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Darts are folds (tucks coming to a point) sewn into fabric to take in ease and provide shape to a garment, especially for a woman's bust. They are used frequently in all sorts of clothing to tailor the garment to the wearer's shape, or to make an innovative shape in the garment. Fabric may be thought of as flat, and a dart has the effect of removing a wedge shaped piece and pulling the edges of that wedge together to create a shallow cone. This effect can be seen quite easily with a paper pattern by pulling together the edges of a dart intake as it would be sewn. Since fabric is generally more flexible than paper, the fabric will shift around the apex of the cone and form a softer, but still curved, shape. In a garment, a dart ends in a point at a full area of the body. A dart in a flat pattern has two important properties: its point, or the point in the pattern at which the dart aims or converges, and the intake, or the amount of fabric taken in or removed. Since the dart can extend t

Dart (sewing) - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Pointed fold used in sewing This article is about the sewing term. For other uses, see Dart (disambiguation) . Suit by Pierre Balmain , 1957, with shaping darts at bust and waist. The reverse side of fabric showing where a dart has been taken in and stitched to tailor the shape of a garment to the wearer. Darts are folds (tucks coming to a point) sewn into fabric to take in ease and provide shape to a garment , especially for a woman's bust. They are used frequently in all sorts of clothing to tailor the garment to

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