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Figured out I was grading my patterns backwards for 3 years
It took my friend Lena from fashion school to point it out. She looked at my size run for a dress I was working on and asked why my grade rules were moving in the wrong direction from the base size. I had been adding width in the bust when going down a size and subtracting when going up. No idea how I missed it for so long. That explains why my samples always looked weird on anyone outside a size 6. I must have just gotten used to faking it with alterations. Has anyone else realized they were doing a basic step totally wrong way past when they should have known better?
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zarat371d ago
waderamirez I gotta push back a little here. I don't think it's as ridiculous as people are making it sound. Three years is a long time sure, but pattern grading is one of those things where if you learn it wrong early on and nobody catches it, your brain just accepts it as normal. Especially if you mostly worked on your own fit and just tweaked samples until they looked okay on one size. I bet a lot of people have weird blind spots like this but just never had someone like Lena point it out. It's more about how easy it is to get stuck in a routine than about being careless or dumb. Honestly, props to you for sharing it because most people would just pretend it never happened.
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waderamirez1d ago
Holy crap, three years?! That's wild. I'm sitting here trying to figure out how you even managed to do that for so long without a single sample just looking completely wrong on a mannequin. Your friend must have been staring at that pattern like "is this person serious?" I bet you've got a whole trunk full of dresses that are just disasters waiting to happen on anyone but that one size.
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adam4142d ago
Wait, so you've been going the wrong way for THREE years and just never questioned why nothing fit right? That's some impressive dedication to the wrong answer, I gotta say.
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