Professional vision is a key skill in visually-oriented professions, but its relevance to vocational education and training has only drawn limited attention from researchers. When educating fashion designers, professional vision is vital because precisely analysing clothing is required to create good products suitable for customers. In this study, we investigate what visual information must be observed in fashion design and how the professional vision of teachers and learners differs. Semi-structured interviews targeting the visual information that should be observed in fashion design were conducted with 10 teachers and 71 of their students (the latter in groups) and subjected to content analysis. Additionally, a test involving identifying and correcting clothing defects was administered to 9 of these teachers and 132 learners across three years of training to examine how looking at clothing differs between teachers and learners. Finally, two [4 by 1] ANOVAs with the level of training as the between-groups factors were conducted to examine the differences in the total number of defects identified and the number of accurate corrections suggested. Together, the quantitative and qualitative data show that professional vision in fashion design is a multifaceted skill that takes time to develop. Professional vision enables identifying the 1) different details and patterns needed to reproduce a garment; 2) defects in manufacturing, quality, and wearability; and 3) characteristics of the customer’s body. The findings also suggest that as fashion designers develop their skills, they cease looking at the surface features of clothing and adopt a more holistic and integrated approach that considers how a final garment could be realised for specific clients.

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时装设计的专业视野：师生的实践和见解

专业视觉是面向视觉的职业的一项关键技能，但它与职业教育和培训的相关性仅引起了研究人员的有限关注。在培训时装设计师时，专业的视野至关重要，因为需要精确地分析服装才能创造出适合客户的优质产品。在这项研究中，我们调查了服装设计中必须注意哪些视觉信息，以及教师和学习者的专业视野如何不同。针对10位教师和71位学生（后者为小组），针对服装设计中应观察到​​的视觉信息进行了半结构化访谈，并进行了内容分析。另外，在为期三年的培训中，对其中9名教师和132名学习者进行了一项涉及识别和纠正服装缺陷的测试，以检查看穿的服装在教师和学习者之间的差异。最后，以训练水平作为组间因素进行了两次[4×1]方差分析，以检查发现的缺陷总数和建议的正确校正次数之间的差异。总之，定量和定性数据表明，时装设计中的专业视野是一项多方面的技能，需要时间才能发展。专业的视野可以识别1）复制服装所需的不同细节和图案；2）制造，质量和耐磨性方面的缺陷；3）客户身体的特征。