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How To Change Patternmakers (or Graders or Factories) Without Changing Your Fit and Sizing

Fit, Sizing

Switching patternmakers, graders, or factories doesn’t mean starting over on your fit and sizing. You’ve worked hard to achieve your brand’s fit and sizing. There is no need to throw that away. With the right tools, open communication, and quality checks, you can find a better-fit partner without risking a worse fit for your products.

Size-Inclusive Fit Starts With Size-Inclusive Design

Fashion Design, Fit, Sizing

Size-inclusive fit doesn’t just begin with grading more sizes of your pattern. It starts far earlier in the design stage. Size-inclusivity starts with how you think about your customer, conceptualize your designs, and consider each detail for different bodies.

These Are The Two Most Difficult Areas On A Garment To Fit – And They Have Several Things In Common

Fit, Patternmaking

Fitting is one of the key steps of producing any garment. Armholes and pant rises are two areas that seem to cause the most problems. They are very different areas of the garment, but they actually have a lot in common.

7 Ways Your Pattern Needs To Be Drafted To Move

Fit, Patternmaking

Think about your favorite pieces of clothing. They probably are the ones that don’t hold you back from any of the activities throughout your day. This is why drafting patterns and fit testing for movement is so crucial. Here are seven ways that the pattern and resulting garment need to move.

Do Expensive Clothes Fit Better Than Cheap Ones?

Fit, Product Development

I recently had a conversation about whether expensive clothes fit better than cheap ones. This is an interesting question – both for consumers of fashion trying to figure out what items are worth buying, and for brands wanting to make clothes that fit. Is there a correlation between price and fit? Let’s explore.

5 Possible Reasons The Design Isn’t Working

Fashion Design, Fit

The design doesn’t look nearly as good in real life as it did in your head or sketch. You’re not sure what’s wrong, but something with the design just isn’t working. There can be many reasons why a design isn’t working. Here are the five I see most often.

Four Ways To Use 3D For Fashion Design & Development

Fit, Product Development, Sizing, Textile Print

3D software offers an array of tools that can help reduce physical samples, speed up design and development, and communicate designs more effectively. If you have been wanting to start using 3D in your process and are wondering how to do so, here are four of my favorite ways to use 3D for fashion.

3 Tips For Fitting Your Customers And Not Just Your Fit Model

Fit, Mindset, Product Development

The goal with a fit model is to get the garment to fit your average customer, not to make a bespoke garment just for the model. I think that makes a difference. Here are things to keep in mind during fittings to make sure you are fitting your customers and not just your fit model.

Are Plus Sizes Actually Harder To Fit?

Fashion Design, Fit, Patternmaking, Sizing

In the fashion industry or not, it seems like the assumption is that plus sizes are harder to fit. But, is it actually true that plus sizes are harder to fit or has our society spent so much of its attention dressing thin people that it has made us wary of dressing larger bodies?

How To Clearly Communicate Fit Comments (Even If You Aren’t A Technical Designer)

Fit, How To

It is rare that that very first sample will be 100% exactly what you wanted. So how do you relay to your patternmaker the changes you want to make? In this post, we’ll look at five things you can do to clearly communicate your desired changes even if you aren’t a technical designer.

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