Abstract: An inspiration of fashion designing garments pleat veins present its nature clearly through history development and technique means. Based on the development of pleat veins in apparel history, the article makes an introduction of three stages from the liberalization age in ancient Greece and Rome, homogenization period around 19th and early 20th century, to the present pluralization era, each with different styles and technique means. After employing apparel three-dimensional structure to analyze operating steps in different common pleat veins of body piece at present, it goes on to put forward with operation tips from the formation of gathering quantity, the selection of initial position, the fabric performance and direction, the spatial integrity of clothes to armhole curve.