Making Trousers for Men & Women: A Multimedia Sewing Workshop
David Page Coffin
Language: English
Pages: 144
ISBN: 1589234499
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Comfortable, flattering pants can be challenging to make - but they're wonderful to wear. In this book, David Coffin provides his inventive, sure-fire methods for getting it right.
With his characteristic precision and straight talk - and with the help of photographs, drawings, and exclusive access to a series of online video sequences - Coffin teaches the reader how to get great results, whether making a showcase garment or just whipping out an everyday pair.
For more information and book-related extras, visit http://makingtrouserswithdpc.blogspot.com/, David Coffin's blog all about making trousers and specifically designed for the readers of this book.
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Shape I can depend on. It’s a “Fit Once, Vary Forever” sort of logic, similar to the process many ready-to-wear and custom-clothing makers use to create new designs from simplified basic patterns they call slopers. The sloper keeps these makers secure in the knowledge that their customers will fit well in their new clothes each time, while enjoying whatever additional features are part of the new look. So, my pants-pattern collection is actually just one pattern, plus an easily added-to folder.
Shape I can depend on. It’s a “Fit Once, Vary Forever” sort of logic, similar to the process many ready-to-wear and custom-clothing makers use to create new designs from simplified basic patterns they call slopers. The sloper keeps these makers secure in the knowledge that their customers will fit well in their new clothes each time, while enjoying whatever additional features are part of the new look. So, my pants-pattern collection is actually just one pattern, plus an easily added-to folder.
Shorter petersham pieces don’t need to be shaped, but they can be, with an iron, even after they’re attached, if it helps them lie nicely. You decide. You can iron the petersham to shape it, either before or after attaching one side of it to the garment. Before I discovered petersham and abandoned waist stiffeners, I took a different approach. In front, the pockets took care of business, finished at the top with hand stitches. I’d fill any gaps with hand-inserted scraps, à la Stanley.
Basting thread, 31 belt loops, 110–113 pockets with, 62–64 positioning and stitching of, 111–112 shaped loops, 112 turning loop strip, 110 Betzina, Sandra, 77, 118 bottom-fold pockets, 49 Brooks Brothers men’s pants, 16 button flies, 29, 90–96 lining of, 94–95 parts of, 91–92 buttonhole belt loops, 113 buttonhole fly tabs, 29 button holes, keyhole, 97 button tab, inserting in pocket, 72 C Cabrera, Roberto, 78 cast body form, 10 center back seams, decisions before cutting,.
1-58923-449-9 1. Pants. 2. Men’s clothing. 3. Women’s clothing. I. Title. TT605.C65 2009 646’.3--dc22 2009011156 Technical Editor: Carol Fresia Copy Editor: Nancy Chute Proofreader: Karen Ruth Cover & Book Design: Kathie Alexander Page Layout: Silke Braun Fashion llustrations: Maite Lafuente Printed in Singapore.