Study on Draping of Basic Bodice-Fashion Draping Experiment Number:1

Study on Draping of Basic Bodice-Fashion Draping Experiment Number:1

Draping practicals are carried on in Level: 3, Term: 2 of the Department of Textile Fashion and Design (DoTFD) students’ academic life. In the practical classes they go through the theoretical ideas and then apply them practically on the dress making forms. Draping of basic bodice is the first lesson that the students experiment on their lab.

Shariful Islam Akash is now a Level: 4, Term: 1 student and he has done several experiments on fashion draping.

In this series, we are going to cover his experiments done in the Fashion Draping lab with necessary pictures for your reference and easy understanding.

Please go through the instructions and see the necessary pictures. We hope that you’ll be able to learn a lot as a beginner. Also feel free to give us any suggestion regarding this endeavour. We’ll obviously address them and incorporate accordingly.

 

Figure 1 Draping of Basic Bodice (front)

Figure 1 Draping of Basic Bodice (front)

 

Working Procedure:

  • A marking fabric of 24”×18” was taken for draping purpose. 1” allowance is taken in the warp side and a straight line is drawn there which is placed aligned with Center Front line of the model. A pin is placed at Center Front Neck and another one placed in Center Front Waist. Then several pins are placed in the Center Front line.
  • Then the fabric is draped at High Shoulder Point and a pin was placed there. Then further draping is done and pinned at Shoulder tip. It is further draped around armhole making the fabric body fit with the model. A pin is placed under Armhole.
  • Then the fabric is draped and pinned following side seam until it meets waist line.
  • Pins are placed following waist line and a dart point is found alongside the Princess Line. To identify dart point line pins are placed from both sides.
  • During pinning the points and lines several slashing is done maintaining the distance from the lines. After all pins are placed the lines are connected with marking pen. Thus the draping process is done.
  • The Fabric is the taken out of the model body and placed in a board. The outlines are corrected. Armhole is increased 1” below and Neck is increased ¼” below from the given line. After giving proper allowance the pattern is ready.
  • The draping was done very carefully and pins were placed with cautiousness.

Md. Shariful Islam Akash

Department of Textile Fashion and Design, Batch: 45

Bangladesh University of Textiles (BUTEX)

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A Discussion on the Pattern Making Process for a Selected Dress

A Discussion on the Pattern Making Process for a Selected Dress

Why a Discussion on Pattern Making Process?

As we need patterns to form a final dress, we worked on making patterns according to our inspiration and selected dress style. The inspiration of the dress was ‘Breath of fresh air’- a post pandemic liberating expression when the world came out from their confined zones to take the breath of fresh air. As we have already discussed the season, customer profile, theme board, mood board and all the necessary information in our portfolio, we are just covering the process report of pattern.

Contents

  • Introduction
  • Some background of the work
  • A list of pattern pieces
  • Tops
  • Front bodice (right and left)
  • Back bodice (cut on fold)
  • Sleeve
  • Bottom Portion
  • Front skirt (layer 1 and 2)
  • Front skirt (layer 3)
  • Basic skirt (back)
  • Production pattern
  • Sewing details
  • Conclusion

Some background of the work:

Theme name: Breath of fresh air

Season: Spring/ Summer 2022 Dress category: Casual Streetwear Customer profile:

Gender: Female

Age: 18-25

Country: United States of America (USA)

Region: New York City

Educatonal status: A-leve to undergrad student

Occupaton: Student

Monthly expense: $2000

Hobby: Travelling, reading

Figure 1 Final dress sketch. Photo courtesy: Kazi Purba.

A list of pattern pieces:

  • Front bodice (right)
  • Front bodice (left)
  • Back bodice (cut on fold)
  • Sleeve (1*2= 2)
  • Skirt (Front) Layer 1, Layer 2.
  • Skirt (Front) Layer 3
  • Skirt (Back) Layer 4

Size of the pattern: All the patterns are made using the measurement of the size 10 dummy.

Tops:

We have mainly done the patterns in two stages- 1. Basic block and 2. Production Pattern (by adding allowance to the basic block)

1. Basic Block

Front bodice (right and left)

The front bodice is mainly done using the basic bodice and a touch of dart manipulation.

 

Figure 1: Basic bodice (front). Photo courtesy: Kazi Purba

 

As our top is asymmetrical, we couldn’t just make the two parts of the front bodice same by cut and fold. That is why, we had to take the basic bodice, then cut and fold and then we had to perform dart manipulation.

 

Figure 2: The full part pattern with dart manipulation. Photo courtesy: Kazi Purba

 

Figure 3: Two parts (right and left) of the front bodice with darts. Photo courtesy: Kazi Purba

 

Back bodice (cut on fold)

For our dress, we kept the basic back bodice. The basic back bodice was made with the size 10 dummy measurement. This is done by cut and fold.

 

Figure 4: Basic bodice.(back). Photo courtesy: Kazi Purba.

 

Sleeve

The sleeve is made according to the basic sleeve.

Figure 5: Sleeve. Photo courtesy: Kazi Purba

Bottom Portion

Front skirt (layer 1 and 2)

 

According to our design, we have developed the pattern into three layers for the front skirt.

 

The basic front skirt is firstly cut on fold and then it is customized according to the design of the dress using vary from curve ruler. Two patterns are made in this way. The layer 1 and 2. The layer 2 is 3 ich longer than the layer 1

 

 

Figure 6: Layer 1, 2 and 3 of front skirt. Photo courtesy: Kazi Purba

The front skirt is made by using the basic front skirt.

 

Front skirt (layer 3)

The layer 3 is made by using the flipped version of the layer 2.

 

Basic skirt (back)

Figure 7: Basic skirt. (back). Photo courtesy: Kazi Purba.

The back of the bottom part of the dress is developed using the basic skirt. It is used for cut and fold.

 

Production pattern:

Patterns are traced and made again using seam allowance.

Tops

 

Figure 8: Two parts (right and left) of the front bodice with darts(Production pattern). Photo courtesy: Kazi Purba.

Figure 9: : Basic bodice.(back) Production Pattern. Photo courtesy: Kazi Purba.

Figure 10: Sleeve (Production pattern) Photo courtesy: Kazi Purba

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bottom portion

 

 

Figure 11: Layer 1 and 2 of Front skirt (Production pattern). Photo courtesy: Kazi Purba

Figure 12: Basic skirt. (back) Production pattern. Photo courtesy: Kazi Purba

Sewing details:

Side seam is done by chain stitch using Overlock machine.

And the others are done by Plain stitch using Single needle lock stitch machine.

Conclusion:

The patterns were made with reference to the basic blocks we created in our early pattern courses.They were traced and then customized accordingly. The basic patterns that we learnt to make, gave us a great opportunity to understand more complex patterns and thus we implemented them to make patterns for our designed dress. The previous actions (eg. Theme board, mood board, etc.) and further actions were taken accordingly to make the dress which we have covered in the portfolio.

The report was written by: Kazi Purba, the Founder and President of Fashionnovation, for his final year Portfolio project in Department of Textile Fashion and Design, Bangladesh University of Textiles (BUTEX).

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