Jackets, Coats, and Suits from Threads
Jackets, Coats, and Suits from Threads

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Publisher: Taunton

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781561580484

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Since its first issue in 1985, Threads magazine has been a creative forum where needlework enthusiasts, fashion professionals, and people who sew share their knowledge. Here, construction methods and techniques used in making jackets, coats, and suits by such world-famous designers as Dior, Armani, and Issey Miyake are explored.

Tailoring
Tailoring

Author: Creative Publishing International

Publisher: Creative Publishing International

Published: 2011-05

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 1589236092

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Tailoring is the complete photo guide to sewing jackets and coats. Written by sewing professionals, this book teaches the trusted, proven methods for sewing tailored jackets with impeccable details and perfect fit. Written for the intermediate sewer who wants to move on to more challenging projects, this book ensures success with detailed, step-by-step instructions, more than 400 photos, in-depth discussions about products and how to use them. Tailoring offers guidance for every aspect of tailoring a jacket: fitting and pattern alteration, fabrics and tools, interfacings, interlinings, seams and finishes, hand stitches, collars, pressing, topstitching, shaping shoulders, setting in sleeves, sewing pockets, vents, and making perfect buttonholes.

Zero Waste Fashion Design
Zero Waste Fashion Design

Author: Timo Rissanen

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-08-06

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 1474255442

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Zero Waste Fashion Design combines research and practice to introduce a crucial sustainable fashion design approach. Written by two industry leading pioneers, Timo Rissanen and Holly McQuillan, the book offers flexible strategies and easy-to-master zero waste techniques to help you develop your own cutting edge fashion designs. Sample flat patterns and more than 20 exercises will reinforce your understanding of the zero waste fashion design process. Beautifully illustrated interviews with high-profile, innovative designers, including Winifred Aldrich, Rickard Lindqvist and Yeohlee Teng, show the stunning garments produced by zero waste fashion design. Featured topics include: The criteria for zero waste fashion design Manufacturing zero waste garments Adapting existing designs for zero waste Zero waste designing with digital technologies

The Suit
The Suit

Author: Christopher Breward

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Published: 2016-04-15

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1780235585

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A beautifully tailored history of this fashion staple—at once a garment of tradition, power, and subversion. The Suit unpicks the story of this most familiar garment, from its emergence in western Europe at the end of the seventeenth century to today. Suit-wearing figures such as the Savile Row gentleman and the Wall Street businessman have long embodied ideas of tradition, masculinity, power, and respectability, but the suit has also been used to disrupt concepts of gender and conformity. Adopted and subverted by women, artists, musicians, and social revolutionaries through the decades—from dandies and Sapeurs to the Zoot Suit and Le Smoking—the suit is also a device for challenging the status quo. For all those interested in the history of menswear, this beautifully illustrated book offers new perspectives on this most mundane, and poetic, product of modern culture.