Concetti Chiave
- Fastenings are essential for garments, enabling easy wear and removal while maintaining the integrity of openings.
- Common fastenings include zips, press studs, hooks and eyes, buttons and loops, each serving specific purposes based on garment requirements.
- Selection of fastenings should consider the type of opening, fabric, garment part, and whether the fastening is decorative or concealed.
- Fastenings should complement the garment in color and be suitable for cleaning methods like washing or dry cleaning.
- Proper attachment of fastenings involves reinforcing materials, ensuring alignment, and maintaining flatness and invisibility unless decorative.
Fastenings
Most garments need openings. And fastenings are devises of things attached to the openings.
Use of fastenings
1. Like the openings, fastenings allow the garment to be put on and take off.
2. They keep the openings in position whilst the garment is being worn.
3. They protect the openings from strain or stretching.
4. They can be used for decoration.
Types of fastenings:
- Zips: These are useful on blouses, dresses, jackets, trousers, etc.
- Press studs: These are used where there is less strain.
- Hooks and eye/bars: These are used where there is strain to prevent gapings. It can also be used to fasten the end of a neck opening.
- Buttons and loops: These are used on openings without a wrap.
- Buttons and bottonholes: These are used to fasten faced slit openings on blouses and children's dresses.
Points to consider in choosing a fastener.
1. The type of opening to be fastened.
2. The type is fabric for example light materials.
3. The use of the fastening for example decoration.
4. The part of the garment to be fastened for example cuff or neckline or waist band of skirt.
5. The style of the garment. It can be concealed like not visible or it can be for decoration.
6. The fastenings should be washable or dry cleanable.
7. The fastening should match the garment in colour for example zips and buttons.
Guidelines for attaching fastenings
1. See fastenings on doubled thickness of material, otherwise reinforce the garment all around the opening.
2. Sew fastenings directly opposite each other, so that opening will be flat when fastened.
3. Attach sufficient number of fastenings, so that opening does not gape when garment is worn.
4. Make fastenings invisible unless they are used as part of the garment decoration.
5. Place fastenings close enough together to keep the opening flat when closed.
6. See the fastening after the opening has been finished and pressed (except bound buttonholes and loops).
Domande da interrogazione
- ¿Cuáles son las funciones principales de los cierres en las prendas?
- ¿Qué factores se deben considerar al elegir un cierre para una prenda?
- ¿Cuáles son las recomendaciones para colocar cierres en las prendas?
Los cierres permiten poner y quitar la prenda, mantienen las aberturas en su lugar mientras se usa, protegen las aberturas del desgaste o estiramiento, y pueden usarse como decoración.
Se debe considerar el tipo de abertura, el tipo de tela, el uso del cierre (por ejemplo, decoración), la parte de la prenda a cerrar, el estilo de la prenda, y que los cierres sean lavables o limpiables en seco y combinen en color con la prenda.
Se recomienda coser los cierres sobre un material de doble grosor o reforzar la prenda alrededor de la abertura, colocar los cierres directamente opuestos para que la abertura quede plana, usar suficientes cierres para evitar que la abertura se abra, hacer los cierres invisibles a menos que sean decorativos, y colocarlos lo suficientemente cerca para mantener la abertura plana al cerrarse.