What is the crotch area? The crotch area is an area as said which encompasses the genitals but in terms of clothing, the crotch is the area above the thighs . Here again you are getting into the human body and describing the human body. You are trying to understand the necessary measurements for the human body. Why is the body such-and-such etc? The crotch area and genital area is interesting too as an area in the sense that there is the waist-line which is an important line and then one can mark out the hip line as where the body curves outwards from the waist especially for women. And then you ask that the hip lines and waist lines are not lines related to the crotch area. One cannot say really that the hip line cuts across and somehow controls the crotch area. The hip line may happen to intersect the crotch area in some way and it is the job of a technical person to note how this is done. Of course in the early days of tailoring, you can imagine how this was important. Maybe a question like this was important in creating the patterns necessary before the subsequent cutting of the fabric.
It is of course true that a trousers is chosen because of the waist circumference measurement and the inseam. How does the inseam relate to the waist circumference? Is this a valid question? The waist points are points that are located on a nice line below the arm. This line is of course not necessarily straight but it is a straight line in the sense that the body curves outwards after the waist points. This is how one characterises the body. Certainly the hip circumference could be said to be larger than the waist circumference. However this is not strictly noticeable with men or with certain women but this is getting into the area of types of bodies, types of human bodies. Can one generalise on types of human bodies? Then again this is an important question for bespoke garment creation.
See how you want to create a garment that holds this crotch or genital area. The body is not stagnant. It moves and it poses and the garment creation obviously takes this into account. Still there is only so far one can push your legs apart and still it doesn’t really pull at the garment because the crotch area remain still. The question here is whether one needs added stretch and more strength in the crotch area. This is one reason why one needs stretch and strength in this area. Still does one really need stretch? One needs stretch if one uses the garment perhaps for certain functions but obviously it is not necessarily for a tailored trousers. One is using terms like ’stretch’ and ’strength’ but one hasn’t really defined them not how the garment would actually be strengthened. Also what exactly would be ’stretched’? If one used a stretch fabric for the whole garment, would this not solve a problem? Perhaps the answer then to creating a garment for a person who is using the trousers/pants for an exerting/demanding/sports activity is a change in the pattern. One needs to look carefully at the pattern itself perhaps.
The crotch depth is a measurement that is taken when the person is seated. See the seating pose of the person. The person has to be seated as you can see the nature of the body, the waist line and then the thigh line. There is a line that could be called the low hip line and here I am calling it the thigh line which cuts across the crotch. Still the line has no relation to the crotch because the crotch is an area of the torso in a way that anything below that isn’t. The crotch is like the bottom section of the torso and imagine specific swimsuits where the torso is key and not the leg area. It is the cross-over from the torso to below the torso which happens at the crotch which is important for bespoke garment creation.
If you locate the line, which is the crotch depth, you are finding the distance between the waist line and the seat of the body and this seat is of course the buttocks area. There is no reference re: crotch depth particularly to the way the thigh folds into the crotch area in the front. The crotch depth above all measures from the waist to the seat and it in some way establishes an important measurement for the seat of the trousers. The seat is the buttocks area and the fact is that the line marking the bottom line of the seat or buttocks is also parallel with the crotch line in the front. You of course know that the crotch leads into the buttocks area and in this way the crotch depth which measures the seat of the human body is an interesting measurement. It is interesting because it tells you something about the human body. It shows how it is not always when the body is standing that one can get suitable measurements. The body needs to be seated and when it is seated, you can see the body in an important position ; And this position, which is the seated position, is important
By: Joel Keay
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