What women want...

It is not a secret that what women want is beautiful and comfortable cloth. The most easy way to solve this problem is to go to the fashion shop and buy the dress you like. But, in practice, it occurs to be rather difficult: somebody can not find the required size, somebody does not want to pay extra money, somebody wants to buy "an especial thing". For these troubles, or due to wide circle of those who are fond of cutting and sewing, many Russian women like sewing. But, unfortunately, there is the annoying lack of resources of good and not too expensive patterns. For several years our company has been developing not only software for apparel manufactures, but also patterns for sew-lovers.

Many of them know our CD with ready patterns, "Fashion pattern magazine". We have been issuing the "magazine" since 1996. First "magazines" worked under DOS and were issued at 5-inch floppy discs. One issue contained 5-10 models, made, as a rule, on the base of Central Apparel Labarotory, the patterns were to be printer by matrix or laser printers. We issued 10 discs. That time we were just approved attractive idea of creating slopers and patterns of every size via computer.

In 1998 we issued the first CD, which worked under WINDOWS 95. Now our user could use any printer. The CD contained redesigned 60 models which were collected from previous issues. It was disc N4. 3 months later, we were surprised to find about 20 000 pirate copies of our disc. Our program was becoming popular...

There were different opinions of our user, good and bad - we were the first and single to issue such a product. We are still the only company to produce computerized slopers and patterns for wide range of users, both in Russia and abroad. In every new disc we improve our designs and methods, taking into account our customers' wishes.

The 6 disc was the first one where we totally refused the Unified method and became use our own methods. In CD N11 we use alternative coefficients in methods of pattern making, that gave us possibility to widen the size/height range. In CD 14 we use new schemes of seam equalizing; many new methods include cycle chaining.

We would like to give more attention to cyclic chaining, because this is a principally new approach to construction method. Using cyclic chaining, the user does not write the concrete formula of segment calculation, but he/she writes conditions of what he/she is going to get, and the computer itself choose allowances and coefficients to fulfil these conditions. Cycling chaining allows the modeler to focus at contents/subject of the construction instead of inventing formulas of allowances calculating, with further checking them for all sizes. Cycling chaining can be easily added to any method, to expand its resources and make it more "clever". In the near future, we suppose, cycling chaining will be essential part of computer designing of apparel.

The base of "Fashion pattern magazine" - LEKO (system of pattern making) - is constantly improving, so that allow to come to true any modeler's idea. In the near future the model in "Fashion pattern magazine" will be shown at 3D mannequin (from different sides). Several models will be constructed as a layout of 3D surfaces.

The especial advantage of "Fashion pattern magazine" is its unlimited use. This means that you can print or plot so many patterns of any size that you want, without any damage of disc: it will not tear or crumple, as a paper magazine. Of course, you know at least a dozen friends and relatives, who are fond of sewing, too, and maybe somebody of them has a computer and a printer. You even may use your office printer. We hope that your chef will not be indignant if you, at your lunch break, print several patterns - for you and your colleagues: it makes good any firm when its employees are pretty clothed. And if you chef would present his women-employees - for New Year, for example - an issue of "Fashion pattern magazine" (instead of boring pinks), he surely gain the reputation of delicate connoisseur of women's wishes...

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