People say go to the garment district and buy fabric there.
I’m not a good enough sewer to spend a lot on fabric though.
I definitely have a problem buying fabric I’ve never laid eyes or hands on!
We don’t have any fabric stores at all left in our town since Hancock went out of business.
We live about 30 miles east of San Francisco so we’re not exactly BFE here.
You’d think we could support a fabric store but we can’t keep a bookstore afloat either.
I guess if people won’t read they can’t sew either because sewing involves reading of instructions.
I quilt and built up a fair stash just buying bags of fabric at the thrift store.
If I want to make clothes I’m going to have to drive a ways to find fabric.
Yes, it used to be that nearly every mall, and a lot of strip malls, had a fabric store. The only thing near me now is one of the smaller Joann’s.
There are exceptions, though: places that have large Asian populations still have some very nice fabric stores, usually little holes-in-the-wall. And some of them will make clothes for you!
Hancock Fabrics was a favorite store of mine, too. I miss it.
My late mother helped me make my wedding dress and veil from silks and lace purchased there. IIRC we used a Butterick pattern.
Yep, Barnes & Noble in WC Broadway Plaza is now an Anthropologie store, will B&N ever return?