Posts Tagged ‘jacket’

A Designer Created a Jacket

Saturday, March 27th, 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.

Materials and Multiplication 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.

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.