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PatternMarch 20266 min read

The Geometry of a Garment

A pattern is an argument about the body, made in paper before it is made in cloth. Every dart is a decision about where flatness must give way to curve, and every seam line is a compromise between the geometry of a plane and the geometry of a person.

In the pattern room, we draft first in two dimensions precisely because the body is not two-dimensional — the discipline of the flat pattern forces every curve to be accounted for before a single cut is made.

This is the quiet mathematics beneath every garment we release: not decoration, but proof.