Winifred Aldrich

Hundreds of stylish illustrations and clear, concise instructions are used to illustrate this flexible system of pattern cutting, offering both students and designers the means to achieve original, well-cut designs. The children's clothing market has changed remarkably during the last decade, and this standard work has been revised to reflect new developments, including the increasing importance of the teenage customer....

Since the first edition was published in 1980, Metric Pattern Cutting for Menswear has become established as the standard work on this subject and has proved invaluable as both a textbook for students and a reference source for the practising designer. In this fifth edition, the chapter on computer-aided design now has full-colour illustrations and reflects the growing importance of...

Metric Pattern Cutting for Women's Wear provides a straightforward introduction to the principles of form pattern cutting for garments to fit the body shape, and flat pattern cutting for casual garments and jersey wear. This sixth edition remains true to the original concept: it offers a range of good basic blocks, an introduction to the basic principles of pattern cutting,...

Millions of tailored jackets (women's business jackets) are sold every year. Yet, in spite of being amongst the most popular garments in fashion stores, there is a depressing "sameness" about them unless customers are prepared to pay for a designer jacket. To grade very different shapes requires pattern cutting skills which are being lost as new technology replaces traditional expertise....