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.
