Dress Fitting: Basic Principles and Practice - Softcover

Bray, Natalie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0246118490 ISBN 13: 9780246118493

Publisher: Grafton Books, 1982

Synopsis

The techniques Natalie Bray pioneered and perfected revolutionized dress pattern designing, assisting the rise of the modern fashion industry. Her teaching has had a profound influence on design, production and education and her works are fashions change but the principles of designing patterns in the flat do not. To be able to understand what is happening when observing a defect is already to have an idea of how to correct it. Here problems of figure, posture and of pattern adjustment are clearly explained so that the dressmaker can, with the confidence that comes with practical experience, learn to identify a defect and choose the best method of dealing with it.

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Book Description

The techniques Natalie Bray pioneered and perfected revolutionised dress pattern designing, assisting the rise of the modern fashion industry. Her teaching has had a profound influence on design, production and education and her works are classics: fashions change but the principles of designing patterns in the flat do not.To be able to understand what is happening when observing a defect is already to have an idea of how to correct it. Here problems of figure, posture and of pattern adjustment are clearly explained so that the dressmaker can, with the confidence that comes with practical experience, learn to identify a defect and choose the best method of dealing with it..

From the Back Cover

Natalie Bray, in the same clear style that has helped many readers of Dress Pattern Designing and More Dress Pattern Designing analyses

Edition details

• Publisher: Grafton Books
• Publication date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0246118490
• ISBN 13: 9780246118493
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 128