Emphasis on interrelationship of fabric, fiber, design and construction techniques. This course is required of all Fashion Design and Merchandising majors. This is an introductory course in fashion buying to acquaint the students with the life of a buyer that includes considerations and practices of an executive or middle manager. The buyer's position includes responsibilities such as making evaluations and maintaining standards that are complete and constant. This course is a study of the basic pattern drafting techniques of the apparel industry and the transfer of a design to a flat pattern.
Students learn to design and make their own patterns.
This course will give students skill in drawing fashion figures and deals with contemporary idealized proportions used for fashion today for both fashion design and fashion merchandising. Students will develop individual style in their presentation, and learn to use their drawing as a means of communicating their ideas and designs. This course provides the student with advanced techniques used to illustrate fashion and is for students of fashion design or fashion merchandising. Techniques are taught that are used for quick and realistic sketching and rendering with water color to illustrate various designs and textures. This course explores traditional and contemporary tailoring techniques as applied to the design and construction of men's and women's coats, suits, jackets and other tailored garments.