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Okay, so this may not look like the most interesting #dailysketchext but bear with me. These are fashion flats or flats and like I mentioned yesterday, they are something like the blue prints for all items of ready-to-wear clothing. Every piece of clothing you ever bought in a store has one of these for itself filed away somewhere. You can't see it in this quick photo as clearly, but they are highly technical so they have to be perfect. Straight, confident lines and all that. This is what you send to China/Bangladesh/India with the pattern for the garment so that they can make it right, so it has to be perfect. Otherwise you will communicate something wrong (placement of a pocket, where the zipper goes) and you will have to send the shipment back and get the whole lot redone. This is one of the first jobs a person will have when working in the fashion industry, and it can be a really good living. You've just got to really nail it. These flats are not my final ones, but rather the first part, and they are done by hand on tracing paper so that I could accurately mirror one side of the garment to the other for symmetry. Later this will be transferred to another piece of paper for a final rendering. These can also be done on a computer, of course, but it's good to know how to do them by hand because some employers really look for that. So, here is something you can do in the fashion industry if you felt so inclined...