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Dress Fitting: Basic Principles and Practice, Classic Edition

ISBN: 978-0-632-06499-1

January 2003

Wiley-Blackwell

128 pages

Description
The techniques Natalie Bray pioneered and perfected revolutionised dress pattern designing, assisting the rise of the modern fashion industry. Her teaching has had a profound influence on design, production and education and her works are classics: fashions change but the principles of designing patterns in the flat do not.

To be able to understand what is happening when observing a defect is already to have an idea of how to correct it. Here problems of figure, posture and of pattern adjustment are clearly explained so that the dressmaker can, with the confidence that comes with practical experience, learn to identify a defect and choose the best method of dealing with it.

About the Author
Natalie Bray trained in Paris while connected with a Court dressmaking business in London. The techniques she pioneered and perfected revolutionised dress pattern designing. Her teaching has had a profound influence on design, production and education.

Ann Haggar, who wrote the Fashion Supplement, has many years’ experience both in industry and in education, and combines her writing with teaching at St Martin’s School of Art and with couture.

Features
* Classic work reissued simultaneously in hardback with Natalie Bray's Dress Pattern Designing and More Dress Pattern Designing
* Natalie Bray's work expounds the techniques of pattern design which still underpin the modern fashion industry