By,
Ms Megha Gupta, Assistant Professor
Satyam Fashion Institute
A match is more essential than pleasant. A person might have a garment of the highest construction, but if it doesn’t suit you well, it’ll look terrible. Improper fitting of clothes’ affects the buying decision of the customers. The top concern of clients especially teens and girls is, to purchase clothes that have the right fitting and yet fashionable.
The clothes, which after carrying, does not display any wrinkles pull or useless fluffiness are of the right match. Also, the garments with right located seams, darts, and grain lines have the best fitting ( Figure 1). The importance of the right fit of garment varies with its type. Like in the case of tight-becoming dress smallest of misfit is quite seen and noticeable, while for loose-becoming garments 100% proper in shape isn’t always required and does not make plenty difference.
Figure 1 : (source)
Apart from the customers, the ready-made garment producers and outlets also endure the consequences in terms of loss of time, assets and damage to merchandise because of fitting issue problems. Whether a particular garment is bought or rejected is decided primarily based on its match other than its visual attractiveness.
However well-fitted garments do not imply that they have got to be body-hugging or tight, different varieties of attire and clothes want a special diploma of the becoming, as the right becoming criteria for nighttime wear and nightwear, is different.
Issues related to Fitting and Sizing:
- Sizing Creation- It varies from one label to another, therefore inflicting dissatisfaction among clients. In India, the multinational corporations manufacturing clothes in step with the English and American requirements which aren’t at all practical.
- Body Variations- The sizing standards need to be organized in line with sexes and specific age groups, for a shirt that suits a man of 30 years of age would no longer match an antique man of 60 years of age. Also, Body kinds were classified as- spoon, ruler, hourglass, pear-shaped, diamond, triangle, inverted triangle and apple-shaped due to the distribution of flesh and fats in an individual’s body
Figure 2 (source)
- Style, design, and material in addition to production methods used- Each new style of outfit that is produced is aimed to fit a variety of bodies acceptably. Materials with stretching characteristics can shape a wider variety of bodies ( Figure 3).
Figure 3 (source)
- The technique of Size Indication- Generally the size is communicated on the label within the shape of a letter or number, like S, M, L, XL, 30, 32, etc. But the label indicating the equal length of various manufacturers vary in shape and length. For example- For most of the manufacturers, size Medium was found to be 12-14 except for Zara where it is a size 10 and H&M where it’s miles a size 14-16.
Solution
People commonly are available all one-of-a-kind shapes and also find themselves in sizes in among the ones of the standard. The differences among a character’s posture, how plenty of a muscle-bound individual they’re and the unwanted flesh they have.
There are 3 ways to resolve this; locate the right fashion designer with the proper garments to suit you, locate a person to do alterations on garments which can be barely looser becoming or change your body form through exercise. The photographs under illustrate how well-becoming outfits can remodel your image.
Figure 4 (source)
Keywords: Clothes, Dart, Fitting, Seam Grainline, Merchandise, Outfit, Sizing
Image Courtesy:
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