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c Pegged, or Inverted Triangle

The skirt tapers inward from hip level to hemline. The pegged silhouette may be achieved by increasing waist and
hip fullness or by tapering from the hip to the hem.
d Bell-Shape
The skirt clings to the figure’s curves at, above, or below the hip and breaks into fluid movement along the hemline.

4 SKIRT CHARACTERISTICS
Skirts are described in terms of the following three areas:
• The sweep: the width of the skirt at hemline.
• Movement: the way a skirt’s fullness reacts to the movement of the body.
• The break point: the point at which the skirt breaks away from the body into fluid movement.

5. SKIRT VARIATIONS
SKIRT VARIATION-1 : GORED SKIRT
A gore is a skirt panel that tapers toward the waistline. A gored skirt contains any
number of gores—from 4 to 12 or more—equally spaced or in clusters, depending
on the look desired.
The gore may hang straight from hip level, may be flared or pleated, and may
break away at any point along the seamline of the gore.
4-Gore Flared Skirt
Design Analysis

The basic 4-gore skirt is developed from the basic A-line skirt and has an attached
basic waistband. (The belt is separate and not part of the waistband.)

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