1. find reference photo

2. lay out basic shirt block

    add a plane.  R X 90  (rotate on x axis 90 degrees)

    add modifiers – mirror and subsurf

3. Mark seams and unwrap

4. duplicate to back

    flip normals if necessary

5. Turn off subsurf

6. Select sides and make side sewing lines

     select verts

     F for face

     x delete faces only

7.  Same with top

8. Select all sew lines and make a vertex group called sew

9. enable cloth modifier – go to last properties icons called “physics”

Preset: Leather

Turn air to 0

Cloth collision:

quality 2

distance .005

repel 0

repel distance .001

friction   5

not self collision

enable cloth sewing springs

sewing force 20

shrinking, choose sew group made earlier

enable topmesh (and skirt or lower body if needed)

Soft body Outer: .003

Soft Body Damping:  1.0

lower skirt appearance sliders

Save (cloth modifier won’t work if file is not saved)

Select shirt

hit play

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choose a frame

apply cloth modifier

fix incomplete seams

remove doubles

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2nd Cloth Modifier

to soften dress

choose cloth modifier again

enable COTTON or SILK preset

Quality 10

cloth collision distance .004