Custom Fitting & Trueing DVD

$35.00

In a time of busy schedules and many fitting issues, Connie Crawford’s Fitting DVD saves the day with up-to-date garment fitting techniques. This fitting DVD leads students through a shirt / blouse fitting project. Details cover the following: selecting the correct size pattern, checking the pattern size, checking the pattern for front to back balance, side seam balance, and armhole balance. It continues with drape-fitting the project, fitting the neckline, shoulder, armhole, sleeve, and trueing the pattern changes. Mastering the vital fitting principles of patterns will help avoid common fitting problems after the fashion fabric is cut.

Approximate Running Time:
Custom Fitting & Trueing: 1hr 5 min

Selecting a Pattern
Measuring The Mature Figure

Balance and Draping for a Couture Fit
	Checking Balance
	Draping Your Pattern
	Adjustments for the Mature Figure
	Industry Grading: Changes in the Shoulder
	Muslin Fitting: Changes to D-Cup
	Draping: Fitting the Shoulders
	Draping: Taking Out Gaposis
	Draping: Pitching Side Seams
	Draping: Adjusting the Back Neck Drop
	Draping: Adjustments for Dowager’s Hump
	Fish-Eye Darts for Fitting and Shaping
	Draping: Advantages of Princess Seams

Drafting Your Pattern Changes
	Draping Sleeves
	Mature Sleeve
	Sleeve Draft: Trueing on the Table Top
	Neckline Trueing: Eliminating Gaposis
	Trueing The Collar

References & Credits