First, it seems the standard to offer the disclaimer that us new people are, well, new. I've lurked the forums for quite some time, even began the process to sign up, but only today decided that it's time to enter the ring. I have combed through the threads for a while looking for an answer to my question, but have decided I may as well ask then hope either an answer is offered or I am pointed in the correct direction.
Now to the backstory part. I spent this last school year in fashion school and have decided to take an undisclosed period of time off. Myriad reasons contributed to this decision, but don't relate to the important bit of the question. During my time there, it was the usual foundation level stuff, so, unfortunately, no work with pattern making.
Having returned to my home town, I have decided to independently, at least for the immediate future, learn how to cut garments. I have purchased a book offline to begin the learning experience, and have had reasonable success as I work through it. As I got along, I do see relations between certain numbers and what results, but overall, I have yet to find a correlation between why "X" becomes "Y" and then results in "Z" when creating a garment.
My question is what measurements, or special, magical set of theorems, are used to result in garments (or their blocks and patterns, specifically) being made?
I do have a notion this is much like asking "what is architecture?" or "what constitutes good art?" in that there are many different schools of thought, so the answer could possibly differ from one person to the next. Since it's something with a tangible result, there is a starting point for putting numbers in to get garments out; it's construction on a small scale. I think it's one thing to know the way to make a block for different garments (and being able to manipulate them), but another to also understand why you are using the numbers you are to form said block.
Also, a note: I read the article on the SZ Magazine on Koeun Park and how she is trained in pattern cutting methodologies from Italy, Germany and England. Found this immensely interesting, and was perhaps a start to running down this rabbit hole so many months ago.
Now to the backstory part. I spent this last school year in fashion school and have decided to take an undisclosed period of time off. Myriad reasons contributed to this decision, but don't relate to the important bit of the question. During my time there, it was the usual foundation level stuff, so, unfortunately, no work with pattern making.
Having returned to my home town, I have decided to independently, at least for the immediate future, learn how to cut garments. I have purchased a book offline to begin the learning experience, and have had reasonable success as I work through it. As I got along, I do see relations between certain numbers and what results, but overall, I have yet to find a correlation between why "X" becomes "Y" and then results in "Z" when creating a garment.
My question is what measurements, or special, magical set of theorems, are used to result in garments (or their blocks and patterns, specifically) being made?
I do have a notion this is much like asking "what is architecture?" or "what constitutes good art?" in that there are many different schools of thought, so the answer could possibly differ from one person to the next. Since it's something with a tangible result, there is a starting point for putting numbers in to get garments out; it's construction on a small scale. I think it's one thing to know the way to make a block for different garments (and being able to manipulate them), but another to also understand why you are using the numbers you are to form said block.
Also, a note: I read the article on the SZ Magazine on Koeun Park and how she is trained in pattern cutting methodologies from Italy, Germany and England. Found this immensely interesting, and was perhaps a start to running down this rabbit hole so many months ago.
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