My favorite duds

How to easily reproduce the pattern of your clothes without undoing it.

We all have a garment carefully foldedaway or hung protectively in our closet that recalls a key moment or memory inour lives: it's a piece of clothing we certainly don't want to take apart! Though we may regretfully have abandoned it, wedream of wearing it again but often it's worn out or doesn't fit us anymore. It may be a souvenir from a trip or a timelesspiece that's frayed and threadbare. Maybe it reminds us of a person who wasdear to us, maybe it's too classic or strict but fits us perfectly, maybe wefound it in a vintage store... in any case, we keep it and take it with uswhenever we move! The SEVEN WORKSHOPS in this book explain how toremake patterns for garments without taking them apart. You’ll discover a sweater, jeans, pants, a shirt and a blouse plus a dress and jacket. By using a variety of simple techniques, you'll beable to make a pattern you can transform at whim to give your new garment alook that's yours alone!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

A patternmaker in the clothing industry and then a trainer for the LECTRA company,
Nathalie Coppin currently gives all CAD classes in patternmaking at ESMOD Paris. She was thus the best person to write this book on methods for grading.

Claire Wargnier is a graduate of ESMOD, the world's oldest and most renowned fashion design school, where she was a pattern-drafting professor during thirty years. Her experience in the different sectors of the fashion industry have allowed her to adapt her teaching methods to the students' needs. She is also a consultant in the fashion industry, works and lives in Paris.