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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Book Summary Author: Claire B. Shaeffer Illustrator: 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 |
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Book Reviews of the 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)
Customer Review: Great, but NOT for beginners.
Summary: 5 Stars
This is NOT a book for beginners--you must know what you're doing before attempting some of these things. You at least have to know basics and have some experience first. But when you get the experience, you will like this book! I used this book to trim a rather blah-looking two piece light blue suit, consisting of a skirt and short-sleeved, princess seamed top that comes down to the hipline. (One of those "See and Sew" patterns for $1.97.) The cut was great, the style looked great--on paper. I don't know what it was, but despite my best hopes and efforts to pick the right fabric, it just didn't look good. I wore it twice but still didn't like it. (Everybody else did--go figure.) Flipped through this book, and decided to give the Chanel-style trim a try. If I ruined it, so what? Worked like a charm. Okay, my stitches aren't perfect, but it looks infinitely better than it did before. I also tried that YSL trick of edgestitching the binding after topstitching it down--WOW. I may try a black suit with white trim next time. THAT will be great. I have tried, but unsuccessfully, the slanted welt pockets for skirts and pants from Calvin Klein. Guess I'm just a math dummy--I couldn't make it work for anything! Next up: try to duplicate that Christian Doir top that's done up in orange.
I guess if I'd actually READ the book instead of flipping through it like a reference book I'd get more use out of it!