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title: "Fabric"
url: https://fitchecklab.in/fabric
description: "Drape, weight, weave and colour, and why cloth resists tidy description. Reporting from the Fabric beat of FitCheckLab, the weekly paper of clothing, fit and machine."
published: 2026-09-06
updated: 2026-09-06
---

# Fabric

Published 2026-09-06

Fabric

### [Teaching a model about drape and weight](https://fitchecklab.in/teaching-a-model-about-drape-and-weight)

Two garments cut from the same pattern can hang completely differently. The difference is in the cloth, and the cloth is what photographs record worst.