pattern making/clothes designing

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Sat, 03/05/2011 - 13:02
meneni
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Greetings to all,

 

I have a question when designing or making clothes how do you make clothes for people without ever measuring them? I know that there is a standard size guide but they only provide the bust, waist and hip measurement for the standard size for small, medium,large etc. how do you find the shoulder width to make the pattern and garmet? thank you in advance for the strength.

 

Meneni

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Fri, 03/11/2011 - 18:58
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Nehzat
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Re: Making Cloths Without Measuring

Dear meneni,

The best thing to do is to take a bunch of measurements from your friends and relatives, then keep these measurements in a book and use them as a tool to guide you when making garments of different sizes, without having all the measurements.

For example you want to sew a garment and the measurements for the bust, waist, and hip are close to your friend "Mary's" measurements. Now you can use Mary's other measurements like her neck circumference, shoulder width, front and back bodice length etc... to fill in the gaps.

I hope this helps, happy sewing.

 

Nehzat

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