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Introduction - It's smart — for many reasons — to learn something about dress designing.
Even if there are no serious ambitions to break into the field of dress designing and dress making, knowledge in these matters helps to cultivate better taste and appreciation of the background of each creation — it enables you to judge good design and good construction in the clothes you buy.
01. Fashion Styles - In the arts — in its pure sense — style refers to that excellence and quality of execution or expression which distinguishes it from all others of similar form. In fashion it can also refer to the inspired and elegant relation between the requirements of a particular moment in time space and the designer's expression of it in line, color, silhouette, and material translated into an appropriate costume.
02. Original Design - The couturier or dressmaker capable of creating original design is an artist — as a sculptor working with the material on hand to create and mold a pleasing effect — one which creates an attractive picture by enhancing the best qualities of the wearer and unobtrusively subduing or camouflaging the less perfect points by applying the skill which comes with knowledge and practice.
03. Color - As color has a tremendous emotional impact and effect on moods and appearance its importance in fashion designing is without question; and because of its importance it is well to learn something about it now.
Color comes from light reflected, from the visible spectrum of radiant energy produced by electromagnetic waves. Light and color are composed of atoms traveling in waves at a speed of over 186,000 miles per second.
04. Fool The Eye - This is the French term for an art form which literally means "FOOL THE EYE". It refers to the painting of scenery, statuary, or furniture on the walls of the room so that an illusion of it as reality is created, indicating how easily the eye is fooled.
We can use these same principles inherent in the tricks our eyes play on us to create an illusion of better proportion in the apparent figure. By so doing we can appear to increase or decrease any dimension under observation. Any figure can be made to appear shorter or taller, stouter or thinner, dumpy or svelte, by a variety of means which we will describe.
05. Tools + Materials - Dress designing and dress making are as far apart as architectural designing and laying bricks, or reading blue prints, and yet — if the artist is going to design a dress or a building — in order to design not only a beautiful creation which can be executed and put to practical use — it will also be necessary to have knowledge of the dressmaking, or bricklaying, or the practical application of it.
06. Sewing Techniques - BASTING IS A TEMPORARY STITCH TO HOLD FABRIC TOGETHER DURING FITTINGAND STITCHING ....
THE TYPE OF SEAMS YOU WILL SEW WILL BE DETERMINED BY THE MATERIAL USED. SOME SEAMS HAVE TO BE STRENGTHENED, OTHERS HAVE TO BE FINISHED .....
BUTTONHOLES ARE BOTH DEOORATIVE AND USEFUL. THERE ARE VARIOUS WAYS TO MAKE THEM. THE METHOD DEPENDS ON THE MATERIAL AND THE DESIGN Of THE GARMENT. IT'S ESSENTIAL TO POSITION THEM CORRECTLY AND-MARK AND MEASURE THEM SO THAT THE FINISHED BUTTONHOLES ARE ALL EVEN AND EQUAL. .....
07. Success - Aside from the originality of the design and its artistic merit, successful costume designing depends on perfect fit.
In transferring the size and shape of the three dimensions of the human figure to the flat planes of the pattern and thence to the draping of the fabric, certain basic measurements have to be taken in every case — and this is notwithstanding the loose or tight fit of the finished creation. In ready made patterns the measurements are the ideal or average proportions for each size listed.
08. Your Material - With a basic knowledge of how to draft a simple pattern and how to draft variations of design for any part of the pattern, we can now begin to think of the materials.
In choosing your material you must keep several things in mind. Keep the style you have designed in mind. Remember to judge the material for its suitability as far as season, occasion, and the individual who will wear it is concerned.
09. Start To Finish - Up to this point, if you have cut and marked your material properly — you are now ready to proceed.
Baste or pin in all darts, tucks, and any other inside design form shaping details.
Stay stitch all curved and bias edges to prevent stretching material out of shape. Remember to handle your material lightly at all times.
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