Q. I’m new to Dress Shop. I selected a size and then drafted my garment but I can’t see what it looks like. Where’s the model?

 

A. To view Mia and your chosen garment, click on the blue “Design” button, which is located at the top of the vertical row of option buttons between the left and right of your screen.

 

 

Q. I know I have the sleeve designer, but all I get is a standard type sleeve editor. Am I missing something?

 

A. The custom sleeve designer is available for people who own the original Fashion Designer or the currently offered Fashion  Designer  1 . To work with the 'Custom Sleeve Designer', once you have selected your garment, select the Sleeve option box on Mia and in the pop-up menu select 'Custom'.

 

 

Q. I have Fashion Designer 1 and 2, but some of the design tool options are grayed out. Why?

 

A. Your design tools are grayed out if they do not apply to your currently chosen garment. For instance, if you are working on a pair of pants, Darts and Crotch are active, while Neck, Collar, Sleeve, etc. are grayed out (disabled). If you are working on a dress, the Crotch tool is grayed out because it does not apply to a dress.

 

 

Quick Tip: To avoid losing your saved pattern designs and measurements or take them with you to a workshop, back them up to a floppy disk, CD or thumb drive. To do this, start in either My Computer or Windows Explorer (not Internet Explorer), locate and open your Local Disk (C:) > locate and open the folder Program Files > locate and open the folder LivingSoft > open the DressShop folder. In your DressShop folder, locate MyPatterns (folder), MyDSActivations, MyDSMeasurements and MyDSSettings. Copy and paste or drag-and-drop these files onto a floppy disk, CD or thumb drive.  To put them back into a new install, copy them from your backup media and again go to C:\Program Files\LivingSoft\DressShop and paste them back into the DressShop folder.