UNIT-1: HISTORY OF FASHION

• Introduction to history of fashion, sources of information
• Factors affecting clothing - protection, ritualistic, identification, adornment
• Origin and development of costume -Draped costume (Indian, Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Egyptian, Greek and Roman)
• Industrial Revolution - mechanical inventions, influence on India
• Evolution of $20^{\text {th }}$ century Indian fashion.
• Films and fashion

UNIT - 2: BASIC PATTERN DEVELOPMENT

• Pattern Making
• Terminology, symbols and abbreviations
• Methods of measuring body and dress form
• sizes and measurements
• Tools of pattern making
• Fit - Element of fits, evaluating fits, need to fit and methods of fit
• Pattern development - Basic Bodice: How to develop a bodice from the standard measurement chart and test fitted on the dress form.
• Sleeveless bodice
• Neckline and its variations
• Dart manipulation
• How to develop basic skirt block with one dart or two darts and A - line
• Collar - Principles of collar development :flat collar, roll collar and stand collar, terminology for collars

UNIT - 3: ELEMENTS OF FASHION

• Understanding Fashion - definition and overview
• Haute couture, High Fashion, Ready to Wear, Mass produced garments
• Fashion Capitals
• Menswear - Introduction, Categories, Elements of Design, shirts, pants and shorts, suits
• Women’s wear
• Introduction to Indian women’s wear, Elements of design, categories of
• Women’s wear-dresses, blouses/skirts, trousers, kameezs, saris & blouses.
• Children wear - Introduction, garments for different ages - New born, Infants Toddlers, Preteens and Teens, dungarees
• Trims used for the fashion apparel

UNIT - 4: BASICS OF GARMENT MAKING

• Understanding fabric types.
• selection of underlining, interfacing, lining and inter-lining
• Cutting preliminaries, fabric preparation, fabric cutting, grain line, preshrinking, identifying the right side of fabric, pinning and marking methods
• Types of plackets - continuous, simple shirt placket and shirt placket with facing.
• Neckline facing, bias strip and preparation of bias strip.