We cut and sew on any shape

Author: Vera Olkhovskaya

Cover: Binding

Pages: 320

Format: 135x205 mm

Illustrations: b/w, 215 pieces

Publisher: "Family Leisure Club"

Год издания: 2008

Now this book can be read online

The book "We cut and sew on any figure" a simple cutting technique is presented for different, including for “complex” figures. Among others, you will see the basics and models designed specifically for the owners of such bodily forms as "apple" and "pear". It is these common body types that fashion designers have stubbornly ignored throughout the history of fashion.

The book is based on the author's observation that for each type of figure there is a pattern basis that is most suitable for him. When the base is chosen in accordance with the features of the figure, the process of drawing and fitting is easy and simple.

You will be able to get acquainted with the new trendy basics for jackets and light dresses, dress your beloved, even if his figure is far from the generally accepted ideal.

Skirts and trousers are presented in a separate chapter, after reading which you will learn how to correct the styles presented in it, in accordance with the vertical proportions of the figure.

Only in the book "We cut and sew on any figure" You will find new trendy cut basics that have never been described anywhere else.

Chapter first: classification of figures and bases

1.1. Vertical proportions of the figure. Six or eight?

1.2. Reasoning about the middle seam. Specific measurements of bends. Construction of the basic drawing of the back.

1.2.1. Waist darts and bevels. (read online 1.1, 1.2, 1.2.1)

1.3. How to choose the right base, based on the shape, size and height of the bust.

1.3.1. Small bust. (read online)

1.3.2. A small, low-lying bust. (read online)

1.3.3. Bust of medium size and medium height, as well as any other. (read online)

1.3.4. A new basis for slender owners of lush breasts. (read online)

1.4. The choice between tuck and relief.

1.5. Basics for large sizes. Large size: change in formulas.

1.5.1. Two side darts.

1.5.2. Basis with a barrel, a relief and a bust tuck.

1.5.3. The basis of a jacket or ladies coat for a pear-shaped figure.

1.5.4. The basis for the figures of the "apple" type.

1.6. The most common basics of sleeves.

1.6.1. The sleeve is straight.

1.6.2. Embossed sleeve.

1.6.3. Double sleeve

1.6.4. A sleeve for products of the big sizes (on measurement Op).

Chapter two: Leg length. Serious Approach

Reasoning about the styles of skirts and trousers for ladies and girls with short and long legs (with descriptions of models). As well as options for different widths of the waist: from aspen to full.

2.1. A skirt of four figured wedges with a low waist.

2.2. Breeches with low waist and belt.

2.3. Breeches with low waist, belt and yoke, as well as low pockets.

Chapter Three: Where will we make the waist? (about the vertical proportions of the figure)

3.1. Dress with an insert.

3.2. Blouse with an insert.

3.3. Blouse with peplum.

Chapter four: A figure with a large lumbar deflection, strongly protruding buttocks and a voluminous belly

4.1. Skirt with lace and guipure.

4.2. Dress with reliefs and detachable skirt.

4.3. Blouse "with an angle" for any full figure. (suitable for apple)

Chapter five: "Wasp waist" in combination with magnificent forms

5.1. Skirt: Wedge with a tuck - add a "zest".

5.2. Dress from 12 wedges.

5.3. Business dress - hide the chest.

Chapter six: "Woman-Boy"

6.1. Skirt in a circular soft pleat on the cover

6.1.1. Skirt with a yoke, the lower part on the cover.

6.2. Circular pleated skirt with volume at the top

6.3. Skirt with reliefs and pockets or draperies that increase the hips.

6.4. Breeches and pockets overhead "military".

6.5. Dress with sheath and additional yokes tied with a knot or bow.

6.6. Drapery that enhances the chest. Flower bed model.

6.7. Jacket - we increase the chest! Description of the forgotten technology.

6.8. A short flyaway for a narrow hip lady.

Chapter seven: "Hero figure" - a stooped man with a voluminous belly

7.1. Men's shirt for a stooped figure with a protruding belly.

7.2. Men's trousers for a figure with a protruding belly.