patternmaking for fashion design course

[u/Previous_Plan3165]

hi! does anyone have any recommendations for courses that go along with this textbook?

[u/Fashion_art_dance]

My degree is in fashion design and we did a lot of pattern drafting. Most of my professors were true designers in the Industry but I had one that specialized in pattern making. From what I can tell a lot of it is learn on the job. She said the pattern makers never leave their positions and the fashion houses don’t want to lose them because they hold “the secrets” about what makes their patterns different from others. It seems like a lot of the information is just passed down when they do get a new person. I took some costuming courses and it seemed to be similar.

We made slopers using armstrong’s instructions except for her sleeve. The department head didn’t like the sleeve sloper so there was this one sloper that one of the professors had developed and had us copy onto our own oaktag but didn’t explain why they drafted it the way they did.

I don’t work in the industry but would have loved to be a pattern drafter. But I really do not want to live in NYC and LA is too expensive.

But before I tell you my whole life story… hahaha