Module 2: Measurements and sizing

This module explains where the numbers in a sewing pattern come from. It is the part that separates making clothes for one person from producing for a market: for one person you take measurements, for a market you work from a size chart.

  1. How to take body measurements — Take a reliable, repeatable set of measurements that gives the same result twice in a row.
  2. What a size chart is and how to read it — Understand where a garment's sizes come from and why two different brands don't fit the same.
  3. The size range: why you can't just scale up — Understand what it means for a pattern to come with the full size range and why that is what makes serial production possible.
  4. Ease and fit: why the same measurement gives different garments — Be able to decide how much ease a garment needs based on how it will be used and what fabric it is made of.

How to buy from Moldey

Choose the pattern and the format, pay with Mercado Pago, PayPal, bank transfer or cryptocurrency, and download the file. The price depends on the format and, for each format, it is the same across the whole catalog and in every country: $10 for PDF A4, $15 for plotter PDF, $20 for the sublimation file and $50 for the editable Audaces and Optitex files. A new pattern developed to order costs $100. PLT, DXF/AAMA and CDR files, for plotters and CAD, can also be requested through WhatsApp or Telegram.

Every size comes in the same file. Delivery is digital: no shipping, no freight, no customs. Patterns are sold with a commercial production license, so you can make and sell the garments with no unit limit.

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