Skirts and Pants
Extend flat pattern skills to skirt and pant development. Apply techniques learned in bodice work to lower body garments with their specific technical requirements.
What You'll Learn:
Skirt Design and Development
- Basic skirt block drafting
- Dart manipulation on skirts (creating style lines, converting to volume)
- Silhouette variations: A-line, flare, wrap, gathered, tucked
- Paneled skirt construction for design interest
- Asymmetric skirt designs
Shirt Design Applications
- Yoke construction and placement
- Asymmetric shirt designs
- Applying flat pattern techniques to casual garments
Pant Construction Fundamentals
- Pant-specific measurements and their critical relationships
- Understanding crotch depth and saddle depth
- Waist-to-hip proportion in pant fit
- Why pant fitting is technically distinct from upper body fitting
Pant Style Development
- Basic pant block drafting
- Silhouette variations: slim leg, straight leg, wide leg, palazzo
- Applying flat pattern techniques to pants
- Maintaining proper fit while changing silhouette
Pant Construction Details
- Pocket types and placement (in-seam, patch, welt)
- Fly front construction and pattern requirements
- Waistband variations
- Other pant-specific technical details
Practice Application
- Draft basic skirt and pant blocks
- Develop style variations using flat pattern techniques
- Problem-solve fit issues specific to lower body garments
Why This Matters:
Skirts and pants have different technical requirements than bodices but use the same flat pattern manipulation principles. Understanding how to apply techniques across garment types builds comprehensive pattern making ability. Pant fitting specifically requires understanding relationships between measurements that don't matter for upper body.
By Module End: You'll be able to draft skirts and pants, apply flat pattern techniques to lower body garments, and understand pant-specific fitting and construction requirements.
