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Designer is Having a Show

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

Fashion designers sometimes provide refreshments at their fashion shows. They use their math skills to make sure that they purchase the right amounts.Suppose a designer is having a show, and 200 people will attend. He will serve bottled water and apples. Then he asks himself, “How much should I buy?” He can use multiplication and division to find out.

A designer created a jacket. It was modeled at a fashion show. A store owner loved the look of the jacket and ordered 100 jackets for her store. Now the designer must get the jackets made.Her math skills will help her do this.First, the designer must purchase the materials she needs. She must buy denim fabric for the outside of the jacket.She needs nylon fabric for the jacket’s lining. She needs buttons, and she needs thread.

But how much of each kind of fabric should she buy? How much thread? How many buttons? The designer uses multiplication to find out. Here’s how she does it.

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Fashion Designers have Shows to Display Their New Designs

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

The prototypes are completed.They look terrific. Now it’s time for the fashion show! Maybe you have seen parts of a fashion show on television. At these shows, models walk down a runway. A runway is a long,narrow platform that extends out into the audience. The models wear new clothing designs. The people in the audience sit in chairs and watch. They look at the interesting new clothes.

Fashion designers have shows to display their new designs. People who own clothing stores often go to the shows. They decide which of the designs to buy.They will sell clothing made according to these designs in their stores.

Runway Math
Planning fashion shows requires math skills. Sometimes a fashion show can be only a certain number of hours or minutes long.Designers must determine how many of their designs they can display at the show in that time. Sometimes designers know they want to display a certain number of designs. How long should the show be to allow all the designs to be seen? Designers can use division or multiplication to figure out things  like these.

Suppose a fashion show will be 30 minutes long. Each model will walk on the runway for 2 minutes. She will walk to the front of the runway, stop so that people can look closely at what she is wearing, and walk back again. Then, another model will come out.

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A Prototype is a Sample of a Design

Friday, February 26th, 2010

You know that designers think of an idea, make a sketch, and choose their fabric. Next, they make a prototype. A prototype is a sample of a design.It looks like the sketch, but it is made of fabric. This helps the designer see what the piece of clothing might really look like when it is completed. The designer may use the prototype to work on his design some more.

By the Yard

Designers use math to make prototypes.The first thing they do is to determine how much fabric they’ll need to buy. Fabric is often sold by the yard. This means that, often, you must buy a piece of fabric that is some whole number of yards long.

If you buy 1 yard of fabric, for example, you are buying a piece that is 1 yard long. Since there are 3 feet in 1 yard, you can also say that 1 yard of fabric is 3 feet long. Most pieces of fabric are 4 feet wide. So a piece of fabric 3 feet (1 yard) long has 12 square feet of fabric in it. You can figure this out by multiplying the length by the width,to find a square measurement, like this:

3 feet x 4 feet = 12 square feet

Suppose a designer is making a prototype of a coat. He estimates that he’ll need about 30 square feet of fabric in order to make the prototype. How many yards of fabric should he buy? The designer knows that 1 yard of fabric has 12 square feet. Two yards will have 24 square feet. That will not be enough. Three yards will have 36 square feet (12 + 12 + 12 = 36, or 12 x 3 = 36). So the designer buys 3 yards. He will have 6 square feet left over.

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Many Designers Give Dresses Line Symmetry

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

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.

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