Fashion Design for Princess Seams with Bust Darts

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Summary: Start a bust dart on the princess seam when designing fashion to keep the fabric from buckling during manufacture. Learn to draw princess seams with bust darts for fashion designs from a pro designer in this free fashion illustration video.

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Laurel Armstrong Laurel Armstrong is in graduate school for fashion design and is knowledgeable about everything fashion: design, sketching, pattern drafting, draping, sewing ... read more

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Fashion Design for Princess Seams with Bust Darts

And our last variation on darts are the princess seams with bust darts. Bust darts. I said that too fast. Princess seams with bust darts. As I explained earlier, a princess seam normally goes like that. Princess seams with bust darts are going to start at the arm pit and then they are going to curve in. And they are going to curve in a lot closer to each other. Because you have the bust darts here, the bust darts are typically going to start at the sides like that. But if you have a Princess seam, that means that you have 1, 2, 3 pieces of fabric that you're seaming together. And when you sew them together, if you started it at the side, it would end up throwing off the curve of the Princess seam. Because when you sew it together, the, it's not going to be the same, follow the same silhouette of the body, the natural curves of the body. So you start the dart on the actual Princess seam. And it is about, it'll end at the same point as the bust dart ends, which would be at the middle of the bust but it starts at the actual curve part. So, oops, our picture, curve it in, bust dart, bust dart.