In professional garment construction, technique is only the tool.
Decision-making is the real skill.
Every dress is the result of hundreds of decisions made before the first stitch: fabric behavior, grain direction, internal support, balance, and how the garment is expected to perform on a real body.
When those decisions are unclear, technique can’t save the garment.
You end up correcting instead of building.
This is why two people with the same sewing skills can produce completely different results. One follows steps. The other understands structure.
Construction is not about knowing how to sew something.
It’s about knowing why it should be built a certain way.
That clarity is what separates sewing from professional garment construction.
Michael Zamora