Amanda Fulford cuts fabric in a pattern making class at the Apparel Arts fashion design school in San Francisco, Calif. on Saturday, June 9, 2012.

Her strappy sandals are making lots of noise as she runs around the class looking for a truing wheel to give her pattern the appropriate curve. “These shoes have no support,” she says.

In the pattern making class, students duplicate ready-to-wear garments by measuring critical points and tracing edges and curves.

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