Zhang Xiaoquan

Beginner's Guide Tools: Hands, books, a fully-equipped sewing kit (with a flexible tape measure and pins), scissors, a meter ruler (leftover from high school), and a straightening iron. Cost: Excluding your hands, all the tools can be purchased for less than 100 yuan. And who doesn't have a sewing kit, ruler, and scissors at home? You don't really need to buy them. This is the type I bought for 20 yuan at Muji. The initial decision to make my own hanfu came after graduation season, when my thesis defense was over and I had already signed a job contract. I just had to wait for graduation and then report to the company. With nothing to do at home, I started thinking about making hanfu. After watching many tutorials shared by seniors, I opened Taobao and started buying fabric. I initially bought cheap fabric for practice. It was from a store called "Six Fields of Jiangnan," which offered gradient chiffon for 10 yuan per 6 meters. I bought 10 yuan worth of gray-white gradient tencel chiffon and a 1-yuan lucky bag that contained a large piece of blue-white gradient chiffon, about 1.5x1.5 meters. Yes, 1 yuan. The lining fabric was white…