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Hi everyone!

I would like to introduce myself and tell you about the apparel services I offer.

My name is Elizabeth and I do flats, specs, line sheets, fabric cards etc, as well as samples and patterns for the womenswear sportswear market. In addition to technical illustration, I also do artistic illustration. I work both free hand and in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.

I have a studio, complete with industrial sewing machines and equipment. I'm located in the US, on the border of NJ and NY and I

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A simple thing like changing a dress form can save a lot of money. We changed our form to the Alvanon form recently. They’d been working with old Wolf forms. The problem with old Wolf forms is they are just not made like a human, and when you start to use those forms as a base, your garments are bigger and too boxy to reflect how people are. The Alvanon form looks more like a human in so many ways. The thigh looks like a thigh, the ankle looks like an ankle. You can see a muscle’s shape and when
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A Shoulder Slope To Cry On

Last week I had lunch with a former co-worker who is also a designer. Obviously the conversation touched on the industry and we got into a conversation about how easy it is to forget the fundamentals like draping and filling out a spec sheet. Funny thing, we both forgot how to measure shoulder slope. We knew the term, but couldn’t remember how to take the measurement. After talking about it and sketching it out on a napkin we figured it out. So just in case you too forgot, I re-sketched it for y
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CUSTOMIZED PATTERN DESIGN FULL PACKAGE SERVICES TEL: 323-839-1720
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One of the benefits of hiring a Full package pattern design studio is the ability of creating several jobs in one place. Turn around time for most jobs is faster if done all at one time and pricewise, it will cost less money to manufacture a garment in a design studio house by paying a flat rate for the whole process versus paying regular prize for each individual job you make at different locations not me
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