A garment for the upper body with a collar and sleeves and buttons down the front : shirts designed through patternmaking : an essay presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Design at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand

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A garment for the upper body with a collar and sleeves and buttons down the front : shirts designed through patternmaking : an essay presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Design at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand

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While garment design traditionally starts with a sketch it can also occur through the process of making a garment’s pattern. I am designing men’s shirts by manipulating a basic size medium men’s shirt pattern. Though this design is framed by several factors, I have adopted the criterion that the shirts created using these patterns will not create any fabric waste, often referred to as “zero-waste pattern design”. Examples of shirts that meet similar criteria exist from the early 1800’s. Often...

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Thesis

Thesis level

Masters

Date created

2010

Creator

Lumsden, Julia

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https://hdl.handle.net/10179/2405

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Shirt design / Men's shirts / Fabric waste / Pattern design

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