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What's the Difference Between Fit Ease and Style Ease?
Do you know the difference between fit ease and style ease?
In this video, I explain each of these concepts, and why they're important.
Simply put, fit ease is the amount of ease included in your dress block, which makes the dress wearable (and allows you to breathe!). Without fit ease, the dress would fit like a sausage casing - skin-tight, and difficult to move when wearing.
Fit ease is minimal - just enough to skim the body without restricting movement.
Style ease is pretty much everything else - the fullness you add when you design a dress, skirt, pant - even a sleeve!
Anything beyond minimal ease is style ease. I'll show you the difference between a close-fitting sheath and an easy-fitting shift to illustrate the concept. Tips and Techniques 6 June 2019
Style ease can be anything from loosening up the waist from a sheath to a shift, or as extreme as adding pleats, gathers, or simply slashing and spreading to add volume to a skirt, blouse, sleeve, or pant leg.
Style ease is all about the look of your garment. Beyond being able to move, do you want the garment to skim the body or add volume and shape? The amount of volume depends on what you want in your style or design.
No matter how much fullness you choose to add to a garment, remember to maintain the fit at some point on the body (or else the garment could just fall off!!). Even with a full, flared top, I like to maintain fit at the shoulders. A full skirt must maintain fit at the waist to stay in place.
Here are links to some of the other pages that are related to this video:
How to draft a Sheath Dress (with brief instructions for a shift at the end of the page
Blouse Body Styles (with links to a fitted blouse, an easy-fit "regular" blouse, and a flared top)
More Tips and Techniques Videos
- Why Do I Need a Dress Block? Can't I just re-design a purchased pattern?
- Why Do I Need Darts? They're so UGLY !!
- Using Your Quarter Scale Patterns
- Turning Your Darts into Styling Details
- Slashing and Spreading your Pattern to Add Fullness
- Customizing your Body Form
- Using Basic Pattern Techniques
- What does it mean to "true" your pattern?
- Don't Make MY Mistakes! Do a Proper Muslin Fitting
- The Difference Between Fit Ease and Style Ease
- Flat Pattern vs. draping
- What Are Style Lines?
- Do You Have Trouble Fitting The Bust?
- Where Do You Find Design Inspiration?
- Even the Greatest Style Falls Flat if it's Out of Proportion
- Do You Speak the "Language of Patterns"?
- The Difference Between Sewing Ease and Style or Fit Ease
- Sewing Gifts for Your Friends - or For You!
- How Collars Work
- Patternmaking Tools to Get You Started
- Style vs Fashion - Do You Know the Difference?
- More on How to Use Quarter Scale Patterns
- More on Pattern Manipulations to Move Darts and Add Fullness
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- Style vs Fashion - Do You Know the Difference?
- Patternmaking Tools to Get You Started
- How Collars Work
- Sewing Gifts for Your Friends - or for You!
- The Difference Between Sewing Ease and Style or Fit Ease
- Do You Speak the "Language of Patterns"?
- Even the Greatest Style Falls Flat if it's Out of Proportion
- Where Do You Find Design Inspiration?
- Do You Have Trouble Fitting The Bust?
- What are Style Lines?
- Flat Pattern vs. draping
- The Difference Between Fit Ease and Style Ease
- Don't Make MY Mistakes! Do a Proper Muslin Fitting
- What Does It Mean to "True Your Pattern?"
- Using Basic Pattern Techniques
- Customize your Body Form
- Slashing and Spreading your Pattern to add Fullness
- Turning your Darts into Styling Details
- Using your Quarter Scale Patterns
- Why Do I Need Darts? They're so UGLY!
- Why Do I Need a Dress Block? Can't I just re-design a purchased pattern?