Chapter 249: Costume Design
Even the guests in the palace are people.
Whether it is a man without chicks or a woman waiting for the emperor's favor, they all want to live a better life in the palace.
Because everything they have must come from the gift of others.
People are most afraid of having nothing to do, and Fan Jingjing also thinks of a way out from time to time for the resentful women in the harem.
When they go to the harem, they are actually an investment, but most of them are investment losers.
Fan Jingjing thought of a new course for the ladies of the harem, this new course may be of some help to the harem, this new course is painting, and design.
Music and dance may be fine, but the way out is narrow, and it is not suitable in Datang.
Let the ladies find something to do, and by the way, they can earn a considerable amount of money.
At least, compared to the emperor's rewards and money, this money is a lot.
Everyone may know that eunuchs love money, but women who forget the harem also love money.
Only with money can you ensure status and life.
They are very idle, so they will focus on intrigue, in fact, they can do something that will not make the queen rebound in the harem.
Designing clothes is similar to embroidering or making clothes for them, at least the clothes they design can be worn by themselves, and more importantly, they can be sold for money.
The first course Fan Jingjing taught them was fashion design.
And the opening intention is to teach girls the ability to earn private money.
Fan Jingjing doesn't have many ideas for fashion design, but she used to be interested in this aspect of fashion and often read clothing magazines.
Although Fan Jingjing's creativity is a bit low, she has seen a lot of designs through fashion magazines and the appreciation of the young Langli sisters around her.
In the age of technology, her sisters, including herself, wore no repetition in their daily clothes.
Unlike now, Fan Jingjing can wear a piece of clothing more than 300 times without changing it.
Datang clothing, compared to grain, is really too expensive, even if Fan Jingjing has a lot of food now, she is still quite short of money, silk, cotton, must be bought, planted mulberry trees, until now it is not tall enough! If you want to raise silkworms, you also need technology, and Guanzhong is not a suitable place for raising silkworms, and there are even fewer related technologies.
In this era, the mobility and complexity of people are still far from sufficient.
Fan Jingjing can talk about some design concepts, and for the ladies of the palace, the environment they are in is one of the most luxurious.
Not to mention anything else, just looking at the palace woman, when she is showing off her flowers, you can see whether this dress is suitable for this woman to wear.
The learning environment is much better than others, so in all the industries, it is the most suitable for their needs, and they have the most time to calm down and design.
And there are many tools that can assist them in carrying out, of course, the production work must be placed in Fanjia Town.
Without the machines provided by the Fan family manor, there is no way to produce them quickly, and the clothes made will not be cheaper than others.
Ready-to-wear should have no chance of being sold, but after Fan Jingjing hired a lot of people to work with high salaries, ready-to-wear design jobs slowly became popular, because women can also go out and make some money, and it would be a waste of time to let them spend time making clothes.
The demand for making money to buy ready-to-wear is the most important in Fan's manor.
It is true that most of the Fan family manors are women, but they really don't have time to do these jobs.
Their income is particularly high, and the ready-to-wear styles are particularly novel, and they are also good-looking, and it is better to work as a union.
The point is that if they have calculated, they know that in terms of time, it is not cost-effective to do it themselves.
In the garment factory that Fan Jingjing did, because all the work became repetitive work, uniform tailoring, as long as the clothes were made by size, all the time could be reduced a lot.
Workers in garment workshops are doing the same thing all day long, and even as long as they concentrate on cutting cloth, like other workshops, the efficiency will be different, and the cost of each piece of clothing will be reduced. What's more, in order to work efficiently in the garment workshop, Fan Jingjing asked the blacksmith workshop to start researching and making Fan Jingjing's machine and had already designed a complete tailoring car.
The tailor car originally only needed engine oil and could be operated manually.
Soon, the tailor machine workshop will also have to be put into production.
Fan Jingjing still did more secrecy work, she was afraid that after the sewing machine appeared, there would be a series of chain reactions.
When the time comes, there will be a saying that a tailor will eat people.
The sewing machine is actually a very mechanized, but also very simple work, in the era of science and technology, people research towards two extremes, automation, simplification.
By the end there was already the so-called manual tailoring.
Fan Jingjing knows that after the concept of manual sewing machine is born, people will be able to study a more convenient machine, manual, and it is too easy to leak, so Fan Jingjing helps them make a tailor machine, which can make them make clothes much faster, with the garment business, this is the best new processing industry.
It's a pity that Fan Jingjing is not ready to spread it out.
The new technology that will affect too many people, Fan Jingjing feels that it still depends on the timing to develop.
Bringing new technology to the Tang Dynasty, Fan Jingjing may become the biggest dangerous element.
However, the garment industry clothing design can not be said too early, even if it is to do clothing design, not everyone can do, design things, rely on creativity, some clothes are novel, can be sold at a good price, and some can only sell a fixed style, take the low-price route.
As for clothing processing, it can't just stay in the palace, someone must receive the design order.
Not everyone in the palace has the right to instruct people to leave the palace.
It is ideal to set up the workshop in Fanjia Town and be dominated by Fanjia Manor.
As for the costume design, after the ladies make it, the design fee is decided by Fan Jingjing, and different prices are given according to the quality.
Let them have more ambitions after they get the money.
With differences, it can also be inspiring.
As for those who don't want to do design, they won't be reluctant. This is not bad for money.
When there is something to do, there will be less demand for men.
With financial ability, there is no dependence on men, and there is no feeling for the emperor.
Between the emperor and them, they don't live a family life at all, they are more often using their bodies to do work.
In this case, if there is something to do, they will not be idle, they will not be idle, and they will not fight for meaningless things.
The emperor's money is only one share, but the costume design can feed more people.
Anyway, it is enough for them to ensure the needs of life in the future.
If she is favored by the emperor and has no children, maybe she will sleep with the emperor in the underground palace in the future, it will be terrible.
Fan Jingjing put herself in her shoes and thought that they must not want the emperor's life to end after his death, especially when they have their own funds to support themselves and live a leisurely life.
There are people to serve, and they can be regarded as living happily.
Thinking about these women in the palace, it was Fan Jingjing who thought of making the harem peaceful, so many people live in the harem, and there are so many children, in order to make more people happy and safe, it is also a good thing.
Fan Jingjing knows that the women of the harem can still do a lot of things, but there are also many things that they can't do, the most important thing is that their status does not allow it, not that they do not have the ability to learn.
Costume design, and even any design work, could sit down and do it, but the emperor's woman could not run around.
In addition to clothing design, other design jobs should be able to run around, so they may not be suitable, or architectural design, interior design, these methods can allow these women to have more open space.
But the interior design must be on site to make a better effect, and if there is no way to go to the site, do their design work have to be done for the royal family? The palace may not have such a big demand, because Li Shimin was still relatively frugal at the beginning of the Zhenguan period, and it would not be too luxurious.
The palace project is often stopped for the sake of money needs elsewhere, and the palace project may not be completed for decades.
Comics may also be a good idea, but the women in the palace may not have enough knowledge, and there will be too much estrangement for civilians.
Maybe they can also paint some court paintings, but it involves the problem of leaking secrets, let the ladies do it, Fan Jingjing may be asking for trouble.
Fan Jingjing knows that when the textile industry really develops, it will actually be cheaper to buy outside than to make it at home.
But the real poor person is so poor that she has no extra money to buy other things, so she can only find a way to do it herself.
Although it takes more time and effort to do it yourself, it can cost less.
Many people will say, wouldn't you be more profitable by using this time to do other things?
But the Datang society did not provide them with so many opportunities to make other money, so they could only save and save, and break one dollar into two dollars to spend to find a way to survive.
As for the rest, they really can't think of it, unless they are given a job, and they have to save their labor time, and then they will start to compare, which can be more economical.
No matter what it is, it costs money for him, and if he has more time and can work to earn more money, he will be willing to buy a piece of clothing and save time to make money.
Or maybe he doesn't need to work so much time and wants to spend more time having fun, but he can also spend his money on clothes, not only to buy, but to buy better.
The problem in Datang society is that money is not in circulation, and most people have to find a way to produce the materials they need by themselves, so as not to spend money.
Without other job opportunities, it's hard to have a side hustle.
In the eyes of the peasants, the price at which they can sell is not comparable to the price on the market, that is to say, they are losing money.
And they don't have much food...... Or there is no leftover, at most to keep yourself full.
Those who can have a surplus are the landlords, and they are the only ones who have grain to sell.
Most of the grain bought by the people in the city was the grain of the landlord's family, and as for the ordinary people, there was really no such thing as selling food to others.
All the ideas are still in the mind, and it will take a while to start work, especially the simplest manual version of the tailoring machine, which has already been made, but the purpose is to explain the structure and let the research department do the research.
The whole platform is still being studied.
Jiang Blacksmith's current blacksmith workshop has opened a very large one, and more importantly, the blacksmith workshop also has a research institute attached to it, whenever Fan Jingjing thinks of an idea and throws it over, the research workshop will work overtime to further study, enhancing the ability of independent research.
Now they also have some independent research capabilities, but they all feel that they are not as good as the ideas given by Fan Jingjing, so their focus is still on the ideas of putting Jingjing.
However, Fan Jingjing also said that they had any ideas that they could put forward, and Fan Jingjing could point out the direction a little after reading it.
Then we study the people in the workshop, and then we continue to study how to produce it.
Only when something is produced that can be used and people are willing to buy it, then there is a way to do further research.
After all, if you want to make the final product, you must have a lot of research funds, but Jiang Blacksmith, as well as the Fan family manor, do not have so much funds, you can do research for them, you can only come step by step, not to mention, if you do it in one step, it will be difficult to progress.
In fact, most of what they need to overcome are technical difficulties.
What's more, doing research slowly has the advantage that things can be sold continuously.
After the good things come out, those who bought them before will often buy another one and give the old mechanism to others.
The products of this period are sturdy, and they can be sold second-hand.
New products often have more and more novel ideas than old products, which is the purpose of the existence of research institutions, which can also enhance the value and differentiate the product with different values.
There are simply too many iron products studied in the blacksmith's workshop of the ginger blacksmith now, and some things can be replaced by other things.
In Fan Jingjing's technological era, iron was cheaper, but it was slower-growing wood, although it was, renewable resources were relatively expensive resources.
So gradually, many people replaced it with other things, and even ceramics became an important item to replace wood.
In the Tang Dynasty, on the contrary, all iron products are expensive supplies, not to mention that in order to prevent these iron products from spreading to the Turks, although the place where the Turks are located is an important source of various minerals in iron ore mines, they don't know, and the Tang people don't know.
Nomads who want iron tools often get them from Middle Earth, so they don't think about the idea of opening iron mines themselves at all, because they don't understand it either.
However, if they understand iron tools, for them, the biggest disadvantage is probably the way iron tools are made, and for them, this restriction is not too great, as long as they go to the south, find some craftsmen, and take them to the north to take good care of them, they will have these things.
For ordinary people, as long as they can survive, they will try their best to survive.