Creating forms for women’s clothing by draping techniques

Abstract

This paper presents research results of techniques of draping on mannequins to create forms for women’s clothing. In the advanced countries, this method is applied very strongly to patternmaking in the field of fashion design. In Vietnam, it is taught for subjects of costume design at the universities, colleges where fashion design and garment technology have been taught. Subjects for draping are blocks to make stitches in cloth with much kind of styles from basic styles to complex styles, such as dress, evening dress and wedding dress. Draping fabric has content 100% cotton using for draping on the mannequin, main fabrics are satin fabrics, drill fabric with many colors from light color to dark color. These fabrics have content spandex fiber and ironed by heat only. The results show process creates 3D blocks and steps draping for dress ??????/on mannequin