dart

This article shows how darts can be manipulated or removed with the help of panel seams.

This blazer jacket with decoratively laid darts, which radiate towards the centre front, can be made with a firm cotton fabric to a business jacket or with noble material to an evening jacket.

Particularly in the 50s, very body-focused feminine dresses were created that showed ingenuity and originality of vintage fashion in every detail. Dresses of the 50s are wonderfully feminine. The cut-out forms of this article are from these years.

Usually press all seam allowances of darts, pleats and split seams towards the middle of the respective piece. Topstitch the pleats 0.2 cm away from the sewing line (figure 5)

On the subject of “Pinching”, we introduce more variations (see also DR10/2009) for dart manipulation. We show designs with crosswise seams, slanting seams, asymmetric seams and reduced darts. Those who master the technique of “Pinching” can …