Pattern Cutting for Men's Costume

Name: Pattern Cutting for Men's Costume
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781408100066
Price: 84.99 NZD
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By Elizabeth Friendship

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Pattern Cutting for Men's Costume offers a detailed, practical guide to drafting patterns for key men's garments spanning the 16th to 19th centuries. It features easy-to-follow instructions for average and custom measurements, helping adapt patterns to men of all shapes and sizes. Historical introductions outline the evolution of men’s dress, and patterns recreate period clothing based on paintings where no examples survive. With hundreds of diagrams, it serves as an essential resource for costume-makers in theatre, historical reenactment, and fashion history.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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Ideal for costume-makers, historical fashion enthusiasts, theatre designers, and anyone interested in men's period dress.

Pattern Cutting for Men's Costume is a practical guide featuring patterns for the most important garments worn by men between the 16th and 19th centuries.

Simple instructions that will allow you to start cutting right awayIllustrated with line diagrams and hisorical images throughoutCovers a range of styles and periods, both fashionable and everyday wear

Description

Pattern Cutting for Men's Costume is a practical guide featuring patterns for the most important garments worn by men between the 16th and 19th centuries. Easy-to-follow instructions explain how to cut patterns for ‘average’ and individual measurements, with expert advice on how to adapt patterns to fit men of all shapes and sizes.

Introductions to each section describe the major developments in men's dress, revealing how garments evolved. Patterns for period garments, for which there are no actual examples, are based on contemporary paintings. Illustrated throughout with hundreds of diagrams, this is a much-awaited and valuable addition to the library of costume-makers in all fields.

Features a new system of drafting patterns for men's period costume.
Includes patterns for the most important non-fashionable garments (worn from the 16th to the 19th centuries) plus clothes in vogue from the middle of the 16th to the end of the 18th centuries.
Illustrated with hundreds of diagrams accompanied by step-by-step instructions for period garments, plus a few versatile theatrical designs.

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Costume describes the book as 'visually handsome,' noting its detailed illustrations and practical approach.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781408100066

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 30 October 2008

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Methuen Drama

Illustration: Approx 150 colour illustrations and photographs

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 186.0mm

Height: 244.0mm

Weight: 452g

Pages: 224

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About the Author

Elizabeth Friendship wrote the system of cutting for Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and taught there for over 25 years. For several years she did all the cutting for the Welsh National Opera, and prior to that she cut all costumes at the Citizen's Theatre. She trained in Fashion at St Martin's School of Art, London and her first job was drafting patterns at J.P Coats.