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 enlarge | Author: Anna Zapp
Publisher: Krause Publications
Category: Book
List Price: $21.99
Buy New: $9.63
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 286059
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.2 x 0.3
ISBN: 0873496817
Dewey Decimal Number: 646.4
UPC: 046081006814
EAN: 9780873496810
ASIN: 0873496817
Publication Date: March 28, 2004
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Condition: Brand new, may have remaider mark or slight shelfware
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 Good measurement charts! March 17, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
The real value in this book is in the first chapter. If you are going to be sewing for someone that can't be available for multiple fittings, the charts for taking every measurement under the sun are really great!
The Zapp Method of Couture Sewing: Tailor Garments Easily, Using Any Pattern January 10, 2007
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
What a great book!! I only wish that I had this years earlier! What nice finishing touches and creative ideas are here.
The best book ever January 9, 2005
38 out of 47 found this review helpful
I have a collection of sewing books. I got this one for Christmas. I wish I would of got this book earlier. I sew a lot of clothing, this book made the shirt I was makeing look pretty close to what you would buy in a store.
I would recomend this book to anyone who has any kind of sewing experence.
Useful and Unique December 28, 2004
177 out of 177 found this review helpful
This is a little hard to classify. It certainly is not for a novice, but once someone has mastered the basics, and is desiring to make an expensive-looking wardrobe, this would be a very good basic resource. The book seems to be quite a labor of love by the author, who clearly wants to pass on her wealth of experience. It is dense with practical material and has an incredible number of detailed photographs that go with the instructions. How to do all the scary stuff.
This is not the "Home Ec Way" of sewing, but techniques worked out by a lady who earned her living making quality clothing. It is not as general as the title suggested to me; it's an exact manual on creating pants, shirts, vests, and jackets in a precise and practical way. Starting with a much better fit.
For sewing pants, you start with a favorite pair that you own, and she has a detailed technique for copying their fit safely and accurately, and working from there.
I also applaud her on the many measurements she devises. As with another hero, Cynthia Guffey, she advocates taking the bust, waist and hip circumference measurements in front and back segments, not just circumferences. This change alone can make your sewn clothes fit much better. If you want the clothes to fit you well, you need to learn the contours of your shape. This book is the most practical I've seen on doing this with measurements.
I really could have used this years ago! If you want to sew nice clothes that you will wear, this would be on a short list, with Nancy Erickson's "Do you love what you sew" and Gale Grigg Hazen's "Fantastic Fit for Everybody" and Cynthia Guffey's seminar materials.
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