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Stays and corsets : historical patterns translated for the modern body

By: Publisher: New York : Focal Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016Description: 274 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781138018235
  • 1138018236
  • 9781138414716
  • 1138414719
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • TT677 .B366 2016
Contents:
How to use this book -- Guidance on the pattern drafting process -- Finding and using the measurements for your historical pattern -- Pattern drafting tools -- Female measurements -- Female measurement form -- Female measurement guide -- female measurement table -- The female basic block pattern -- Female basic block instructions -- Preparing the female basic block for your historic pattern -- Historical patterns -- Introduction -- 1735-50 fully-boned corset bodice -- 1776 half-boned stays -- 1785-88 half-boned stays -- 1793 fully-boned short stays -- 1820 white cotton corset -- 1860 closed front corset -- 1875 corded and quilted corset -- 1890 riding corset -- 1890 wasp-waist corset.
Summary: Stays and Corsets: Historical Patterns Translated for the Modern Body goes a step beyond traditional historical costuming texts by not only providing you with historical pattern diagrams and information, but by showing you how to adapt these patterns to the contemporary body shape. Using her original pattern-drafting system, author Mandy Barrington will show you how to draft a historical pattern for a modern body shape, while still retaining an accurate historical silhouette. Each pattern has been generated from an original stay, Corset, or pattern taken from a historical garment. The instructions to follow these new patterns are designed to accommodate any size of female figure, allowing you to avoid extremely difficult, time consuming, and inaccurate historical pattern re-sizing Requiring only basic prior knowledge of pattern drafting, all calculations have been worked out for the costume maker and are provided in simple tables accompanied by easy-to-read, step-by-step diagrams that clearly show how the historical pattern is plotted onto the female basic block, coupled with photographs of the constructed stays and Corsets.
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Book Book Whitecliffe Library General Shelves General TT 677 BAR Vol. 1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 0013609

Stays and Corsets Vol. 1

Includes bibliographical references.

How to use this book -- Guidance on the pattern drafting process -- Finding and using the measurements for your historical pattern -- Pattern drafting tools -- Female measurements -- Female measurement form -- Female measurement guide -- female measurement table -- The female basic block pattern -- Female basic block instructions -- Preparing the female basic block for your historic pattern -- Historical patterns -- Introduction -- 1735-50 fully-boned corset bodice -- 1776 half-boned stays -- 1785-88 half-boned stays -- 1793 fully-boned short stays -- 1820 white cotton corset -- 1860 closed front corset -- 1875 corded and quilted corset -- 1890 riding corset -- 1890 wasp-waist corset.

Stays and Corsets: Historical Patterns Translated for the Modern Body goes a step beyond traditional historical costuming texts by not only providing you with historical pattern diagrams and information, but by showing you how to adapt these patterns to the contemporary body shape. Using her original pattern-drafting system, author Mandy Barrington will show you how to draft a historical pattern for a modern body shape, while still retaining an accurate historical silhouette. Each pattern has been generated from an original stay, Corset, or pattern taken from a historical garment. The instructions to follow these new patterns are designed to accommodate any size of female figure, allowing you to avoid extremely difficult, time consuming, and inaccurate historical pattern re-sizing Requiring only basic prior knowledge of pattern drafting, all calculations have been worked out for the costume maker and are provided in simple tables accompanied by easy-to-read, step-by-step diagrams that clearly show how the historical pattern is plotted onto the female basic block, coupled with photographs of the constructed stays and Corsets.

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