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How much will it cost to hire tailors?

admin — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 05:32:06 +0000

Remember the designer who must make 100 jackets? Well, her materials have arrived. Now the jackets can be sewn. Most designers don’t do this work themselves. They hire tailors to help them. A tailor is a person who makes or repairs clothing.

How much will it cost to hire tailors? The designer uses math to find out. Jackets by the Hour The store owner wants all 100 jackets to be completed in
one week. How many people must the designer hire to make them? The designer knows it takes 4 hours to sew one jacket. A regular workday is 8 hours long. So one person can sew 2 jackets per day. There are 5 days in the workweek. So she multiplies the number of days by the number of jackets a person can make in one day.

Designer is Making a Long Sleeved Shirt for a Man

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:39:58 +0000

A designer is ready to make her prototype. So she takes out her measuring tape. A measuring tape is used to measure length. It is a type of ruler. Most rulers are stiff, but a measuring tape is flexible. It can be useful for measuring things that are not flat.Designers measure a lot. They measure fabric. They measure people. In fact, of all the math skills that designers use, they probably use measurement the most.

How They Measure
Suppose a designer is making a prototype of a skirt. The skirt will be 33 inches long from top to bottom. The designer decides she needs a piece of fabric 36 inches long. This gives her 1 extra inch of fabric to make the hem at the bottom and 2 extra inches to make the waistband.The waistband is a piece of fabric that goes around the waist.

The designer places the end of her tape measure at the edge of her fabric. She runs the tape down the fabric. Then she finds the number 36 on the tape. She draws a line on the fabric at 36 inches. This marks where the fabric will be cut.Designers also measure people. Suppose a designer is making a long-sleeved shirt for a man. She needs to know how long the sleeves should be. So she holds the end of the measuring tape on the top of the man’s shoulder. She runs the tape down his arm. Then she stops at his wrist. She reads the number on the tape. It is 22. The man’s arm, from shoulder to wrist, is 22 inches long. So the sleeve must be 22 inches long, too.

A fashion Designer Has Her Idea for a Design

admin — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:23:17 +0000

A fashion designer has her idea for a design. She has made her sketch. Now, she must choose her fabric the cloth from which the clothing will be made. There are different kinds of materials that can be used to make fabric. For example, fabric can be made from cotton, silk, or wool. Fabric made from each material will have its own look and feel. The designer must choose which one to use. The designer also chooses what color the fabric will be and whether it will have a pattern. Many designers use fabrics that have a type of pattern called a tessellation. Tessellations are fun to look at. They make clothes look interesting.

A tessellation is a pattern made from figures that are all congruent. The figures in a tessellation repeat. All of the figures fit together like a puzzle. There are no gaps between the figures. The figures do not overlap. Many mosaics are examples of tessellations because they are made up of tiles that are all the same size and all the same shape.

Designers also use flips to make tessellations. In these patterns, the figure is flipped over again and again. The picture above is an example of a flip tessellation.

Many Designers Give Dresses Line Symmetry

admin — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:49:48 +0000

Many times, when a designer gets an idea for a piece of clothing, he makes a ketch to show what he thinks his new creation should look like. A sketch is a simple drawing. Often, it is not very detailed. The sketch shows the basic idea of how something should look. A sketch can be drawn by hand. It can also be made on a computer. When designers sketch their clothing ideas, they often use geometry. They draw basic shapes. They draw different kinds of lines. They draw angles.

Clothing and Geometry Sketches may use circles or triangles. Some may use rectangles. For example, a designer may sketch a boy’s jacket. He may use two rectangles to stand in for the sleeves and one for the main body of the jacket. There may be a hood shaped like a triangle. The designer can also use geometry in the design of the jacket. Maybe it will have square pockets on the front.

Fashion designers often create clothes that have line symmetry. That’s because many people think that clothes with line symmetry look good. Many designers give dresses line symmetry. Suppose you drew a line down the center of a dress with line symmetry. The left side of the dress would look like the right side of the dress flipped over.