Dress Fitting: Basic Principles and Practice
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Language: English
Published by Granada Publishing, 1982
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- Title
- Dress Fitting: Basic Principles and Practice
- Author
- Natalie Bray
- Publisher
- Granada Publishing
- Publication year
- 1982
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0246118490
- ISBN 13
- 9780246118493
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
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..
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