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Summary: A fashion designer can add a flounce to a four button cuff to strike a new design. Learn how to draw four button flounce cuffs for fashion design from a pro designer in this free fashion illustration video.
Laurel Armstrong is in graduate school for fashion design and is knowledgeable about everything fashion: design, sketching, pattern drafting, draping, sewing construction, etc. Laurel...read more
"The next idea I have for you is kind of specific, you can take it and add, whatever you want to it, but because it's so detailed, I really wasn't thinking I guess about it being a basic concept. You could take this and I'll allow you, use it literally in your drawings and then the rest of the garment, make your own. It's a four button cuff with a flounce. There's really not many other ways of representing that, other than that, so mind that again, but, it's got four buttons. It doesn't have to have four buttons. Let, I just called it that, which is so misleading because that's my drawing is. Okay. This is a cuff that buttons and it has a flounce. Let's do it in another way. Okay. A cuff it's going to have, it's going to be squared, it has triangles, where you draw it dimensionally, right there. Let's say your button cuff is not going to be that long. There's your cuff. And your button cuff is, here's your buttons. And then, that's what makes it a button cuff, the fact that it does button. Then the fact that it's a cuff, and there's a short combing above it. And then the flounce, you can have the flounce be as big as you want. Let's say we have a flounce, Flounce. There's where, this is where you make it your own, is in proportion and in styling. That way you can take a four button flounce and make it something bit of differ."