Reddit reviews Patternmaking for Fashion Design (5th Edition)
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We found 4 Reddit comments about Patternmaking for Fashion Design (5th Edition). Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
Pattern Making for Fashion Design. It's expensive. You need to make boring stuff to get the basics down and then you can apply those principles to your own avant garde designs and drafting patterns for them.
I think part of it is that I’m not aware of this being taught in trade schools. Take this with a grain of salt, because my experience is with theater costuming in middle, high school, and college (including designing costumes for a play), home sewing, and historical re-enactment, but my major was neuroscience in college, so my knowledge is less extensive than a fashion major.
I have been sewing; however, for more than two decades.
That being said, Rosika Parker’s The Subversive Stitch makes a pretty good argument for the historic devaluing of sewing during the Middle Ages with concurrent social movements to restrict female power.
Here’s my perception of the hierarchies in the different careers and the education requirements (see further down)
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Here’s what I’m aware of for schooling (skewed because my experience is at a four year university)
You might have better luck hunting down your local theater (you might be able to do this with fashion designer houses too; no idea) and asking for the required qualifications to be hired.
For historical costuming, try an apprenticeship or membership with your local re-enactment society or SCA
For learning how to sew (may not include pattern drafting, rendering patterns digitally, or concept art generation) try your local sewing machine service shop (search vacuum service shops too because they overlap).
Here are some books to recommend:
Fashion:
For someone who already sews
Here are ones I feel I have to include, but they’re kind of impractical:
Here are cheaper options
For learning to sew
Historical Reconstruction
For someone who already sews:
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Couture Sewing by Claire Shaeffer. She also has more specialized books on the parts of Chanel-style suit, such as The Couture Cardigan Jacket and The Couture Skirt. Here's her Amazon page.
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Thomas Von Nordheim's Vintage Couture Tailoring is excellent. He did the structured costumes for The Phantom Thread.
I've only looked through it, but Zoya Nudelman's The Art of Couture Sewing had beautiful photos.
Roberta Carr's Couture: The Art of Fine Sewing has hideous examples but good information.
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For pattern making, Helen Joseph Armstrong's book is very popular. Books by Ernestine Kopp and Natalie Bray are others.
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There are plenty of patternamking text books out there, and one is probably as good as another...the problem is that you can only get a basic block by patterning from a book and after that you'll need to know how to adjust your pattern to fit like modern jeans...a pattern drafted by following a book will fit like a tent. This is the textbook I used in college...pretty spendy for something that will only get you part way there, especially since you only need the 5-10 page jeans section.(switch to paperback and look at the used prices, waaaay better)
I'd suggest taking a patterning class at your local community college or see if your local fabric store knows who offers them.