Princess Seam Fashion Design: Full Flare Dress

Video Transcript

"Here we have a variation of princess seams that is a dress that is a full flared out dress which means that the dress is going to start up at the top being fitted and I have just another rudimentary basic silhouette that I drew and you can have variations of it also and it can be anything that you want to design. I did just a basic and the princess seams here are not going to start at the shoulder seams, they're going to start at the arms like this and they're going to be, they'll serve their purpose in that they are princess seams to bring the garment in and they'll also act as buzz darts to make the top tighter so that it is more fitted over the chest and you'll see here the flared part of it, this skirt in reality in 2-d it is flat and there are lines and those symbolize the folds of the fabric. Otherwise if you stretch it all out it is going to be huge but on this part of the body that's how it is. The princess seams start at the arm pits and then because it does flare out so much and it's going to be an upside down umbrella type skirt you have to have the darts going out and then again allow for the curving to hit."