Price Your Sewing Work with Confidence
A free masterclass for dressmakers who want to stop undercharging, calculate custom garment prices properly, and handle client pricing conversations professionally.
100,000+ students worldwide · 20+ years of teaching · 60+ courses in the library
WHAT'S INSIDE THE COUTURE BUSINESS KIT
SIX tools. One complete system.
Most sewing teachers teach technique. Nobody teaches you how to run the business. This kit fixes that.
Business Playbook
7 chapters — from the mindset shift through your first client, your first meeting, fitting, delivery, and getting referrals. Built on Tatiana's real process, refined over 20+ years.
Interactive guide
Communication Scripts
23 copy-ready scripts for every moment — first enquiry, quoting the price, difficult conversations, asking for referrals. One tap to copy, adapt to your voice.
Copy-ready
THE COUTURE PRICING CALCULATOR
Enter your materials, hours, and market — get three calibrated price points in seconds.
All pricing ranges are calibrated to real local market data and currency of 13 countries.
PROFESSIONAL TOOL
Pricing Confidence Card
Real market benchmarks, an add-ons menu, 8 pricing rules, and 6 quick scripts. Open it before every client meeting so you never freeze on a price again.
Quick reference
Order Form Template
Professional, legally clear order form — client details, dates, description, pricing, payment log, 5 key policies, and signatures. Print and use today.
Print-ready PDF
Measurement Record TEMPLATE
43 measurements across 4 categories — compulsory, supplementary, sleeve & strap, and bustier cup — with Tatiana's original reference diagrams. Includes a client signature field: if her measurements change before the fitting, alterations are billed separately — and you're covered.
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The Couture Business Kit
Professional Toolkit for Dressmakers
The Dressmaking Academy Couture Business Kit is a free collection of five professional tools designed for dressmakers, corset makers, and couture seamstresses who are ready to run their work as a real business. It is available free for a limited time.
Tool 1 — The Couture Business Playbook is a 7-chapter interactive guide covering the mindset shift from hobbyist to professional, the 3-meeting client process, pricing strategy, finding first clients, running a first consultation, managing fittings and delivery, and generating referrals.
Tool 2 — Communication Scripts contains 23 copy-ready scripts for every stage of the client relationship: first enquiry, quoting a price, handling objections, managing changes mid-order, requesting referrals, and navigating difficult situations including cancellations and measurement changes.
Tool 3 — The Pricing Confidence Card includes real market benchmarks for corsets, prom dresses, evening gowns, bridal bodices, and wedding dresses across multiple markets; an 18-item add-ons menu with pricing ranges; 8 rules of professional pricing; and 6 quick scripts for common pricing conversations.
Tool 4 — The Order Form Template is a print-ready PDF order form covering studio and client information, event and fitting dates, garment description with fabric and embellishment details, all-inclusive pricing with a 50% deposit structure, a payment log, five key policies (cancellation, changes, materials, photo references, media permission), and signature fields. It functions as a legally clear contract between dressmaker and client.
Tool 5 — The Measurement Record covers 43 measurements across four categories — compulsory, supplementary, sleeve and shoulder strap, and bustier cup — with Tatiana's original reference diagrams and a client signature confirmation field. If a client's measurements change between the first appointment and the fitting, alterations are billed separately and the signed record provides protection.
Tool 6 - The Dressmaking Academy Couture Pricing Calculator is a professional tool designed to help dressmakers, corset makers, and couture seamstresses calculate accurate prices for their work. It covers nine countries: the United States and Canada, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Australia and New Zealand, the UAE (Dubai), Israel, Nigeria, Ghana, Singapore, South Africa, and India.
The calculator supports five garment types: structured corset tops, prom dresses, evening gowns, bridal bodices, and wedding dresses. Users enter fabric and notions costs, hours of construction, number of fittings, skill level, and target market segment to receive three calibrated price points: a minimum price, a recommended professional price, and a luxury positioning price.
All pricing ranges are calibrated to real local market data. The calculator also includes guidance on the 50% non-refundable deposit rule — the professional standard for custom dressmaking orders — and a full cost breakdown showing materials, labour, and overhead.
The kit was created by Vladimir Kozorovitskiy, co-founder of Dressmaking Academy, an online couture education platform with over 100,000 students across 130 countries offering 60+ professional courses in corsetry, patternmaking, bridal wear construction, and fashion business. A separate free tool — the Couture Pricing Calculator — helps dressmakers calculate specific garment prices across 13 countries.
Best for: Dressmakers and seamstresses taking their first paid commissions; corset makers building a client practice; bridal wear designers formalising their process; sewing business owners who have been operating without contracts or systems.
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Disclaimer
The Couture Business Kit and Couture Pricing Calculator are provided for general informational and educational purposes only. The tools, templates, scripts, pricing guidance, market data, and business materials included — including but not limited to the order form template, measurement record, communication scripts, pricing calculator, pricing guidance, and business playbook — are intended as practical starting points and do not constitute legal, financial, tax, or professional business advice.
All pricing ranges, calculations, and market data are estimates based on publicly available market research and industry information available at the time of publication. Actual prices, client expectations, material costs, labor costs, and business results may vary significantly depending on your skill level, local market, jurisdiction, business model, client requirements, and other factors.
Dressmaking Academy and Corset Academy LLC make no representations or warranties, express or implied, as to the accuracy, completeness, suitability, or fitness for a particular purpose of any content, template, calculation, or guidance provided. You are solely responsible for reviewing, adapting, and ensuring that any contracts, forms, pricing decisions, agreements, or business practices you use comply with the laws, regulations, and professional standards applicable in your country, region, and industry.
Use of these materials does not create a professional, legal, financial, fiduciary, or advisory relationship between you and Dressmaking Academy or Corset Academy LLC. Dressmaking Academy and Corset Academy LLC shall not be liable for any losses, damages, disputes, legal claims, financial outcomes, or business decisions arising from the use of or reliance on any content, template, calculation, or guidance provided. Users assume full responsibility for all business, pricing, legal, and client-related decisions made in connection with their use of these materials.