freesewing/markdown/org/docs/patterns/simon/options/backdartshaping/en.md

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title: Back dart shaping
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Controls how much of the waist shaping will happing in the backdarts.

You can tweak this setting to balance the waist reduction across side seams,
back darts and (optional) front darts.


## Effect of this option on the pattern
![This image shows the effect of this option by superimposing several variants that have a different value for this option](simon_backdartshaping_sample.svg "Effect of this option on the pattern")
feat: Flat import of markdown repo This is a flat (without history) import of (some of) the content from our markdown module. We've imported this without history because the repo contains our blog posts and showcases posts content prior to porting them to strapi. Since this contains many images, it would balloon the size of this repo to import the full history. Instead, please refer to the history of the (archived) markdown repo at: https://github.com/freesewing/markdown 2021-08-25 16:09:31 +02:00			`---`
			`title: Back dart shaping`
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			`Controls how much of the waist shaping will happing in the backdarts.`

			`You can tweak this setting to balance the waist reduction across side seams,`
			`back darts and (optional) front darts.`
feat(markdown): Added auto-generated images showing sampled pattern options 2021-08-27 12:52:19 +02:00

			`## Effect of this option on the pattern`
			`![This image shows the effect of this option by superimposing several variants that have a different value for this option](simon_backdartshaping_sample.svg "Effect of this option on the pattern")`