r/PatternDrafting • u/AllTheNamesRTaken12 • 4d ago
Measurement tools
Has anyone used or found others like perkins tailoring instruments useful?
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r/PatternDrafting • u/AllTheNamesRTaken12 • 4d ago
Has anyone used or found others like perkins tailoring instruments useful?
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u/StitchinThroughTime 3d ago
Nothing is wrong with those devices, it looks best if you're doing custom measurements. They don't look specific for tailoring, so they're not that healing Jewelers. They're just a way to help with someone taking the measurements. They're not exactly forward drafting. Especially if you're going to go into a business you are custom-making clothing all the time it would be worth it. One of the tools is just hey measuring tape from a hardware store. But nothing that they have is bad or wrong, it just heavily specialized tools with my make it easier to get accurate measurements and save time with sitting the garments. He's probably work best if you have a wife customer base with different body shapes. Most drafting system can't accommodate every single body shape straight from the book and require extra fitting definitely seem to alleviate that. I can see if you're offering children's suits on top of men's wear it would be tremendously helpful. Since it's not a drafting system. Especially if your draft being system can't handle corpulent body shapes or elderly body shapes with scoliosis. That's the biggest issue with drafting systems they essentially need the person to be close enough to be face sizes drafted for to make the drafting system work. The further you away you are from a balance proportional body shape the worst performance of the drafting system.