Now You Know Some Important Factors in Modern Tailoring
Tuesday 22 January 2019
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Some Important Factors in Modern Tailoring
Amit Kumar Das
Founder of "টেক্সটাইল ম্যানিয়া" Blog
Pabna Textile engineering college, Pabna, Bangladesh
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Generally when garments manufacturers prepare to make model for any particular apparel, they try to make them beautiful as well as comfortable. Because an components of garments involved in meeting the skin requirements. They are garment fit, garment slip and fabric stretch.
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Garment slip, which depends on frictional coefficient between skin and fabric’s and different layers of fabric.
Next factor is fabric stretch; fabric stretch controls body pressure is largely dependent of fabric’s elastic character and elastic recovery properties.
If fabric has low resistance to stretch and high friction against the skin and other fabric then it tends to stretch rather than slip.
Making complex design for acting and modelling those factors are very important to follow. Otherwise in modern tailoring dress are made in such a way that two persons of fat and thin looks same. Fat person looks slim for slim fitting dress.
Adjusting garment fitting, garment slip and fabric stretch some areas of human body are identified which are the knee, the back and the elbow.
The measurements of skin strain at those identified areas are given in the table bellows.
| Body Element | Body Movement | Local Skin Strain% | |||
| Horizontal | Vertical | ||||
| Knee | | Men | Women | Men | Women |
| Elbow | Stand-sit | 21% | 19% | 41% | 43% |
| Back | Straight full bend | 24% | 25% | 50% | 51% |
| | Straight Forward Raised Arm | 33% | 31% | | |
| | Straight Elbow on table | 28% | 28% | | |
| | Straight Elbow bending | 16% | 16% | | |
| | Straight-Shoe trying | 47% | 47% | | |