Posts Tagged: fashion terms

by Caroline Brown, handbag designer for Rosetti Lei & Fung and Brandon Graham, WouldYouRockThis.com brand manager.

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…we got into a conversation about how easy it is to forget the fundamentals like draping and filling out a spec sheet. Funny thing, we both forgot how to measure shoulder slope. We knew the term, but couldn’t remember how to take the measurement. After talking about it and sketching it out on a napkin we figured it out.

Grading isn’t taught as part of academic fashion education, but a skill, Cavazza observes, that most companies today will teach hands on, training within the company. When someone comes to Cavazza interested in being a grader, the first thing he asks is: “Do you like math and fractions? If you don’t like [...]

A marker is the paper layout for cutting pattern pieces. Cavazza sees making markers as building puzzles, “where you’re not sure what the finished product is going to look like.” He has loved building and solving puzzles since he was a kid, a quality he sees as essential for someone who [...]