Online Fit Review Before You Grade
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Check the Fit Before You Grade the Full Size Set
Pattern Room is built for speed, but once you are ready to commit to a full graded size set, confidence matters.
Our Online Fit Review is a focused technical session with an experienced pattern maker. We review your sewn sample, check the fit and construction, and help confirm whether your pattern is ready to scale.
This is not a full product development session or a redesign appointment. It’s a practical fit check, and we make the changes for you. Any alterations agreed in the session are made to your pattern and your base spec is updated. Your updated pattern is then exported and sent to you the same day, so you can resample and approve before you grade.
Who This Is For?
This session is for manufacturers and apparel businesses who have:
Purchased a single-size Pattern Room pattern
Sewn a sample in their intended production fabric
Reviewed the fit internally
Want expert advice before grading
Why your sample needs to be sewn by your own manufacturer
Fit is not only about the pattern. It is affected by fabric, cutting, sewing tension, construction method and shrinkage.
That is why we review the sample made in your real production conditions, not a sample made in our workroom.
Why? Because fit is influenced by:
Reviewing a sample sewn in your real production conditions eliminates surprises later.
This session is about confirming the garment will work in your system — not in ours.
Fabric stretch and recovery
Fabric weight
Shrinkage behaviour
Sewing tension and construction methods
Your Fitting Specialist
I’m Julia Van Der Sommen, creator of Pattern Room and a 30-year veteran of the fashion industry. I’ve worked as a pattern maker, designer, and manager across onshore and offshore manufacturing. After decades of seeing startups struggle with poor-quality patterns, endless revisions, and wasted money, I knew there had to be a better way.
That’s why I founded Pattern Room — the world’s first online pattern catalog with over 2.5 million professionally fitted, production-ready patterns available in just 48 hours. Now, you don’t need to gamble with overseas suppliers or spend 12 weeks waiting for patterns that may not even work.
What we review in the session
Alternate Options
Assess if an alternate option is the builder is better for your design
Garment Assessment
Assess garment balance and proportion
Fabric Behaviour
Evaluate stretch behaviour and fabric performance
Minor Adjustments
Make the minor technical adjustments, with your updated pattern sent the same day
Grading Ready
Confirm readiness for grading
Next Steps
Advise whether to proceed with a full size set
What This Session Does Not Include:
This is not a full product development session.
Startup fashion development
New style development
Full garment redesign
Major pattern reconstruction
Tech pack creation from scratch
Sewing or sample making
The Investment
Investment: $75 per design
(1 style $75 · 2 styles $150 · 3 styles $225)
Session length: 20 minutes per style, plus alterations, a spec update and your updated pattern re-exported as Illustrator (.ai) and DXF files, sent to you the same day so you can resample for final approval.
Location: Online via video call
Fitting Preparation Requirements
Sessions are conducted online via video call.
The link for fittings will be sent with your pattern delivery
Before your session, please prepare:
Your sewn sample in the intended production fabric
A live model if possible
Clear front, back and side photos
If live modelling is not possible
Any specific fit concerns you want us to review
Fabric details, including stretch/recovery if available
Link sent after delivery
When we email your pattern files