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Posted on: 6/2/18 6:17 AM ET
Hi!
I am making a dress for a wedding at the moment and I had to make a lot of changes (f.e. I cut some fabric from the shoulders because it was loose, and from the side seams also).
When you work professionaly, so you have to tear the seams apart and copy the pattern that came up on the fabric, on the paper again?
Generally I want to find what a professional pattern maker/fashion designer do because they teached us actually nothing at fashion school and I'm not sure I can work as a professional yet.
I hope you understand the question.
Thank you!
I am making a dress for a wedding at the moment and I had to make a lot of changes (f.e. I cut some fabric from the shoulders because it was loose, and from the side seams also).
When you work professionaly, so you have to tear the seams apart and copy the pattern that came up on the fabric, on the paper again?
Generally I want to find what a professional pattern maker/fashion designer do because they teached us actually nothing at fashion school and I'm not sure I can work as a professional yet.
I hope you understand the question.
Thank you!
Posted on: 6/2/18 7:11 AM ET
In short, yes. Your adjustments forms the basis of your new pattern.
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Posted on: 6/2/18 12:57 PM ET
In reply to joannakj
If your pattern is intended for one garment made for one person -- a custom dress, for instance -- you would not transfer your corrections back to the paper pattern if your pattern would never be used again. If, however, your first garment was a mockup (=toile, muslin), you will want to transfer your corrections to the pattern so you can cut the final garment.
If, however, you were a patternmaker for a company making ready to wear, you would transfer all the corrections back to your paper pattern, including remaking any part of the pattern that changed. That is because the next step will be to have another sample cut, sewn and fitted and corrected again. It is not uncommon in the ready to wear world to have 5 or so sample cycles before the design is approved for manufacturing.
Do you know Kathleen Fasanella's site http://fashion-incubator.com There is a lot of good information there about most parts of the design cycle there. She also has a book, Entrepreneur's Guide to Sewn Product Manufacturing, that may be of interest to you.
-- Edited on 6/2/18 at 1:00 PM --
If, however, you were a patternmaker for a company making ready to wear, you would transfer all the corrections back to your paper pattern, including remaking any part of the pattern that changed. That is because the next step will be to have another sample cut, sewn and fitted and corrected again. It is not uncommon in the ready to wear world to have 5 or so sample cycles before the design is approved for manufacturing.
Do you know Kathleen Fasanella's site http://fashion-incubator.com There is a lot of good information there about most parts of the design cycle there. She also has a book, Entrepreneur's Guide to Sewn Product Manufacturing, that may be of interest to you.
-- Edited on 6/2/18 at 1:00 PM --
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