area north of the city (you know, where they first shut down the suburbs due to the virus) that has lots of good places, but I rareky get to that side of the city. There are a few bridal fabric places where they're really snobby at you. Darn Cheap usually has some nice stuff on their $2/m table, and lots of other lovely stuff that's more expensive. I have a Spotlight that's within my 5km permitted radius (but of course, they're closed for the next few weeks still)...

[@angeliccow]

Jen Stosser surry Hills in sydney has some good places. I wouldn’t say cheap but if you are happy to mail order I can recommend e.m greenfields in Sydney. Not a lot of “interesting” fabrics but great colour and fiber range on basics (ie cottons, linens, rayon, velvet etc buy not patterned fabrics - really good quality and supplies to wholesale)

[@SherylFZsmom]

Ok. So far, I've binge-watched most of your videos. You are funny. Everything I'm making for myself has pockets simply because my shoulders hurt too much to carry a purse (and no, ladies, my purse isn't hugely heavy). Thank you Bernadette (may I be on first name basis?) for introducing me to Costuming Drama.

[@kirakinney8645]

Those trim shops would put me into sensory overload. There is so much to look at, pretty soon nothing registers at all! (Good thing you have video!)

[@bekytg9393]

Thanks to Bernadette Banner for introducing Costuming Drama to me. Happy Vegemite down here in Australia.

[@PjMeh]

Oh I love him! I remember his teaching on one of the Farm series videos! This has been such a great vlog! I loved the garment district tour. I have never seen so much ribbon in my life. I got such a great laugh for the enthusiasm of the creepy store! ❤️❤️❤️

[@Becky_Theroux_Gockel]

What fun!! to go with Bernadette around New York!!

[@Takalonti1]

The whole idea of a garment district is mind blowing to me. I'm lucky by the fact that I have two fabric stores in town that aren't specifically quilting stores. But to have more than two options let alone stores dedicated to trims is amazing. (I'm from Calgary Alberta Canada by the way)

[@Costuming_Drama]

Oh! One of my best friends lives in Calgary, so I’m actually there a couple times a year! Maybe I should do a meetup!

[@Takalonti1]

@@Costuming_Drama that would be awesome most of my sewing buddies here are quilters or they just sew clothes not much costuming or at least historical costuming

[@januzzell8631]

So wonderful to see Lucas - I'd 'met' him in the Victorian and Edwardian Farm series with Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands & Peter Ginn - funniest thing I've ever seen, him trying to teach Ruth to use an old sewing machine :D

[@BethAge95]

I wish we had garment districts like that in Germany or Finland! I don't think I'll ever make it to the US, but if I do, I'll bring an empty suitcase and visit NY's garment district! The selection is just breathtaking! Thanks for taking us along :)

[@joannathesinger770]

I just got back from NYC, singing in a choral concert at Carnegie Hall. I was broke, so I didn't walk down to the Garment District, but GOALS!!!

[@functionoflightone]

"If you're a dude it's 8 inches wide." Snortted coffee all over my keyboard.

[@monicawalker2853]

Oh, my, goodness. I'm so jealous! I tuned into you from Burnadette's channel to see Lady Sherlock. I want to be friends and shop in the garment districts! The middle ok Kentucky does not have such lovely things! BTW my first ever U Tube comment

[@candyminton2524]

Wow!!! I had no idea living in the south what an amazing place that is !!! I am a person who finds the fabric first and then the pattern. The fabric speaks to me . Yes, sometimes I need more or have bought too much but it is the way I am inspired

[@ladystitch-a-lot]

I need some of that handkerchief linen 😍 so beautiful

[@ladystitch-a-lot]

@@Costuming_Drama if I ever find myself in New York I'm so going to the garment district

[@dcinrb8538]

@@ladystitch-a-lotfrom her earlier video while shopping in the LA fashion district, she says there's a Mood. I was making plans to drive up there as my birthday gift to me, now I'm homebound until when (?) Okay, stopping the rant and putting my big girl panties on...ugh ♥️

[@DanielleStJohn]

OMJeebus the organization and visibility of product in those shops is positively drool-worthy. Most of the non-mainstream fabric stores I've been to have been outlet-y, overstock-y sorts of places, and things are significantly more chaotic, so this is just [chef's kiss]

[@Saltymongoose]

Omg “the usual manner”! Literally nothing frustrates me more than that!

[@veronicavatter6436]

It's like recipes that say cook til done!

[@cherylspear1633]

Thanks for taking us with you to the fabric district. Amazing!

[@JenInOz]

I did a fabric shopping tour in NYC a couple of years ago and got and GORGEOUS blue and silver wool mix (they said it was Chanel?) from a shop that I think had the word Royal or Regal in the name. Wish I could remember what the actual name of the shop was because I may need more than the 1.5yds I bought (@$95/yd!) and I'm hoping it's still available...

[@raraavis7782]

If it was a somewhat unusual fabric, it's highly unlikely, that it would still be available even in the next season, let alone years later. Designer fabrics are like fashion collections...they get designed and produced and once they're gone, they're gone. Only 'basics' are usually available on an ongoing basis. Sorry, I know it sucks...been there myself. Bought to little, went back just weeks later...nothing to be done 😕

[@JenInOz]

@@raraavis7782 actually on two separate trips to the US & NYC I *have* been able to find the same fabric twice (same shop I think but it has moved around) and I even saw it on video in someone else's shopping trip vlog... but all I need now is a reminder of what the shop was called where I got the blue and silver wool...

[@raraavis7782]

@@JenInOz Good luck then! Hope, your hunt will be successful. Btw., I remember Angela Clayton did a pretty extensive vlog of a fabric shopping trip to New York a year or so ago. Maybe watching that will jog your memory.

[@Janawrites]

Yay fabric vlogs! I want all the wool...

[@Faeriehood]

We dont have shops with such loveliness...so thank you for indulging me today 😁

[@emiishino5422]

You look like you had so much fun together! Made me laugh out loud several times. It's the kind of shopping trip I have with my besties! Honestly, "if you're a dude" comment had me rolling!

[@elainelawrence667]

You are both fun to watch! And together you guys where even more fun to be with

[@sherihone]

your joy is just awesome, thank you for sharing it :)

[@maryappold1023]

Oh. Oh, MY! East Coast Trims is like Christmas morning.😍😍😍

[@julied.8277]

Even 6 months later I love this. I've been to two locations like this in my 40 years of sewing. One was a lovely little store in Baltimore, the other one of the fabric districts in DFW. The stores are much more spread out in the area we went to in DFW. No walking between stores. BTW, your Reed pleater will make those tiny pleats in ribbon. Both locations received much support from my wallet!

[@carochan86]

The one on Falls Road, Baltimore? Is it pricy? I heard it was.

[@EnchantedRoseCostumes]

My goodness from 6:40 11:05 the trims are beautiful 😍

[@marcytrost2498]

My favorite comment, when y'all were in one of the trim shops looking at ribbon: "This one is 5 inches wide, or, if you are a guy, 8 inches!" I absolutely died laughing at that! Great vlog!

[@brooke_reiverrose2949]

Everything about this video is perfect. Dude inflation. omigod I'm dying. That wool at the beginning! d r o o l I too, want to make everything from that lawn!

[@erinmalone2669]

I see some of those ribbons and picture the hat or the trim to the dress and figure I will make the dress just for that ribbon or embellishment,Dang it’s so hard when you don’t live in a place with amazing fabrics like Podunk nowhere.

[@linw7320]

2nd time watching this video- the Energy is amazing 💫💫💛

[@undecidedhandle]

Bernadette was so cute with her "Hello" at the beginning

[@apprentie_costumiere]

Omg. I can't believe I haven't thought about using a box pleated ribbon for my 18th century-inspired gown, like you showed when speaking about a color. Imma look into this now, it would save me so much work if I find the perfect one! Lol

[@zachsku]

Heading to the garment district to buy some stuff for making my first dress and some face masks. I'm watching these while I walk around because idk how to navigate the garment district 😅

[@8kids4me]

I went to high school in South Pasadena, when I try to explain that my classes all opened to the outdoors, their heads can’t wrap around it!

[@estelledesigns]

Ah my gosh! Watching your vlog is forming a new life goal of mine... to one day visit America, meet you guys, go buy all the fabric and go to costume college ahaha!! That pink dress that your really want to make, I’m imagining it will be similar to Amy Mcaddam’s in Sherlock Holmes?? If so, that would be an awesome costume to wear! No one will miss you from afar!!

[@ladyicondraco]

Did you ever use that wool you mentioned in this video? I just joined this channel after your COCOVID videos with Bernadette.

[@evelyn_r]

I’m so jelly, I wish I knew where the fabric district is here in Melbourne

[@JenInOz]

Brunswick!

[@nicnaknoc]

OMG MY POOR HEART - so sad about my tiny fabric store here in town (lucky if they have 100 different fabrics in store IN ALL) auch auch auch auch THE TRIMs - THE RIBBONS ... I am in real physical pain of desire

[@lewisholly4044]

I would so love to go Fabric shopping with you, oh what Fun.. My Daughter Chaperones me as i'm not save to go alone, my Fabric addiction needs control.. Oh my the Trim shop, drool...

[@bettsamyj]

Is that the same Luca that appears in the BBC Farm Series videos to help re-create period garments? He's amazing!

[@kelfae]

Oh! I recognise that voice on the foundations revealed call. I've watched his videos on spinning with a distaff. Cross over!

[@chixaninny]

The Aladdin's cave of ribbons and other gorgeousness! WOW!

[@Nutmeag13]

How did you meet Bernadette?

[@JNPrettyOnTop]

I loved this adventure! 💜💜💜

[@carolempluckrose778]

Are there shops like this in the UK? If so, WHERE?

[@Costuming_Drama]

Try my goldhawk Road video 😉

[@katphyre]

When you use all the fabric you already have?? What blasphemy is this? You cannot use ALL the fabric. You must have a stash. Can you even consider yourself a seamstress if you use up ALL the fabric??

[@katphyre]

Me too! Never going to happen. Last night I was up at 4am buying embroidery floss (because I don't have enough colors) and my husband is surprised by this behavior. We've been together for 20 years...does he not know me at all?

[@lynn858]

And then March 2020 proved to many of us that A) 2 1/2 + months of having plenty of time to sew, but significantly reduced opportunities for buying fabric didn’t empty our stash B) One MUST have a stash “just in case” wasn’t such a bad idea after all

[@amberhines3979]

"If you're a dude, it's eight inches wide"....I damn near died....ROFL...And THIS is why I subscribe to you....LOL....You do amazing work, but you're funny as hell and that's what I love about you :)

[@Costuming_Drama]

🤣😂🤣 I literally sit and wait for people to figure that one out!

[@amberhines3979]

I got it immediately, we obviously have the same sense of humor...LOL...I almost choked (I was taking a drink :P)

[@darklymoonlit]

Lost it at "This is not safe for work!"

[@Costuming_Drama]

🤣😂

[@lenorejustman7757]

I once made a shirt with a commercial pattern, then wanted to check something about the sleeve. I looked and looked, then had a friend look and we discovered that there were no instructions on inserting a sleeve! I knew how to insert a sleeve and had done so. If I hadn't had a minor question I would never have known. PATTERNS ARE NOT INFALLIBLE!

[@gigiw.7650]

OMGosh! IGOTAGOTONYC! 😱 The trims shop, not fair! 😭😭😭

[@KelseyDrummer]

So I just discovered you... And you're blowing me away. Friggin love you!🤣

[@iSharShar]

This makes me miss NYC so much. Did you get to pet the Daytona Trimmings cats?

[@Clowreader]

"if you're a dude, it's 8 inches away," haha made my day!

[@Br0wnEyedQueen]

😃 is that Diana Panton playing in the BG?! 9:45

[@emilydillon9238]

August 2020 Me - Takes virtual field trip with costuming internet strangers. Thank you for the COVID rabbit hole :)

[@kwcnasa]

domestic culture shock @11:43, golden moment for me. love you CD and BB.

[@kwcnasa]

Wow, CD is that even possible to trace back a comment 1 year ago 😂 and give it a heart? By the way, love "traveling with" you guys. Keep up the good work.

[@fatimahaddaji2814]

No I am from Pennsylvania state and I dont know how to go to that fabric stor in NY so if u can send me a adress than I can go because I like the blog u posted about it thanks

[@fatimahaddaji2814]

Hello can you please send me a the address for those fabric district stores thanks a lot for the show it was very nice

[@christine2166]

A lot of buildings in NYC don’t want you to take pictures/video in their lobbies since 9/11. I think it’s silly, but that’s the way it goes.

[@grizeldaxxx4568]

"if you're a dude, it's 8 inches wide" bahahahhaa

[@thevirtualtraveler]

Trims! Walls and walls of trims! Oh bestill my heart!

[@TheSeattleStitcher]

If you’re a dude it’s 8” wide. I just died. Lol!!! Gonna have me waking up my sleeping child with laughter.

[@Costuming_Drama]

😉

[@bettsamyj]

I am so jealous of you folks who live anywhere near a garment district . . . po-dunk Eastern Oregon (like nearly to Boise, Idaho) is severely lacking.

[@bettsamyj]

@@Costuming_Drama True! I could go to the Garment District in Portland, but I haven't heard anything about it. I may have to check it out just for fun sometime.

[@whatever4707]

I wanna do the Garment District with Bernadette!! I am in New York right now, in fact! So very excited to go fabric shopping with my sister. Yay!

[@whimsicalinsanity2591]

I don't know if anyone else has said this yet, I mean I am watching this about 1.5 years after you posted it, But Thank you for all the Fabric and Notions Porn.

[@carolpope1145]

That place has so much it would make making a choice extremely hard to pick one.

[@alethearia]

I get half-way through this and all of the sex jokes. And I'm dying while my subconscious is like "why preacher, you've got a smutty smutty mind."

[@lunaandstella825]

Also knowing the trimmings store doesn’t exist anymore 😭

[@raeperonneau4941]

‘We just want fabric.” Lol The beauty of NY’s schmata district is that it’s unsurpassed. Jealous of the richness of your environment. “If it’s a dude it’s 8”. 🤣

[@raeperonneau4941]

Costuming Drama Interesting, I’m from LA and other than F&S I can’t think of a good, independent, textile store let alone a trim store. Maybe I should have left Santa Monica more often. 😂

[@raeperonneau4941]

Costuming Drama Thank you!

[@giulioprince1610]

Luca has the most Italian/English I’ve ever heard 😂😂

[@Friendly_Gamer_Mom]

If I had that genie you want, I would just wish for all the fabrics and trims that you got to see.

[@bethdewar538]

Its not a problem its a hobby!

[@aimeekluiber]

"If you're a dude, it's 8 inches" just got my subscription!

[@digitaldgirl4459]

I have a fabric addiction as well. I have curated some poundage in fabric.

[@witchvideofly]

Lol " if you're a dude it's eight inches wide!" 😂😂

[@genevieveatkinson5314]

You two are so lucky to have a garment district where I live there is not one. sigh