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The Spec Manual 2nd edition

By Michele Wesen Bryant and Diane DeMers
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The Spec Manual 2nd edition by Michele Wesen Bryant and Diane DeMers is an essential guide for fashion professionals and students, offering comprehensive instructions on measuring garments with industry-standard techniques. This updated edition features detailed front and back croquis for multiple sizes and demographics, clear measurement illustrations, and practical spec sheet templates. New additions include fit model measuring instructions, bra measurement guidance, sample garment specifications, a clip art library, and helpful conversion charts and grading worksheets. Free online student resources complement the textbook/workbook.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This manual is ideal for fashion design students, garment technologists, and industry professionals seeking authoritative resources on garment measurement and specification.

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Provides fashion professionals and students with a guide for measuring a variety of garments, reflecting standard garment-industry practice. This textbook/workbook contains front and back view croquis for men, women, off sizes and children, spec sheet templates, measurement points, tables with measurement points, sample spec sheets and a CD-ROM.

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The 2nd Edition of The Spec Manual provides fashion professionals and students with a comprehensive guide for measuring garments using standard industry practices. This textbook/workbook contains front and back view croquis for women, off sizes, men, juniors, and children; spec sheet templates; illustrated measurement points; and tables with measurement points.

New to this Edition:

  • Instructions for measuring a fit model
  • Chapter on how to measure a bra
  • Sample garment specifications with plotted measurements
  • Clip art library of flats, collars, pockets, accessories, trim, and stitches
  • Fraction-to-decimal conversion chart
  • Grading worksheet
  • Incremental grade guides for all size ranges

Student resources including croquis figures, spec sheet templates, a grading worksheet, and clip art can be accessed for free at Fairchild Books Studio Resources.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781563673733

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 October 2005

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Fairchild Books

Illustration: illustrations

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 11.0mm

Width: 215.0mm

Height: 280.0mm

Weight: 526g

Pages: 200

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Arts & Culture Diane DeMers Fashion & Design Michele Wesen Bryant Non-Fiction

About the Author

Michele Wesen Bryant is an adjunct in the Fashion Design Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She also teaches flats and specs at Parsons School of Design. Bryant has been working in the fashion industry for over 20 years, having had fashion illustrations appear in Vogue, YM, Seventeen, Brides, Women's Wear Daily, Ladies Home Journal and Good Housekeeping.Diane DeMers is associate professor of fashion design at The Fashion Institute of Technology and a design consultant for Her Majesty Intimates and Cole Girl's Swimwear. For three years she designed Haute Couture, Pret a Porter, and License collections for Carven Couture in Paris, then continued her design career in New York City with Calvin Klein Intimate Apparel, Adrienne Vittadini, and Malain Knits.

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