Barb Tewksbury and Matt Newsome can line up even the most complex tartan into a perfect sett in the back, how can this designer not even get the lines to match up
As has been noted above, sewing garments with tartan is not the same as making a kilt with tartan. The complexity of pleating a tartan to sett has nothing on the work involved in trying to match up tartan at seams of a jacket for example. It's generally acknowledged by sewers that you try and have the tartan match up in one direction and ignore others. So a jacket side seams might match up, but the shoulders won't. You may think that that skirt is badly made, but it must have been a nightmare to lay out to get that one diagonal stripe in the front to match up. If you look further down in that post to the snowy scene with alady in the jumper, you should notice that the side seams don't match up. The sewer or manufacturer has elected to match up the horizontals, the verticals don't quite make chevrons.