![]() Image from our How to Spec a Garment eBook Example: For a Junior size 9 waist spec is taken from 15 ½“ below HPS. Waist: Measured horizontally from edge to edge at a specific distance below HPS, which will vary depending on sample size and company standards. Image from our How to Spec a Garment ebook Image from our How to Spec a Garment eBookĪcross Chest: Usually measured 1” below armhole horizontally from edge to edge. Image from our How to Spec a Garment eBookīody Length: Length of the garment from HPS to the Bottom Sweep. Side Seam (SS): Seams on the left and right sides of a garment from the bottom of the armhole down to the bottom hem. Image from our How to Spec a Garment eBookĬenter Back (CB): An invisible line running vertically down the exact center of the back of a garment. Image from our How to Spec a Garment eBookĬenter Front (CF): Not to be confused with placket edges, the center front is an invisible line running vertically down the exact center of the front of a garment. Many measurements are given in relation to the HPS. HPS: (High Point Shoulder) A main reference point located at the highest point of the shoulder, where the shoulder seam meets the neckline. For a fully detailed guide on specing garments, including full illustrated diagrams, measuring instructions, and extensive points of measure for various garment types, tech pack samples & templates download the “ How to Spec a Garment” ebook. In this article, spec examples are given on the half. Measurements can be taken “on the half”, or total. Here we’ll cover some of the basic POMs (points of measure) used when specing different garments. If you don’t know how to spec, and even if you think you do – you should become very comfortable with the process because chances are, you’ll find yourself specing garments – a lot! In a few of our articles, we’ve mentioned that specs are measurements and details of a garment when lain flat. Miscellaneous Videos from Other Sources.This is the power of the mechanical written word, of type, and this is intertwined with our power to produce gender. The computer with a word processor is already filled with a library of pre loaded fonts (various styles and sizes of type) that allow a word to manifest meaning beyond itself (the internal content) and be dressed in external attire that can range from matching its meaning all the way to contradicting the words’ intent. This once mysterious process of manipulating the look of type has been democratized and can be enjoyed by anyone who has access to a computer. After the Industrial Revolution there was a typographical shift of who controlled the way words look from the elite realm toward the majority. Those anointed with this design task experienced a level of control over their choices of how the written word looked that neither script writer nor calligrapher could ever reach. Throughout the history of typography (the art of arranging type) the ability to choose the characteristics of type remained in the realm of the esoteric few, mainly white males. This project will focus on the mechanical written word, also known as type within the context of the English language in Western civilization through mediums like print and screen, and how our gendered perspectives will forever influence those words. Words reside in two all encompassing worlds: oral and written. Words are the symbols we use to create meaning for our actions, ideas, and thoughts.
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