A Tailoring Guide to Pattern Drafting

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A Tailoring Guide to Pattern Drafting, Volume 2 offers more pattern drafting instructions for men’s most popular tailored garment styles from 1850 to 1900, used in theatres and film productions today. A Tailoring Guide to Pattern Drafting, Volume 2 offers pattern drafting instructions for men’s most popular tailored garment styles from 1850 to 1900, used in theatres and film productions today. The second volume features a wide range of 19th-century garments, providing information and detailed instructions on the dress coat; dinner jacket; Norfolk jacket; reefer jacket; overcoat; Inverness coat; shoulder cape; shooting, sporting, and dress cape; three-quarter circle cape; pointed and rounded hood; dressing gown; pyjamas; single- and double-breasted evening dress waistcoats with a ‘V’- or ‘U’-shaped neckline; collars and lapels; sleeves; knickerbockers; and waistcoat and trousers for the corpulent figure. Volume 2 features: More instructions and a variety of garments for 19th-century menswear A brief history of each garment, accompanied by colourful illustrations Instructions incorporating both the imperial and metric systems Recommendations on choosing the appropriate modern-day equivalent fabric Recommendations on the quantity of the fabric Recommendations on the button size to make the garment appear more authentic A Tailoring Guide to Pattern Drafting is intended for anyone with a desire to learn or refine their costume-cutting skills for theatre and film production. The book is aimed at undergraduate and graduate students, tutors, and both amateur and professional makers interested in the subject. To access the author’s YouTube channel, featuring 130 step-by-step lessons to make a 19th-century morning coat using classical tailoring techniques, visit .

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Pages: 224, Edition: 1 armband, Paperback, Routledge