Following the grade chart in Jack Handford’s Professional Pattern Grading. A size 10 top is graded down to 7 and up to 14. The sleeve lengths are off in the smaller sizes; however this assumes the avatar sizing corresponds to the original size chart and also the accuracy of the base size ten, which was drafted from Helen Joseph-Armstrong’s Patternmaking for Fashion Design and the size chart provided there. Darts are not graded so they hit differently on each size.Pattern movement translated into coordinate grade rule. Front and back are identical. Sleeve is graded symmetrically.
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