Princess Seam Fashion Design for Flared Dresses

Series Summary

Why design fashion for models? According to J.P. Prewitt, famous hand model of Bulova fame, models are genetically constructed to become something great: “They’re in peak physical condition. They can gain entry to the most secure places in the world. And most important of all, models don’t think for themselves. They do as their told.” It seems only natural for mothers to want their girls designing fashion and accessories for these legendary lookers. Because of the popularity of shows like Project Runway, fashion design has become a potential career readily consumed by our tweenagers and teenie-boppers. In this free fashion illustration video series, pro fashion designer Laurel Armstrong teaches you how to design fashion with princess seams. Laurel gives you tips on incorporating princess seams into mini dresses and various flared designs. You will get advice on adding new styles to old fashions and how to design a garment around princess seams. Laurel communicates how to start a design and what considerations must be made for princess seam dresses. It is all here.

Video Transcript

"The first variation of the princess seam that I'm going to show you how to draw, it's called the flare. And the flared princess seam variation is one that normally you'll have a princess seam on, typically we see them on a jacket. All of these that I'm going to show you how to draw are based more on a full-length, not full-length, but on an actual garment that, one garment you would wear like a dress. Flared means that your garment is going to go out at the bottom. It's going to flare out so naturally, if you're going to have one princess seam on each side, it's going to have to be very long and you're going to have to have the measurements correctly when you do, when we figure out the measurements, you're going to have to them correctly to where they angle and hit the same side of each based on the length. If it's spread out flat, you'll see pleats right there and pleats right there. The garment's spread out flat. It's going to have to be say so many inches in from each point so that it's not thrown off and they start at the bust, at the armpits and it's going to curve all the way down to the end of your garment. And then of course your garment goes in around that."