Spec-ulation And Spec-ifications

sew very interestingly there are many different types of characters involved in creating a garment from the very beginning to the end, starting with a vision, the flow-y realm of imagination, the technicalities of placing these ideas into real form and shapes, the final visionary imaginative minds to place these onto a story board to convince the buyers to invest in these creations...

Here is an examples how word roots can link all these processes,

specification (n.)

1610s, "act of investing with some quality," from Medieval Latin specificationem (nominative specificatio), noun of action from past participle stem of Late Latin specificare "mention particularly," from Latin specificus, (see specific). With Latin -ficus"making, doing," from combining form of facere "to make, do." Meaning "technical particular" is attested from 1833; short form spec first attested 1956.

speculation (n.)

late 14c., "intelligent contemplation, consideration; act of looking," from Old French speculacion "close observation, rapt attention," and directly from Late Latin speculationem (nominative speculatio) "contemplation, observation," noun of action from Latin speculatus, past participle of speculari "observe," from specere "to look at, view" (from PIE root *spek- "to observe").

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the parameters of specification speculations in making a garment are limited to 5 parameters, sorry guies no pretty elaborate story here...

- a word starting with spec - can mean a precise set of information - spectacles will make your eyesight clearer- or an endless set of imagined scenarios.... speculation will allow you to imagine scenarios in order to bet financially in a positive or negative way...

Specification sheets are like spectacles, they do not mix with speculation, the only outcome is clarity... not options created by imagination.

Tricky but manageable...To use the word speculation regarding specification sheets is a clever way to disguise one’s own doubts and uncertainties of the technical process which involves a given number of parameters, not a multitude of possible parameters as the word speculation suggests...

1- the pattern measurements

2- the cloth with shrinkage implementation considered into the pattern

3- the sewing with seam allowances notification and respect

4- the final  pressing and steaming which might affect the whole process at the end when all is concluded

5- the technician measuring the garment who might measure slightly differently than the factory or master pattern cutter yet all three will come to an understanding of an allowance of plus or minus one centimetre

6 - human error... which can happen at any level of that chain...