High Fashion Sewing Secrets from the World's Best Designers: A Step-By-Step Guide to Sewing Stylish Seams, Buttonholes, Pockets, Collars, Hems, And More (Rodale Sewing Book)
If you want your notched collars to lie smoothly like Ellen Tracy's, your pants zippers to be as invisibly fused with the inseam pocket as Giorgio Armani's, and your topstitched facings to have the impeccable look of Chanel, this is the book to have. Home sewers need and want exactly the kind of painstaking construction tips that Claire B. Shaeffer provides. She not only tells you how to add designer details such as those mentioned above, but also how to copy any garment, alter a sleeve, change seams to darts or folds (or vice versa), and make a basic pattern. This is one of the best intermediate sewing guides on the market.
Only a few simple tools and patternmaking skills are needed to copy your favorite garments.
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| From: Amazon Posted: May 23, 2008 Type: User Review |
this is the one
If you're going to buy one sewing book, this is the one! It is packed with useful and understandable information. I checked it out of the library, but now I'm buying it so that I'll always have it nearby to refer to.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Mar 21, 2008 Type: User Review |
Excellent for the High Fashion Designer
This book is filled with information and great sewing techniques so that no matter what you make, it will fit... but it won't just fit, it will fit as if you had it custom made by Chanel. There are lots of secrets that make sewing seem like a...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Mar 03, 2008 Type: User Review |
comperhensive but hard to read
I admit I haven't read much of it. Just skimmed through it. It's just quite hard to read...too technical (good for those who like things technical ..I"m a more visual person) and too much information in one seating. But it's worthwhile to take...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Sep 24, 2007 Type: User Review |
I am torn on this book
It does have some great tips, and instructions on copying clothes etc. but one cannot deny that many of the "secrets" are indeed dated. For example, I can promise you that you will never need to know how to make a Double Flounce collar (page 79)....
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jul 27, 2007 Type: User Review |
great idea book
The book is good. The service fast. -just not exactly what I had expected for the type of book.
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