Fashion draping is considered as
one of the oldest methods used since the 18th century.
Currently, it is considered to be an important aspect in the process of
fashion designing. This process consists of positioning and pinning
fabric on a standard size dress form to develop the structure of a
garment design. Many types and sizes of dress forms are designed for
women, men and children to fulfill the requirement by using draping
method. A garment can be draped using a design sketch as a support, or a
fashion designer can play with
different kinds of fabric
and the way it falls to create new designs at the start of the dress
design process. After draping, the toile fabric is take out from the
dress form which was used to create the sewing draped pattern for making
fashionable garment to suit an individual. In U.S.A.
very light weight fabrics are used by
designers, which is called as ‘toile’ , and U.K. designers call
it as ‘muslin’ cloth.
History of Draping
Draping is a most ancient and popular form of clothing. It is found that
many visual arts of the Romans and Indian sculptures, terracottas, cave
paintings, and wood carvings, presenting men and women wore the same
(unstitched) clothes with the help various wrapping and draping styles.
Uttariya, and Antariya are few
prominent clothing items of draped garments from the Vedic period.
Kasaya, another rectangular piece of the Buddhist robe,
is a real example of the draped garment from ancient period. Further
evolved forms of draped garments are Sari, Odhni, etc .
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