Converting a Women’s Suit Jacket to a Coat Sloper

This lesson will teach you how convert a suit jacket and sleeve sloper into a coat sloper, which will be the foundation for many of your coat and cape designs. You will learn how to increase certain areas of the suit jacket sloper and how to increase the suit sleeve to add the appropriate amount of wearing ease when designing coats.

The suit jacket sloper needed for this lesson can be found and drafted in our lesson, Convert a Fitted Torso Sloper to Suit Sloper. The suit sleeve sloper can be found and drafted in our lesson, Convert Fitted Sleeve to Suit Sleeve.

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Module	Description	Step
1	Preparing the Front & Back Suit Sloper	1-5
2	Converting the Suit Jacket Sloper to a Coat Sloper	1-2
3	Converting a Suit Jacket Sleeve Sloper to a Coat Sleeve Sloper	1-5

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MODULE 1 • Preparing the Front & Back Suit Sloper

Step	Description
1A	The suit jacket sloper needed for this lesson was drafted in our lesson on how to Convert a Fitted Torso Sloper to Suit Sloper and will be the foundation for drafting the coat sloper. The suit jacket sleeve can be found and drafted in our lesson, Convert Fitted Sleeve to Suit Sleeve.
1B	We will be working with half scale slopers for this lesson and therefore, if you are working in full scale, you would double all of the measurements included in the lesson.

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