Ladies Couture Tailoring: A Step-by-Step Practical Guide to Making a Jacket that Fits

Michelle Pye, an experienced bespoke tailor and teacher, provides a step-by-step guide to making a handmade jacket. She emphasizes the preparation stage and alteration steps to ensure a fantastic fit, and warns of common mistakes and techniques of the trade. It is a rare opportunity to learn from an experienced tailor.

Format: Hardback
Length: 128 pages
Publication date: 10 August 2021
Publisher: The Crowood Press Ltd

In this comprehensive guide, Michelle Pye unravels the intricate process of crafting a handmade jacket. With her extensive experience as a bespoke tailor and educator, she delves into every step, from creating a toile for fitting to cutting, inserting pockets, applying sleeves and collars, and hand finishing and pressing the jacket. Extensive attention is given to the preparatory stage and subsequent alteration processes to guarantee a remarkable fit. Ladies Couture Tailoring also serves as a valuable resource, offering explanations of tailoring terms and shedding light on common mistakes within the trade. It provides techniques such as using a clapper to absorb steam or shrinking out fullness to facilitate the sleeve insertion process, ensuring a delightful and rewarding experience for anyone embarking on the journey of making their own jacket. This rare opportunity to learn from an experienced tailor, who is passionate about sharing her skills and offering personal guidance throughout, is a testament to the art and craft of tailoring.

Weight: 670g
Dimension: 223 x 269 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781785009167