There are several ways to sewing darts in a dress to make your dress with contour. Darts is manipulation on fabrics that will give the fabrics with 3-dimensional contours by fold the fabric and stitching into a point. This technique will give curves accentuate into a body and gives a correct fit to clothes. When you sewing dart in a dress, there are some types of darts applied to the dress fabrics such as below:
- Elbow darts. This is darts that often seen in tailored jackets, couture, and allow you to have a more fitted sleeve and space to move. With this dart type, when you hang the arms loosely to sides, you usually will keep a slight bend in the elbow and then the elbow dart will accommodate the natural bend.
- Dart tucks. This is the variation of darts that constructed with the standard version but the points have left open. The ends open have pleated look that will give softer look into blouses and billowy pants.
- Plain darts. Plain dart is the type of darts that common to see in sewing and it is usually found in around of hips, waist, and bust. The plain darts is a type of dart that can be altered and manipulated to create different designs elements that can still function such as darts, for example, the pleats and princess seams.
