Fundamentals of Fashion - Exam 3

Standards

General guidelines established by companies to reflect the overall quality level of their products.

Specifications

How to specifically meet the company’s standards for a particular style of garment.

Quality Control

Continually testing at different phases of production. If a product does not meet quality standard, action must be taken to correct any problems affecting product appearance, performance, and safety.

Stitch Tension

Refers to how loosely or how tautly the threads are held by the sewing maching as it sews.

Bites

Stitch width in zigzag, overedge, and cover stitches.

Safety Stitches

Combine a row of overedge stitches with a tow of straight lockstitches or chainstitches.

Seam

The joints resulting when two or more fabric pieces are sewn together.

Seam Line

The stitched line of a seam. Usually parallel to, and always a specified distance from, the raw edge of the fabric.

Seam Allowance

The narrow width of fabric between the seam line and the cut edge of the fabric.

Stitch Length

How long each stitch in a seam is.

SPI (stitches per inch)

How is stitch length measured?

Single-Thread Chain Stitches

100

Hand Stitches

200

Lock Stitches

300

Multithread Chain Stitches

400

Overedge Stitches

500

Coverstitches

600

SS: Superimposed Seams

• Created by stacking fabric on top of one another with edges even and sewing them together near the edge.

SS

LS: Lapped Seams

• Created by overlapping the seam allowances of two or more fabric plies and sewing them together, with the fabric plies extending in opposite directions

LS

BS: Bound Seams

• Created by using fabric binding strips to encase raw edges

BS

FS: Flat Seams

• Created by joining fabric plies whose raw edges are abutted or just slightly overlapped and joined together with stitching that covers the joint

FS

EF: Edge Finishing

• A series of stitches that finish an edge without arraching a separate piece of fabric.

EF

OS: Ornamental Stitching

• Stitchings applied for decorative purposes, including topstitching and other stitchins that have little or no functional purpose.

OS

French seams: (SS)

Plain seams: (SS)

Enclosed seams: (SS)

Stripped seams: (SS)

Strapped seams: (SS)

Taped seams: (SS)

Rolled hems: (EF)

Flat-felled seams: (LS)

Mock flat-felled seams: (LS)

Bound seams: (BS)

Single-fold hems: (EFa)

Double-fold hems: (EFb)

Flat seams: (FS)