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Dress Pattern Designing
This classic book, now in its fifth edition, on pattern cutting by a Paris-trained expert, teacher and examiner grows ever more popular as a basic book for students, professionals and enthusiatic amateurs. Over one hundred diagrams and forty plates are combined with clear and detailed instructions for making patterns, so that the practical application of the methods is demonstrted side by side with the theory and basic principles. This book covers the basic course which for many years has been the foundation of all training at the Katinka School of Dress Designing and includes measurement and block pattern designing, yokes, dart manipulation, sleeves, collars and necklines, skirts, and the one-piece dress foundation. This new edition also features a fashion supplement ( by Ann Hagger ) which offers directions illustrated with forty illuminating diagrams for such topics as shirt and jacket blocks for casual wear, shoulder pad allowances, cuff and sleeve openings, and halter necks.
192 pages, Paperback
First published October 7, 1970
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April 16, 2023
Not the easiest or the most beginner-friendly textbook on how to draft patterns.
However, once one gets past the regular explanations interrupting the flow of working through the steps and understands how to use the charts included in the text, the learning process goes much smoother.
So far the instructions lead to good-fitting basic blocks. Keeping in mind that my personal body type fits within "standard" body size/shapes of the 1950s/60s when the book was originally written. Women of a larger bust and/or plus-size nature might encounter some difficulties and might have to learn some extra tricks (like making a full bust adjustment).
For myself, the book is keeper, since I have have so far had good results. In addition, it is good resource for other tpyes of basic pattern drafting.
However, once one gets past the regular explanations interrupting the flow of working through the steps and understands how to use the charts included in the text, the learning process goes much smoother.
So far the instructions lead to good-fitting basic blocks. Keeping in mind that my personal body type fits within "standard" body size/shapes of the 1950s/60s when the book was originally written. Women of a larger bust and/or plus-size nature might encounter some difficulties and might have to learn some extra tricks (like making a full bust adjustment).
For myself, the book is keeper, since I have have so far had good results. In addition, it is good resource for other tpyes of basic pattern drafting.
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March 3, 2013nice review
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