Remember when every fashion student in New York had to hand-draft patterns?

I was cleaning out my old portfolio and found my first collection from 2008, all done with paper, rulers, and French curves. Now, my niece is in the same program at FIT and her whole final project was done in CLO3D, with digital fabric simulation and everything. The shift from physical draping to full digital prototyping in just over a decade is wild. Has anyone else had to adapt their whole design process because of software like this?

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evan_cooper732mo ago

Took a weekend CLO crash course, honestly saved me.

martin.riley2mo ago

Man, that's so real... it's wild how a quick, focused burst of learning can actually fix things. Like, last month I watched a 20-minute video on patching drywall instead of calling someone, and my wall looks fine now. Or figuring out my car's weird noise from a single forum thread. Sometimes you just need that exact chunk of info, not a whole degree.

aaron_adams2mo ago

Exactly. The internet's a giant toolbox now.