Apparel Analysis 100 Concepts

By Hasan Zaman Mohd. Reza-E-Rabbi -
I hope the 100 full-color, professionally shot description will enhance your studying of apparel design, production and evaluation concepts.  You will probably find many creative uses for these descriptions that will help you evaluate ready-to-wear components and quality. 

Complete List of 100 Descriptions

  • labels
  • result of thread shrinkage
  • shading within garment
  • fading from light at shoulders
  • fading and shrinkage/before and after laundering
  • pilling/zipper hump
  • garment twisting after laundering
  • garments cut in opposite directions from napped fabric
  • 300-class lockstitch
  • 400-class chainstitch
  • bottom cover stitch/faded label
  • 500-class overedge stitch
  • safety and mock safety stitches
  • 600-class cover stitch/flat seam
  • unbalanced stitch tension
  • seam pucker/seam crack
  • seam slippage/seam grin
  • wide versus narrow hem and seam allowances
  • control stitching/hanger strap
  • enclosed seam that needs pressing and control stitching
  • French seam/mock French seam
  • welt seam/slot seam (tuck variation)
  • flat-felled seam/mock flat-felled seam
  • smooth versus narrow and puckered flat-felled seams
  • bound seam
  • mitered binding
  • single-needle tailoring/pocket reinforcement stitching
  • stayed seams
  • order of hem and facing construction
  • blindstitched hems
  • smooth versus roped shirttail hems
  • rolled hems
  • clean finish/booked seam
  • overedging
  • shell edge hem/scalloped edge hem/lettuce edge hem
  • pinking/raw, unfinished edge
  • too-narrow facing
  • bias facing/shaped facing/enclosed seam
  • Hong Kong finish/swing tack
  • bands applied "in the round" and flat
  • mitered band
  • true band/mock band
  • horizontal plackets with and without pleat
  • faced placket/in-seam placket
  • continuous bound plackets with and without tack
  • tailored plackets with and without gauntlet button/
  • two buttons per buttonhole on cuff
  • gusset in sleeve
  • ease/slight gathers/full gathers
  • types of elastic
  • applied elastic at edges
  • elastic attached within the body of garment
  • elastic casings at edges
  • full-fashioned marks
  • garments with and without interfacing
  • blistered fusible interfacing/strike through
  • pad stitching/taped roll line/shoulder pad/chest piece
  • partially lined jacket/breast pocket in garment & lining
  • underlining
  • boning/horsehair braid
  • removable collar stays
  • curtained waistband/wide seam allowances/French fly
  • collar exposes neckline/box pleat/locker loop
  • bluff-edge collar
  • bias-cut under collar/two-piece bias-cut under collar
  • sleeve set in "in the round"
  • sleeve set in flat
  • French cuff/monogramming
  • flap/flap on single welt pocket/double welt pocket
  • upturned flap pockets/single welt pocket
  • chain weight in hem/round weight at draped neckline
  • lingerie strap keeper
  • types of ribbon
  • types of braid
  • types of lace
  • types of miscellaneous trim
  • bleeding piping
  • deep versus shallow pleats/bar tacks/rivets/belt loops
  • double layer versus single layer ruffles
  • appliqués
  • machine embroidery versus machine embroidered appliqués
  • quilting/trapunto
  • smocking/shirring
  • hemstitching/cutwork/fagoting
  • chevron/unmatched plaid
  • poor use of patterned fabric
  • pieces cut on bias to avoid matching plaid
  • types of buttons
  • garment gaping at bust line
  • eyed button/shank button
  • interfaced collar button/pilling
  • reinforcement button
  • densely stitched versus sparsely stitched buttonholes
  • types of buttonholes
  • buttonhole without interfacing
  • types of miscellaneous closures
  • continuous element zipper/separate element zipper
  • slot zipper/lapped zipper/fly front zipper
  • invisible zipper/exposed zipper
  • types of snaps
  • types of hooks and eyes

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