The first step is to pad the form to fit your body. Rox: winner for cheap forms, good proportionsĪnd if you want to go totally DIY, you can make your own! Just be warned that with this technique the pinning surface isn't that great. I've heard mixed reviews, but cool concept. Some other features to keep in mind are collapsable shoulders (really handy for tight garments), pinnability (some really cheap forms don't have a nice surface to pin into), and a foot pedal for raising the form up and down.Īlvanon: also expensive, based on thorough research of body shapes for a more realistic fit.įabulous Fit: designed to be customized, not that expensive. Once you find a form with similar positioning of these major parts of your body, you can look at the circumference of the bust/underbust/waist/hips, and choose a form from there. But you aren't going to be able to move the bust up and down, or shorten the torso. In particular take note of the position of your bust apex, and back neck to waist measurement. Any form can be padded out, so you always want to get a form where every measurement is either equal to or smaller than yours. There are a lot of different variations in fit and proportion out there, so thoroughly measure your body and do your research. I'm not going to go into too much detail on the different types of dress forms out there, but I will say that I've been using a cheap one (Studio One) for years and it has served me as well as the expensive Wolf forms I used in fashion school (the industry standard).īy far the most important thing is getting a form that closely fits your proportions, beyond a simple bust-waist-hip measurement. All patterns, from a basic pattern like this to a complicated draped design, will follow very similar principles. While buying a flat pattern would probably be the quicker way to go in this case since it is an common shape, I wanted to keep it simple in order to demonstrate the basic process of draping, fitting, and drafting the pattern. In this tutorial I am draping a simple form fitting pattern.
What I love about draping is that it is easier for me to visualize than flat pattern making, as creating a shape in 3D feels like a more organic process than drafting in 2D.
Cowls, ruching, asymmetry, and any elements that are hard to visualize in a flat fashion are where dress forms are truly indispensable. Draping is useful for all kinds of patternmaking, but particularly for anything with draped elements (hence the name), like the two examples above. Then you would copy that over to a new paper pattern, and voila, new pattern.ĭraping is patternmaking done on the form. You would slash the skirt at regular intervals, and pivot the pieces apart from the waist until the desired level of flare is achieved. An easy example to visualize is if you had a straight skirt, and wanted it to be A-Line.
#Dress form how to
Before we get started with how to make a pattern from a form, let's first ask the question, why? There are two main ways to make a pattern - flat pattern making, and draping.įlat pattern making involves taking a basic flat pattern (sloper), and altering it to the desired style in flat paper form through cutting, measuring, and taping.
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