“…Textbooks on drafting garment blocks offer instructions for development followed by post development methods to perfect pattern fit, with a test garment try-on and subsequent pattern amendments [23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31]. This suggests the inventors of such methodologies understood the limitations of their approach and that traditional drafting methods are, more or less, simply approximations of body morphology with true shape reliant on fittings [5,32]. This is partly due to the fact that these methodologies do not numerically isolate ease, inhibiting the comparison between 3D body shape and 2D pattern dimensions [11], and partly due to a lack of 2D understanding of body shape, demonstrated by the variety of pattern shapes produced for base pattern blocks using different pattern engineering methods [11,33,34,35].…”