To help needlewomen: Ready-made Costume Patterns

When buying ready-made clothes, we often come across the fact that planting things by the figure leaves much to be desired, and the quality of tailoring does not always correspond to the amount spent. In the end, we get a spoiled mood and plan additional expenses for fitting clothes in the studio, or for private masters.

But many women (secretly: men) can sew, and, quite well. Those who do not know how to handle a needle, scissors and do not know what kind of monster this is - a sewing machine, with a strong desire and a reserve of patience can quite learn the tailor's craft. What for?

Simply in order to be able to dress fashionably and tastefully, without spending large sums to buy poor-quality consumer goods. What can we say about high-quality branded things - such clothes are too much for "to hell with", to say the least. In order to create an exclusive model with your own hands, it is not necessary to be able to build complex drawings, it is enough to properly and accurately sew. Find the necessary patterns of suits, skirts, dresses, coats, and in general - any clothes, now is not a problem.

For sewers, a lot of magazines are available, offering ready-made patterns of jackets and raincoats, blouses, trousers, sports suits, evening dresses and even swimsuits and underwear. In addition, do not forget about the World Wide Web - you just need to type in the search engine query, for example : free patterns of coats, as there will be many sites offering a download drawing.

Especially popular are the patterns of business and classical style suits , patterns of clothes for children and schemes of carnival costumes. The fact is that drawing a skirt or dress drawing is much easier, so many people who have a small skill in designing clothes will be able to cope with the creation of a suitable pattern. And in order to create a competent drawing of a jacket with a collar, or pants of different configurations, you will need more serious knowledge and skills, plus the skills of modeling clothes.

How to adapt a suit pattern for individual parameters

Costumes are a universal form of clothing. This category includes not only business suits for the office, but also many other options: summer suits of bright colors with a skirt or trousers, knitted models for the house and sports suits, suits for attending school or college, multi-layered fantasy models and costumes for children.

To choose suitable patterns of costumes, it is necessary to clearly imagine in which style there should be ready-made things, with what it will be possible to combine a suit, what material will be used for sewing.

For an ideal fit to the figure, you may have to make some adjustments to the patterns of costumes, Because they are designed, basically, for standard sizes. Of course, there are special patterns for different figures, but they are not so diverse.

Make an adjustment is not as difficult as it seems. First of all, you need to know all the measurements that are necessary to build the basic design: the volume of the chest, hips, waist, shoulder width, sleeve length and products in the finished form. In addition, you may need: girth of the neck, shoulder (arms in the widest upper part), trousers length along the inner step seam, depth of the decollete and other specifying measures. If the growth is non-standard, small or large, you can lengthen or shorten the pattern, adjusting centimeters along the waist line, elbow and knee lines. An important point: it is through these lines that you can adjust the growth changes, then all proportions of the figure will be observed.

If you just need to change the style, lengthen or shorten the pattern, you can simply by the lines of the bottom of the product. Surplus along the waist line "hides" in constructive tucks or relief seams, convexity along the breast line is also regulated by a change in the depth of the darts. The main changes, if they are significant, can be done on paper, and smaller amendments are introduced into the product already in the process of testing. Little advice: if you are not confident in your abilities and the experience of tailoring is still not enough, you can practice on inexpensive material with a similar structure and density. Then it remains only to transfer the changes to the pattern and boldly take on the job.

Tatyana Zinkevich