Tightly fitted garments: we have just the opposite problem, ours are too bulky. Our designer is so concerned that the garment be "useful" ever after for a number of sizes that she puts in overly large seam allowances, gives all the women a gathered skirt, and does a lot of tucks on skirts and sleeves to shorten and lengthen. The good thing is that our students are learning how to alter. The bad thing is that the actors always look sort of rounded and plump with all the extra inside fabric. The trims are just piled on to visually create various style lines.
I feel that the design students are getting short shrifted because they will be passing on this look in their work and to other students. Our designer has been here for a number of years, so that we have a lot of these bulky garments and we use them over and over and over and over.
--Likes a More Streamlined Look
There are positive things to say for a stock of useful-fit-anyone-rep-garments. Your designer has obviously hit upon a plan that she feels works for her in her situation. Do you sew garments outside of your work? If you do, you might want to bring each one in while unfinished to "use the dress form." Leave it there for a few days, and as students look it over, show them this or that on it. They will realize that there are many ways to construct a garment. You won't be undermining how the designer wants things done, but you will be helping the students with more examples.
--Ms Loper
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