Sleeves, pant legs and even bodices start out as nets. When fashion designers cut them out of the fabric, they’re flat– and they may not look at all like what they’re meant to be. A cap sleeve may look like a semicircle at first. Attach it to the arm hole, and it curves over the shoulder. So fashion designers need net drawing to make clothes. At first, it’s flat, but when you fold it or sew them together, it become 3 dimensional.
Every piece of fashion design is a 3-D clothes, which means that it has width, length and height, so people could wear it. You can look at the clothes at different angles, and it’s not flat. For a 3-D object, you can calculate the volume of it, but a 2-D object could not.
For fashion designers, they need to know the basic 2-D patterns in order to design a clothes, and 2-D shapes are part of math. To design a clothes, the designer need to draw out each piece of the whole clothes, and each drawing is a 2 dimensional shape, which means that it’s flat, when you look at it with your eyes parallel to that piece, it just looks like a line.
Fashion design involved solving math problems. For example, a designer is making a dress, she need to know how much fabric she needs to make the dress. So, she need to calculate the area of each shape, like rectangle, triangle, circle, trapezoid, and more. Math and fashion design are related.
Fashion designers need an understanding of geometry. They would use it when they design clothes, for examples : basic shapes and 3D shapes, angles, parallel lines and transversals… they are all about geometry. Every piece of clothing would have at least one design that’s related to geometry, and geometry is part of Math.
Below are some pictures about fashion designs and geometry.
