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Elements and Performance Criteria

  1. Determine job requirements
  2. Prepare to cut custom-made garments
  3. Lay up and cut material

Range Statement

This field allows for different work environments and conditions that may affect performance. Essential operating conditions that may be present (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) are included.

Workplace procedures include one or more of the following:

requirements prescribed by legislation, awards, agreements and conditions of employment

SOPs

work instructions

PPE

oral, written and visual communication

quality practices, including responsibility for maintenance of own work quality and contribution to quality improvement of team or section output

housekeeping

tasks related to environmental protection, waste disposal, pollution control and recycling

WHS practices

Australian Standards include:

the relevant industry or Australian Standards that are current at the time this unit is being undertaken

Body measurements include one or more of the following:

height and weight

reference points, such as nape, waist point, seat vertex, abdomen vertex, carpus, neck base, upper sternum, bust point and pelvic bone

levels, such as crown, shoulder, armscye, bust or chest, waist, hip, crotch and knee

girth measurements, such as waist, bust or chest, hip, high hip, upper and under bust, head circumference, upper arm, wrist, thigh, calf, ankle, heel/instep

horizontal measurements, such as shoulder, shoulder breadth, across front, across back and bust point to bust point

vertical measurements, such as nape to centre back waist, nape to neck base, nape to bust or chest, nape to waist, nape to wrist, centre front waist to floor, centre back waist to floor, right-hand side waist to floor, left-hand side waist to floor, waist to hip, inside leg, body rise, arm length, and neck length

cup size

shoe size

seat prominence

thigh

knee

instep

calf

posture

Body characteristics include one or more of the following:

genetic, developmental and structural influences

shape classifications, such as hourglass, rectangular, pea and inverted triangle

anthropometric classifications (somatotypes)

shoulder slope (raised, normal and sloping)

body sway and postural asymmetry (according to lower and upper body)

proportions (tall, short or average, short or long-waisted and mid-body shortness)

Lay-up and cut material includes the following:

laying-up tasks associated with laying-up operations where size, shape and cost of fabric are significant

measuring, cutting and pattern selection or alteration combined in custom-made specialist order cutting

Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy the requirements of the elements and performance criteria, and include:

reading and following work instructions, standard operating procedures (SOPs), safe work practices

applying relevant standards

obtaining accurate measurements from at least two (2) clients

interpreting garment measurements to suit special body characteristics of client, on at least two (2) occasions

determining preferred fabric and incorporating special needs of the client into the design, where required

consulting and communicating effectively with the client for the presentation of ideas and designs and ensuring design is suitable for client

chalking design into the pattern or selecting/modifying the pattern to meet the requirements

checking material for quality, faults, width, selvedges, dye lot and marking requirements

laying-up and aligning material with pattern

cutting material to meet design requirements and measurements of the pattern

preparing all relevant paperwork and documentation in accordance with workplace procedures.