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How garments are drafted, where standard sizing goes wrong on a shorter frame, and how to read a measurement chart before anything reaches a fitting room.

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An outfit divided by one horizontal rule at the waist. The knit above the line is drawn plain, while the trouser below it carries a heavy inside-leg line, a measuring bracket and a dashed hem rule.
Petite Fit

Petite on the Bottom, Regular on Top

Nobody is uniformly petite. Plenty of readers are petite in the leg and standard through the body, or the reverse, and buying both halves from the same rack serves neither. The mixing strategy has quiet support in the published sizing of several researched ranges. This piece shows where, and where it fails.

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A finished tailored jacket hanging at one side while a tailoring kit of three pins, a pencil and a coiled tape measure lies unused on the table, with a short ruled line stopping well before the garment.
Petite Fit

Which Petite Ranges Say You Will Not Need a Tailor

The alterations bill is the hidden second price of petite clothing. No brand publishes an alterations forecast, but eight publish enough about how their petite garments are cut for a labelled inference to be made. This piece shows each one, with its reasoning attached and its limits stated.

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  1. Reading a Blazer Before You Try It On

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