DEMO — fictional range. Local brief only, NOT SENT. No personal data is collected or transmitted.
FIT
A fit record is a set of steps, not a single size.
A size run is delivered by grading, and the grading steps are what make one size a size. What is specified is the step and the tolerance, not the label.
- Chest step
- And the tolerance it is held to per garment
- Shoulder step
- Which grades on a different step from the chest
- Sleeve step
- Length and bicep, again on their own step
- Body length step
- Because a run that keeps length unwearable at the ends
- Balance
- Front against back, which a single measurement hides
- Screening
- Which sizes are measured and how many garments of each
Illustrative fit record
| Property | Set by | What changes it |
|---|---|---|
| Chest | The grading step and its tolerance | A revision to the body block |
| Shoulder | Its own step | A change to the armhole or the sleeve |
| Sleeve | Its own step | Cap ease revised |
| Balance | How the panels are cut and hung | Skew in the marker |
Why the shoulder is a separate column.
Because it does not grade on the chest step. A run where the shoulder follows the chest is a run whose shoulders are wrong at both ends, and the error is only visible once the ends are screened.
The question worth asking instead.
Which sizes the run is screened at. A supplier who screens only the middle has described a tolerance nobody at the ends will meet.