Design
Grading Is Not Scaling: Why a Size 12 Is Not an Enlarged Size 6
Human bodies do not grow proportionally, and the pattern-making discipline of grading exists because arithmetic enlargement produces garments that fit nobody.
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Design: Craft and Visual Ideas
Design covers the work that happens before production: blocks, grading, seam selection, interfacing, closures and the sample rounds that fix a fit. Articles explain why a shoulder sits cleanly or a hem twists. For designers, pattern cutters and readers who inspect construction in stores.
How a garment is designed and built: pattern blocks, grading, seam choices, interfacing, closures and the sampling rounds that settle a fit.
Design
Why Shoulders Collapse and How Interfacing Decides Whether Form Survives
A shoulder is a loaded structure disguised as fabric, and the difference between a crisp line at year three and a puckered slope is decided before the first fitting.
Design
How Grainline Changes Garment Drape and Holds a Silhouette in Place
The direction a fabric is cut determines how it falls, stretches, and ages — and it is the single most under-explained variable in ready-to-wear quality.