Jill Wolcott (@jillwolcottknits): "Yes, yes, yes. The upper body is the scaffold. The bust measurement is perhaps the least reliable because it is so much soft tissue (for females). Hips, under bust, upper bust, shoulder width, across chest, across back, are all closer to skeletal measurements and are much mor…"

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Yes, yes, yes. The upper body is the scaffold. The bust measurement is perhaps the least reliable because it is so much soft tissue (for females). Hips, under bust, upper bust, shoulder width, across chest, across back, are all closer to skeletal measurements and are much more reliable.

Kehinde Oni

Right?? That part really made me pause too.

It’s kind of wild when you think about it, we’re treating this like a new discovery, but it’s actually something tailors were already doing. They were essentially working top-down from a stable point, which is exactly what TDCO is about.

Starting from the chest/upper bust and then shaping over th…

kehindeoni.substack.com/p/pattern-making-bust-c…

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