Blouse patterns (farma)

Which blouse farma should I choose?

The farma is the paper cutting pattern a tailor lays on the cloth. Ours covers 22 blouse designs, and most people start from the back: princess cut if you want shaping through the body, katori for a cup-seamed front, three dart or four dart for a plainer fit, and boat or deep neck where the neckline is the point. Belt or no belt is a separate choice on every one of them. The blouse neck designs page draws every neckline we cut, back and front.

Standard size sets, or your own measurements?

We sell both, and they answer different jobs. A graded set sold as "all size 28 to 44" is one pattern scaled up and down in fixed steps, so it fits the average of a size rather than a person — which is exactly what a boutique or a tailoring unit wants when the same design is cut again and again. Our standard size sets run wider than that: 8, 10, 12 or 20 sizes on body loose, up to 52 inches, delivery included. A made-to-measure farma is the other kind, drafted after you order from the measurements you enter, and there we cut sizes 29 to 49. Several of the blouse models here are sold both ways. If your measurements fall outside the charts we call you rather than guess a size the workshop cannot cut.