If you can't find the right starting point, make your own rough draft. Every pattern is going to need fitting and fixing, which means any start is a great place to get going. Today I'll be showing you how I would go about draping a bodice block on your own self with no one but cats for company.
Patternmaking for Fashion Design: https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/isbn/9780136069348/
Practical Dress Design: https://archive.org/details/practicaldressde0000mabe/page/n3/mode/2up
Modern Pattern Design: https://dn790000.ca.archive.org/0/items/patternmaking/patternmaking.pdf
Dress Design Draping and Flat Patternmaking: https://www.scribd.com/doc/177374753/Dress-Design-Draping
Making a button down shirt with the bodice block pattern: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gX--kYVWLg&t=439s
Music and Sound Effects from Epidemic Sound.
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Need to make a block pattern? There are many options, and I talk about several in this playlist! : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weIdvU0g4tk&list=PLxmC6PRxKKf_2gZzEIthYikg-u-Vr6pbT
Where I get my pattern drafting paper: https://atlaslevy.3dcartstores.com/Paper_c_13.html (not sponsored)
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