A good friend and myself love to sew. We love shinkis. So we make our own little clothes for them, and know a lot of other people are interested in shinki clothing as well! So we're thinking of making an etsy shop to sell shinki clothing. We want to make it affordable, cute and well put together. We can do cute and sturdy, but the affordable part is a big question mark to us.
We're thinking about 8-15 CAD for a complete outfit, less elaborate things costing less. A complete outfit would consist of underwear (socks, panties, bra) & overclothes (shirt & pants/skirt or dress). Maybe shoes too if we can find some doll shoes to buy that work. We were also thinking about taking commissions IE we design and make unique clothes specifically for one person, which we think would run around 13-18 CAD.
So our question to everyone: what is "affordable" for an outfit? Is our proposed price too high, or too low, or ok?
We want to cover the cost of fabric etc as well as make a small profit (to buy more shinkis and materials with ofc). Then there's the labor to factor in-- it isn't easy to sew so small, and we handsew a lot of things rather than use a machine (certain details are very very difficult to use a machine for).Thanks for reading, and any time taken to reply/consider this!
