Fashion designers create many kinds of clothing. They design pants, shirts, and dresses. They design hats and scarves. They even design purses. Most of the clothes they design are sold in stores.

Fashion designers use a lot of math. They use addition and subtraction to find out if they will make a profit on the clothes they make. The profit on a piece of clothing is the amount of money earned from selling it less all the costs of making it. For example, let’s say a designer makes a dress. She buys the fabric for $50.00.

To make new clothing, fashion designers must first decide how the clothes will look. Most designers want their designs to look good to people. That way, people will buy their clothes. Some designers use their creativity to make their clothes look different from other clothes that are being sold. For example, a designer may create a new type of jeans. The jeans are bright yellow. They are not dark blue like many jeans. Now the designer has created something different. Shoppers who are looking for something different might like the yellow jeans better than blue ones.