Prática de Shadowing: Sloper VS Pattern Blocks For Fashion Design! - Aprenda a falar inglês com vídeo

Hi Susan here.

Okay let's talk about it.

What is a sloper?

What is a block?

What is a pattern block?

Are they all the same?

Hmm let's find out.

That's what's next.

all right so let's talk about it this question has come up

so often that it is almost like

that pin in the side of my ribs right

so I thought I should talk about it

and um clarify some things about it okay I think

that the reason why people are struggling with this is not only

because of the terminology

which is in essential for fashion designers I want you to understand this terminology

but also because you have students versus the industry

and that's where the struggle comes into play all right so

if you are a student and most likely most of you are students

if you're watching my channel

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so you don't miss anything all right let's get to the subject all right

so I actually read an article reviewing this very briefly

that from a person who comes from the same air as I am

but is actually angrier about the subject than I am

so it is not I can't say it it's a term

that we're going to dis that's going to disappear

because it's still relevant

and that's the word sloper what is a sloper okay a

sloper is a basic shell of the body of of the dress form of your your size

that you're going to be working with in your company whether it is your main size

or yourself without seam allowance i sell my five piece sloper set

on the on my website it is the basic size eight

which converts to a size four six garment and it It is the essential five pieces,

the front bodice, the back bodice,

the back skirt, the front skirt, and the basic sleeve.

Those five essential pieces with a tiny bit of ease.

No design at all.

Nothing interesting about it, just the shell of a bodice and a basic skirt with a sleeve.

Without seam allowance is defined as a sloper guys.

As soon as you take these five pieces and you add seam allowance to it,

it becomes a pattern.

I'll say it again as soon as you add seam allowance to this block it then becomes a pattern

so then you hear the word sloper

and block as far as I'm concerned they are the same thing

but if you say pattern block pattern means seam allowance it means it could be either the basic shapes

or it could be a design from your company.

Let me elaborate further.

Let's go further into it.

Let me show you that on the flat.

Okay just to reiterate this is your basic sloper five-piece sloper set which is the front bodice,

the back bodice, front skirt,

back skirt and basic sleeve without seam allowance right.

This is what fashion design students and startup companies use to make initial designs

and do some practicing on dart manipulation and all of

that once you take these five pieces

and you add seam allowance to it it then becomes this is the same thing it's been traced over

and seam allowance has been added to this it becomes a pattern either a sloper pattern or a block pattern.

It is still just the basic elements of the body.

It is, there's no design elements in this.

There's no different extra ease on this.

This is just your basic body,

as if you had your dress form or your mannequin in a flat form if that makes sense.

This is also considered a sloper.

This is the torso sloper that I also sell on my website

which is using the front bodice and the skirt

and combining it to make what would be called a torso sloper

which is used for dresses and blouses and jackets and dress

and things like that and I also have my special sleeve

that you can purchase this set on my website okay let's

talk about what a pattern block is designers have patterns they either are in oak tag like this

or they're in pattern making paper this is the way I'm storing my designs these days

and I also have certain designs after a company has become established

and you have some patterns or designs

that are you know are a really good fit they sold

well people love them you tend to want to use those as blocks

so to speak to make other designs because you know that

that body the essential body is good if

that makes sense just to give you an idea this is

one of my knit dresses that's super super popular it was one of my best shapes in dresses for knit

and this was one of my best shape in woven

so I would tend to use this on occasion I'm going to open this pattern up a little bit here

and you can and I'm going to take one of these pieces out

and this is just one of the pattern pieces this is actually the front part of this dress right

and this has seam allowance so you can still make new designs with a pattern that has seam allowance.

In fact, that's how you're going to see it in the industry.

Very rarely you want to see just a sloper without seam allowance.

So what happens is sometimes something

that is a really good pattern such as this where I'm going to probably use it a lot to make different designs,

I will then trace it over in this OTAG hard cardboard pattern paper.

And what's interesting is I won't add the actual design elements like that.

I'm just going to keep it plain because I want to use this body as a pattern block.

It is now a design.

It has essential ease for the actual design and it has some style lines to it.

It does have seam allowance and it's something

that I can then put on pattern making paper like I have here just brown paper

and let's say I wanted to do something unusual to it

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and maybe make it wider on on the hem I

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can then use this put it down trace around it

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and make some changes I can even do some flare to it by just moving it like

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that and then I have just changed the design and made it even more of a flared dress.

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And just simple changes like that, or more complicated changes.

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But once you get a pattern that you really,

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really like, or a company really,

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really likes, and you have all the pieces here in a particular size,

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hopefully your sample size, this one has been done in extra small,

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small, medium, and large, so I would probably either use the small or extra small,

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depending upon what I want to use for my base pattern,

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and go ahead and make new designs with this pattern,

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and then have what's called design blocks or pattern blocks.

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I hope that makes sense.

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This is just a quick study,

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and this terminology is really, really important, guys.

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I want you to understand the terminology as a fashion design student.

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You're going to have to know the word sloper.

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You're going to have to know the word block,

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but in the industry, they really don't use it much because

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that is just tools of how to learn to be a fashion designer,

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as well as making very, very basic patterns.

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And when you're starting to work in an industry,

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you're going to have already established patterns and they will be beyond just the basic sloper,

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if that makes sense.

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Okay, I hope you liked this video.

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Give it a thumbs up.

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Please share it with your friends,

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all the people who are struggling with this terminology,

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and I'll see you next time.

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