Metric Pattern Cutting for Women's Wear - Hardcover

Aldrich, Winifred

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1405175672 ISBN 13: 9781405175678

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008

Synopsis

Metric Pattern Cutting for Women€™s Wear, first published in 1975, provides a straightforward introductory book for students beginning courses in flat pattern cutting.This fifth edition continues to offer an introduction to the principles of pattern cutting, with a range of good basic blocks and examples of their application to garments. New for this edition is the inclusion of colour to help students recognize the different sections of the book and to enhance the garment illustrations? Colour illustrations also offer a new dimension to the updated material on computer-aided design and the CAD chapter now provides students with a clear guide to the technology.The size charts have been revised to reflect the changes in body sizing, the co-ordination with European size charts and to the way that clothes are now marketed to different sectors. The great expansion of casual wear has led to the growth of 'flat cutting' with no darting, and

About this title

About the Author:

Dr Winifred Aldrich was formerly Professor of Clothing Technology at Nottingham Trent University. She has also written two books specifically to enable students to extend their knowledge of fabrics and tailored garment cutting: Fabric, Form and Flat Pattern Cutting and Pattern Cutting for Tailored Jackets. Her other books include: Metric Pattern Cutting for Menswear and Metric Pattern Cutting for Children's Wear and Babywear.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1405175672
• ISBN 13: 9781405175678
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 224