Let’s Put Art Back in Pattern Engineering
<p>The “<strong>Wall Between Design and Manufacturing” </strong>in my engineering grant award from the National Science Foundation in 1989, illustrates how the fashion apparel industry worked in the second half of the 20th century. Most “fashion designers” connected only with showrooms and marketing to retail stores. And most fashion schools and colleges taught only this side of education. The pattern side was taught by books and drafting of rules — which is <strong>not true of pattern engineers. </strong>Any quality pattern maker learned their trade from apprenticing with others in the industry, and gradually some were called “pattern engineers”. The unfortunate result from the separation is that the pattern and manufacturing side of the industry has produced boring sameness to keep their fashion clothing products profitable, because pattern makers can no longer work with creative ideas from young fashion designers. I have a protégé that makes patterns for some firms with these young designers. She frustratingly says, “They don’t know anything”.</p>
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