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Designing Knitwear for Extended Use<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Cut and sew knit garments feature prominently in contemporary, everyday womenswear.\u00a0 Knit fabrics introduce additional considerations in designing garments for extended wear.\u00a0 Knit garments are cut from fabrics that have either one-way or two-way stretch, joined with multi-thread chain stitching that creates flexible seams to stretch with the fabric.\u00a0 Knit garments can be pulled on and off easily, often without the need for openings and fastenings.\u00a0 Because they stretch to fit, knit garments are comfortable and accommodate some fluctuation in body size.\u00a0 These qualities make them popular with designers and wearers alike.\u00a0 Knit garments feature in all categories of fashion, particularly in the \u2018basics\u2019 category of foundation garments or base layers, designed to be worn regularly, in combination with more fashionable garments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An enduring knit garment is likely be one that withstands frequent wear and facilitates repair.\u00a0 Given their forgiving fit, it is likely less that during extended use, knit garments would need to be altered to accommodate changing body size.\u00a0 Design for the future repair of knit garments is hampered by the narrow, densely stitched seams that are time consuming to unpick and difficult to replicate using domestic sewing machinery.\u00a0 Therefore, the traditional tailoring methods investigated through the other garment styles shown on this website, need to be adapted to suit garments that through their very construction, prohibit intervention.\u00a0 This leads to an investigation of modular design.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Modular Design<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In this garment, principles of modularity are applied in two ways.\u00a0 The garment components are designed as modules to be interchanged easily during wear.\u00a0 Interchanging parts requires no sewing skills of the wearer.\u00a0 This approach seeks to support frequent use and to meet more wardrobe needs with fewer garments.\u00a0 To facilitate later disassembly and reassembly as may be required for repair, each module within the garment is designed and constructed to enable intervention using the simplest (de-)construction methods possible.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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