Sure-Fit Designs

Quite a number of years ago I bought the Sure-Fit Designs kits for shirt, blouse/dress and pants. That was the best investment I ever made to build slopers to my body shape! now I need to replace the Stylus and I don't know where to go!!! this company doesn't seem to have a web site. Anybody knows whether or not they still exist??? I see the name off and on, but...

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Quite a number of years ago I bought the Sure-Fit Designs kits for shirt, blouse/dress and pants. That was the best investment I ever made to build slopers to my body shape! now I need to replace the Stylus and I don't know where to go!!! this company doesn't seem to have a web site. Anybody knows whether or not they still exist??? I see the name off and on, but...

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Quite a number of years ago I bought the Sure-Fit Designs kits for shirt, blouse/dress and pants. That was the best investment I ever made to build slopers to my body shape! now I need to replace the Stylus and I don't know where to go!!! this company doesn't seem to have a web site. Anybody knows whether or not they still exist??? I see the name off and on, but...

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I give up...what is a 'sloper?'

-Irene

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Irene you took the words out of my keyborad !!!! mirjam

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of the design options in Pattern Master is a sloper for a dress, pants, skirt, etc.. Beverly

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It's a pattern drafted to be form-fitting with only wearing ease and no design ease. Sort of like one of those weird basic fitting patterns in the back of the pattern books that show a lady wearing muslin with thread traces across bust, waist, and hip, etc.

You take the sloper as the basis of a pattern and from there you add design ease to create the garment you want. If you know what you have added and where, you can take someone else's sloper and recreate the same garment that will fit them the same because it has the same design ease everywhere.

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Thanks so much for the information, and for the link, Beverly.

I never heard of such a thing but boy it makes sense.

I just got a dress form so....it looks like I need to make a slopper. Sounds like a good project for my Labor Day holiday!

-Irene

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Actually, a sloper is the two-dimensional version of a custom-molded dress form and is used as the form to draft a pattern around, much like one would use that custom-molded dress form to create a dress via the draping method.

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Samantha Hill - remove TRASH t

...so the dress form is my sloper? Or am I totally confused now? :P

-Irene

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IMS

ROTFLOL! Would that be for your sow? ;->

I love being retired, EVERY day is a holiday. I go to bed when I want, sleep until I awake, and do what I want, all day long, every day. ;-)

Beverly

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Dear Irene,

Using a sloper for design is the basis for flat patternmaking. Using a dress form for design is draping. If the dress form is your exact double, you'll get great fitting garments. If it's a stock size, the best way to get well fitting designs is to pad out the dress form by putting a snug fitting, stretchy cover on it, and padding it to resemble the real you. Slopers, on the other hand, are already drafted to fit the person. A good patternmaking book will help to show how the sloper is manipulated. It is the basis for every RTW design, from bras and bathing suits to jackets and coats. But of course, RTW is done in stock sizes that fit no one. A custom sloper will fit no one else!!

Teri

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The dress form is not your sloper. With the flat pattern method, you start with your sloper as the foundation, adding design ease until you have the garment you want. (N.B. this usually requires fitting after you construct the first trial of the pattern, because flat drafting methods are not 100% accurate 100% of the time. Tnink of it as doing the same thing as an architect does when they do a 3-D sketch of a house on paper.

With the draping method, you are starting with a three-dimensional base, not a sloper. You arrange the fabric on the three-dimensional form until it looks like the fashion you want. Think of it like when you take a balloon and use it as the base upon which to apply paper mache to make a pinata or something, only the balloon would be the exact size that you want to have empty in the middle.

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ah....that clears things up considerably. Thanks so much for the explanation.

-Irene

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A sloper is a pattern for making patterns. All patterns made from the same sloper will fit the same way, even when the styles are radically different.

It's common to start with a tight-fitting shell with set-in sleeves, but the defining features of a sloper are that it has no seam allowances, and darts extend to the high point -- when making a pattern from a sloper, the last step is to add seam allowances and shorten any remaining darts.

If some feature -- raglan sleeves, for example -- is to figure in more than one pattern, it's a good idea to start by making a sloper that has that feature; then one can design each new pattern without repeating the same steps over and over.

It's a good idea to make a sloper of a heavy paper or light card that is easy to trace around, so that you can draw guidelines on your pattern paper quickly.

Joy Beeson

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