Fashion Sewing for Everyone, Adele P Margolis, How to Sew Book Vintage Excellent Condition
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Fashion Sewing for Everyone, Adele P Margolis, Doubleday & Co, 1974, hardcover with dust jacket, 435 pp incl index, excellent condition.
Over 600 step-by-step illustrations made this how-to sew book a classic. Written with the beginner in mind, Margolis has a gentle humor that will guide you over the rough spots and help you maintain the passion that guided you into learning to tailor your own clothing in the first place. Plenty of tips to benefit any level of expertise.
Contents: Part One - Simple Styles that Stagger (Fast Fashion, The Opening Scene, Let's Face it!, Romantic Ruffles, The How of Hems, The Size of It, Facts about Fabrics). Part Two - Fashion Multiplied: Shirts, Skirts, Slacks, Shorts (The Mileage in Multiples, Out of Sight but very much in mind [the interfacing], Something Up Your Sleeve, Sizing You Up in Skirts, Slacks, and Shorts, Now you See It, Now You Don't [the waistband], Pockets, Borrowed from the Boys, Things to Think About Before you lay out, cut, and mark the fabric).
Part Three - Tailored to a "T" (The Shape of Things to Come, Help Wanted to Make Hems Stay Down and Shoulders Stay Up, Linings, Press Your Iron into Service, Artful Doodles and Classic Closings, A Passel of Pockets, Tailor Talk). Part Four - Grab Bag: Assorted Goodies, Sheer to Sturdy (Sew for Sundown, For Sheer Pleasure, Lovely Lace, The Clingers, The Glimmer-and-Glow Department, The Third Dimension of the Two V's [Velvet and Velveteen], The Wrap-Up, Frankly Fake Fur, Two-Faced but Trusty, It's Raining Pretty Raincoats, A Fitting Ending [How to Fit the Garment], Sew Long).
CONDITION: Excellent; hardcovers and pages in clean, intact, like-new condition despite their age; dust jacket still whole and bright with one 1/4-inch edge tear at bottom and very minor edge wear. |
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