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.
