Regarding yesterday’s failed experiment, it never occurred to me that the cutting of the thing would be the difference (just goes to show how well I troubleshoot). Some first thoughts, one, more heads are better than one. Danielle -a student- was the first to offer a solution.…
Month: March 2006
Fitting logic pt. 2
Regarding Cricket Lee’s handy dandy Fitting SystemTM aka Fit Logic comes Clothes That Fit the Woman, Not the Store from this morning’s NY Times. Not surprisingly, the system hasn’t been a big hit (my previous article is here). From the NYT article:
…So perhaps it is unsurprising that the sizing system, called Fitlogic, has hit some bumps in the road.
Straw into gold
A knack for spinning straw into gold? Why, I do that daily. Or try to anyway. This quiz has me pegged, good grief, she’s even sewing. However, I wanted to be Robin Hood rather than Maid Marian. What kind of princess are you?…
A failed experiment
Some of us have been continuing to discuss alternative methods to finishing off the slit opening of the sleeve in the reverse engineering tutorial series. Here’s a photo of the finished product from part 5 of the series:
Jess said in the forum that he has a shirt in which the pattern of the placket was one long continuous piece.…
Size is a matter of opinion?
As I mentioned before, I’m in the process of gathering information to explain and quantify grading in the context of what I’d said before:
……consumers have the expectation that if they gain weight, they should be able to grab the next largest size in the sequence and obtain a good fit.