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)
by Claire B. Shaeffer
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Author: Claire B. ShaefferIllustrator: Glee Barre
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2001-02-24
ISBN: 1579544150
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Rodale Books
Book Reviews of 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)
Book Review: Impressed to find a book that lives up to it's title.
Summary: 5 Stars
This is indeed a step by step book on sewing. The book is divided into two parts... the first concentrating on technique, the second on design basics. The book is formatted by using an outline to describe each sewing technique. This formatting establishes consistency and allows the reader to skip around the book choosing to read what they need. Each lesson begins with a short introduction followed by tools and supplies, pattern preparation, and assembly. There are clear close-up photographs, illustrations, and diagrams to accompany the lesson. An intermediate to advanced sewer can easily follow along to learn designer "secrets" that will make garments polished. A beginner can also benefit from the instruction however the book assumes a fundamental knowledge of terms such as bias, crossgrain etc. There is a short glossary included but the book does not instruct on basic sewing.
I was pleased to find a section on preparing a jacket lining since most patterns do not include the lining. The author shows you in one lesson how to draft a lining pattern. The next lesson is how to sew and insert the lining. The instruction is clear and concise.
The section on zippers is limited but the majority of the book tackles the most common problems encountered in making a garment. It is not an encyclopedic book on sewing.
The book is neutral and not a blatant advertisement of any particular sewing company's product.
Overall it is a well written, useful book for garment making.
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Summary of 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)
Internationally known sewing expert Claire Schaeffer reveals the secrets of high-fashion legends such as Geoffrey Beene, Ralph Lauren, Oscar de la Renta, Yves Saint Laurent, Liz Claiborne, and Calvin Klein. Claire's illustrated, step-by-step instructions let you duplicate the design details made famous in expensive ready-to-wear. Plus, Claire's timesaving patternmaking and copying methods can be used to create one-of-a-kind, original garments.Only a few simple tools and patternmaking skills are needed to copy your favorite garments.
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.
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