While on the topic, my girlfriend recently showed me this site: https://freesewing.org . It's fully open source and all the patterns are actually parametric, meaning you can customize the patterns to exact body measurements. Their custom JS framework for designing patters as well as the rest of the platform is MIT licensed [0] and the patterns are all Creative Commons.
Thank you so much for the shout-out
Joost - FreeSewing maintainer
Yeah, this page is great example for all those people who despise the role of marketing. The wording, info structure, photos a d so long are making it really appealing. Awesome execution.
Of course I'm just nitpicking, because I love everything about people who build such things. If you're working hard to be as nice as feasible, it's really hard not to advertise it.
So if we're putting a lot of emphasis on how nice we try to play, that's because we have that initial distrust to overcome.
Your criticism is valid, I'm merely trying to clarifying why we are putting the communal aspects front and center.
If you have suggestions for how we could improve, please share them
Joost -- FreeSewing maintainer
The illustrations are tops, too - love that aspect.
That being said, it's a fair point. Most of the sewing world is still rather strictly segregated between menswear and womenswear. We try to remove that distinction and just deal with bodies, but it's an ongoing journey. We're not there yet, but we'll keep at it.