TL;DR: 23.3% of fashion students drop out yearly - not because pattern making is hard, but because it's taught backwards. Traditional classes: 4 hours drafting a block, terrible fitting, instructor fixes it, you learn nothing. Real problem: memorizing steps without understanding why. Skirts are taught first (actually hardest to fit). fashionINSTA lets students focus on principles, not tedious drafting. I need to tell you something that might hurt to hear. Most people who try to learn pattern making quit within the first month. According to the Education Data Initiative, 23.3% of undergraduate students leave universities and colleges every year, with first-time full-time undergraduate freshmen having a 12-month dropout rate of 22.3%. Not because pattern making is impossibly difficult. But because they start in completely the wrong place. After 15 years in fashion and teaching hundreds of people pattern making, I've watched this same story play out over and over. Someone gets excited a...