Dress Making trade is very similar to Cutting and Sewing trade that is offered by many Indian ITIs. The fact is that Dress Making course is much more exhaustive and covers the topic of garment making in detail.

Dress Making trade trains students in areas such as –

• Measuring garments
• Drafting garments
• Cutting garments
• Stitching garments
• Finishing garments
• Designing and creating block patterns
• Operating relevant tools and equipment
• Printing patterns using blocks
• Operating sewing machine
   

LEARNING OUTCOMES
The following are minimum broad learning outcomes after completion of the Sewing
Technology course of One year duration:
 

A. GENERIC OUTCOMES

• Recognize & comply safe working practices, environment regulation and housekeeping.
• Work in a team, understand and practice soft skills, technical English to communicate with
• required clarity.
• Understand and explain the concept in quality tools and labour welfare legislation and apply
• such in day to day work to improve productivity & quality.
• Explain energy conservation, global warming and pollution and contribute in day to day work
• by optimally using available resources.
• Explain entrepreneurship and manage/organize related task in day to day work for personal &
• societal growth.
• Understand and apply basic computer working, basic operating system and uses internet
• services to get accustomed & take benefit of IT developments in the industry
• In short, the course trains them in aspects related to handling clothing material and finishing them into simple garments.

B. SPECIFIC OUTCOMES
SEMESTER – I

• Make hand stitches in the given fabric
• Stitch the following using the given fabric
• Seams with seam finishes
  • Darts
  • Pleats
  • Tucks
  • Gathers & Shirrs
  • Frill
  • Hem
  • Casing
  • Edge Finishing
  • Neck lines
  • Placket
  • Pocket
  • Collar
  • Sleeves
  • Cuff
• Fix the fasteners on the given fabric
• Mend the given fabric
• Draft a pattern for Ladies’ Suit
• Sew a Ladies’ Suit with the help of the given pattern

SEMESTER-II

• • Sketch the following manually by applying suitable fabric designs
  • Indian Dresses
  • Western Dresses
• • Design the following with suitable fabric design using Coral draw software
  • Indian Dresses
  • Western Dresses
• Make the following Block Pattern set using different sizes taken from a size chart
  • Children's Block
• Block for Teenager
  • Ladies Block
  • Gents Block
• Make the Patterms for the following using Draping Techniques
  • Basic Bodice with Darts
  • Basic Bodice with Princess line
• Basic Straight Skirt
• Basic Circular Skirt
• Construct the following garments with fitting and quality according the sketched designs and
• blocks using adaptation/draping and manipulation techniques.
• Dress for Children (Yoke Frock), Dress for Teenager,Ladies Dress, Ladies Suit, Ladies
• Night wear, Ladies Blouse,Gents Shirt, gents trouser
• Make patterns of the following by Pattern Grading techniques to their next higher or lower sizes
• using the size charts
• Make markers on different width, texture & designs of the following