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Component designers are one of the more varied components of garment design. Different forms of the same component plus combinations between different components make up the different morphological features of a garment.
Usually, the design of parts of a garment mainly includes collars, sleeves, pockets, lapels, hems and other parts. Among these components, the collar is the most striking part of the garment and plays an important role in the appearance of the garment.
According to the different structural characteristics of the collar, it is mainly divided into five basic types: stand-up collar, hooded collar, collarless, lapel and barge collar, as well as the use of other collar types. Regular down jacket collar types include collarless, hooded collar, garden collar and round collar with detachable hat. Other collar types, such as suit collars and baseball collars, are less commonly used in the design of down jackets.
The design of the sleeves is also an important part of the design, as it takes into account the movement of the upper limbs and the associated effects on the other limbs.
The sleeve design consists of a sleeve hill, a sleeve body and a sleeve cuff. As a special type of garment, the sleeve design changes are mainly in the cuffs, which are conventionally shrunken, straight and built in.
As a necessary part of the garment, the basic function of pockets is to store some items and also to play a decorative role. Depending on the form of the opening, pockets are divided into three main types: slit pockets, scoop pockets and patch pockets.
Considering the need to keep the wearer’s hands warm, the pockets of down jackets are mainly designed as slash pockets and all three types of pockets are used in some way. The lapels are a striking part of the garment, designed to be easy to put on and take off and to complement the rest of the garment to achieve harmony.
In traditional garment modelling, the placket is mainly set in the front or back of the garment, but nowadays some garment plackets are not constrained by their traditional position and are often left open at the shoulders, chest, side seams, upper back and other places to put on and take off. The combination of different parts of the lapels and different structural forms of workmanship adds a great deal of interest to the style of the garment.
The hem refers to the bottom part of the garment, which is less restricted by the structure of the human body and offers a relatively high degree of freedom of movement. The lapels of a down jacket are also designed to keep the cold out and the warmth in, and are mainly closed. In order to minimise the gap between the down jacket and the wearer’s body, conventional down jacket lapels are mainly zipped symmetrical lapels, some of which have an outer lapel cover in addition to the zip, while asymmetrical lapels are less commonly used.
In addition to the above components, there is also a special component in the design of a down jacket, namely the diffusion stitching. Derivative stitching is a widely used processing technique in the production and manufacture of down garments and is an important feature that sets them apart from conventional garments.
In the past, the main function of diffraction stitching was to prevent the accumulation of down in the lining of the garment.
As the design of down garments became more and more diverse, different variations and combinations of diffraction threads were introduced, i.e. by changing the shape, the location, the quantity, the material and colour and the process, to give the garment a different visual effect.
In addition to fixing the filling material, the design of the diffraction stitching also has a certain influence on the overall warmth of the down jacket, mainly when the amount of down filling is analysed in combination, i.e. when the down jacket is filled with more down, the diffraction stitching has less influence on the warmth due to its setting.
When the amount of down in a garment is low, it is often necessary to reduce the number of diffraction stitches and choose a sparser diffraction stitch position in order to obtain better warmth.
In terms of line composition, there are five main types of down jacket: horizontal parallel, vertical parallel, diagonal, curved and folded, and mixed.
The above points are from a professional point of view to analyse the current situation of down jacket design, in contrast, the design of domestic brands of down jackets generally have some problems.
One is that the domestic down jacket brand products have a long cycle of popular trends, the time difference is more obvious. Consumers who wish to keep up with fashion are unable to find down jackets containing the latest design elements from the shop’s seasonal products, thus forming an obvious gradient in the speed of arrival of popular trends and popular elements in the Secret Chengdu.
Secondly, in terms of specific down jacket product design, the R&D concept of independent brand design is relatively weak. Many brands directly copy the design of the market leading brands or hot styles, style copying phenomenon is serious, thus causing down jacket homogenization competition, playing price war and other serious problems.
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Post time: Nov-09-2021