A STUDY OF FASHION DESIGN AND PATTERN MAKING OF LADIES' DRESSES WITH DRAPERIES

• Main Authors: Petya Dineva, Zlatina Kazlacheva, Julieta Ilieva
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Trakia University 2016-12-01
• Series: Applied Researches in Technics, Technologies and Education
• Subjects: drapery; free draperies; fixed draperies; decorative and constructional function; fashion design; pattern making; ladies’ dresses
• Online Access: https://sites.google.com/a/trakia-uni.bg/artte/articles/artte-vol-4-no-4/Petya%20Dineva%2C%20Zlatina%20Kazlacheva%2C%20Julieta%20Ilieva.%20A%20STUDY%20OF%20FASHION%20DESIGN%20AND%20PATTERN%20MAKING%20OF%20LADIES%20DRESSES%20WITH%20DRAPERIES.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1

The draperies are the most interesting 3D element in fashion design. According to the ways of their constructing they are the most interesting 3D element for the process of pattern making too. They can be classified as free and fixed types. In clothing’ design the both types can be used as only decorative or combined decorative and constructional elements. The draperies are used in every type of ladies’ clothing but may be the ladies’ dresses give possibilities for the more interesting designs. An investigation of all possible ways for designing and pattern making of draperies with decorative and constructional function in fashion design of ladies’ dresses is presented in the paper. The free draperies located in the neckline have been presented in the paper, but the same ways of fashion design and pattern making can be used in down parts of dresses, skirts and trousers, in which draperies transform the waist darts. Analogical ways can be used in other details but in these cases the draperies will be with only decorative function. In the pattern making of the free draperies the number of the folds depends on the number of the equidistant arcs, but in the pattern making of the fixed draperies it is not binding the number of the folds to be equated to the number of lines which divide the detail. For the fixed draperied the fan-shaped arrangement according to only one line is enough and the bigger number of folds is a result of the interlacement. All studied in the paper ways of pattern making cover every possibility for fashion design of ladies’ dresses or other ladies’ garments with free or fixed draperies with decorative and constructional function. The results of the presented investigation of free and fixed draperies facilitate the process of fashion design and pattern making and gives opportunity for variety of models.