UNIT-1: HISTORY OF FASHION
Introduction to history of fashion, sources of information
Factors affecting clothing - protection, ritualistic, identification, adornment
Origin and development of costume -Draped costume (Indian, Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Egyptian, Greek and Roman)
Industrial Revolution - mechanical inventions, influence on India
Evolution of $20^{\text {th }}$ century Indian fashion.
Films and fashion
UNIT - 2: BASIC PATTERN DEVELOPMENT
Pattern Making
Terminology, symbols and abbreviations
Methods of measuring body and dress form
sizes and measurements
Tools of pattern making
Fit- Element of fits, evaluating fits, need to fit and methods of fit
Pattern development- Basic Bodice: How to develop a bodice from the standard measurement chart and test fitted on the dress form.
Sleeveless bodice
Neckline and its variations
Dart manipulation
How to develop basic skirt block with one dart or two darts and A- line
Collar- Principles of collar development :flat collar, roll collar and stand collar, terminology for collars
UNIT - 3: ELEMENTS OF FASHION
Understanding Fashion - definition and overview
Haute couture, High Fashion, Ready to Wear, Mass produced garments
Fashion Capitals
Menswear - Introduction, Categories, Elements of Design, shirts, pants and shorts, suits
Women’s wear
Introduction to Indian women’s wear, Elements of design, categories of
Women’s wear-dresses, blouses/skirts, trousers, kameezs, saris & blouses.
Children wear - Introduction, garments for different ages - New born, Infants Toddlers, Preteens and Teens, dungarees
Trims used for the fashion apparel
UNIT - 4: BASICS OF GARMENT MAKING
Understanding fabric types.
selection of underlining, interfacing, lining and inter-lining
Cutting preliminaries, fabric preparation, fabric cutting, grain line, preshrinking, identifying the right side of fabric, pinning and marking methods
Types of plackets- continuous, simple shirt placket and shirt placket with facing.
Neckline facing, bias strip and preparation of bias strip.
