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Tailoring Techniques for Fashion

Milva Fiorella Di Lorenzo
  • ©2010
  • 208 Pages
  • softcover | 11 x 8.5 | includes DVD
  • 978-1-56367-730-4
$110.00
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Integrating text, photographs, and a companion DVD, Tailoring Techniques for Fashion covers traditional and contemporary design and construction methods for tailored garments from ready-to-wear to couture details. Live demonstrations and hundreds of photographs illustrate step-by-step instructions for constructing a tailored skirt, trousers, jacket, and design details using traditional, fusible, machine, and massproduction methods. A history of the tailoring profession and a survey of contemporary tailoring business practices place these techniques in a professional context.
  • Step-by-step instructions for the construction of tailored garments
  • Photographs illustrating each step from pattern to finished garment
  • Traditional, fusible, machine, and mass-produced tailoring methods
  • "Tailoring Tips" providing useful information usually learned only through experience
  • Historical overview of tailoring and contemporary professional practices

Instructors Resources
  • Instructor's Guide
  • PowerPoint® Presentation
  • The Art, Craft, and Business of Tailoring
  • Basics about Textiles
  • General Sewing and Pressing Equipment
  • Body Measurement
  • The Pattern
  • Hand Sewing
  • The Seams
  • The Skirt
  • The Trousers
  • The Jacket
  • Design Details

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Milva Fiorella Di Lorenzo is an instructor in fashion department of Miami International University. She has worked as a fashion designer of active wear and sportswear for women, men and children, has managed product development departments for sleepwear companies in South America and the US, and directed ZS Apparel, a clothing company. Di Lorenzo studied textile design and fashion design for the apparel industry at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and has developed vast research in the study of tailoring, improving her knowledge and skills in different couture houses.

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