This profusely illustrated primer in pattern making is great for creating fashionable clothing as well as pretty necklines, pockets, and sleeves. Nationally acclaimed sewing expert Adele Margolis provides simple, step-by-step directions and more than 1,000 illustrations for making clothes for work, home, and play — everything from stylish skirts, dresses, and jackets to children's clothing.
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By old fox
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I bought the for my wife, my daughter and her are into make dance out fits and find it hard to find patterns they can adapt.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Good Exploration
Dec 25 2006
By Eliza
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Format:Paperback
I bought this book thinking that it will show me how to draft patterns from scratch. Instead, what it really does is give instruction on how to fit a basic (shell/sloper) store bought pattern and how to work with it to create different looks. If you design your own cloth and would like to make working patterns for the designs, this book will be very helpful for you. If you want to learn pattern drafting, look elsewhere.
54 of 54 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good for understanding theoretical concepts of pattern-making
Jan 13 2009
By S. Wellman
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This book starts by explaining the function of darts in a basic sloper, and demonstrates how to retain the fitting functions while changing the positions of the darts. The author shows how to divide one dart into several, replace a dart with a series of tucks, replace a dart with gathers, and even eliminate the dart. As the chapters progress, the alterations become more complex, for example, transferring the fit conferred by the basic dart into curved seams. The book is not intended to help in fitting clothes; one must already have the basic slopers for a bodice, skirt, or pants. The author's understanding of patterns and how they fit is highly accurate, and the suggestions for changes are innovative. I would say that the book deserves four or five stars for its theoretical analysis - my criticism is that it isn't very practical. Perhaps I'm being too demanding, for it may be impossible to teach pattern-making without hands-on demonstrations. The book's fashions are, unfortunately but unavoidably, dated. This, too, affects the extent to which the book is helpful in designing modern garments, and as a consequence I am, after reading it, still unsure of how I would change certain pattern styles. I nevertheless recommend the book for its value in understanding general principles of making a piece of flat cloth fit the contours of the body.
74 of 80 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A long-awaited re-issue of a classic
Nov 28 2006
By Ellen
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Format:Paperback
Back when everyone sewed, Adele Margolis's books were best sellers and book club selections, prized for their excellent and easy-to-follow instructions on dress-making, tailoring, and creating your own patterns. As publishers phased out their craft divisions, her books went out of print, though they were still eagerly hunted down online and passed down from sewing mother to sewing daughter. Now--thank you Dover Publishers!--here is a re-issue of one of her timeless classics, with guidance that is just as fresh and useful as ever. If you sew, if you ever wanted to sew, if you just want to understand more about how clothes should be made, you MUST have this book by the Julia Child of sewing.
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