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Product Description: The Complete Photo Guide to Clothing Construction helps you master all of the techniques needed to sew clothes--including tops, dresses, pants, skirts, and even outerwear. This technique-driven book follows the entire process of clothing construction, including a section on the sewing machine and other tools/materials used, information on working with patterns and fitting, laying out the pattern pieces, cutting and marking, and on through every step of construction to the final button...read more

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9781589237773, titled "Complete Photo Guide to Clothing Construction" | Creative Pub Intl, February 1, 2014, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: The Complete Photo Guide to Clothing Construction helps you master all of the techniques needed to sew clothes--including tops, dresses, pants, skirts, and even outerwear.

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The turbulent career of Ruth St. Denis embraced the whole creative flux of artistic and spiritual movements in the early 20th century. Drawing on St. Denis's own diaries and letters, as well as on interviews with students and colleagues, Shelton illuminates both the tumultuos life of one of dance's most charismatic first ladies and the origins of modern dance itself.

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9781596687561 | Interweave Pr, March 5, 2013, cover price $29.95

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9780292770461, titled "Ruth St. Denis: A Biography of the Divine Dancer" | Reprint edition (Univ of Texas Pr, October 1, 1990), cover price $14.95 | also contains Ruth St. Denis: A Biography of the Divine Dancer | About this edition: The turbulent career of Ruth St.

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By Marta Alto, Theresa O'Connell (illustrator), Pati Palmer, Kate Pryka (illustrator) and Jeanette Schilling (illustrator)

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9780935278965 | 2 edition (Palmer Pletsch Pub, June 1, 2012), cover price $27.95

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By Threads Magazine (corporate author)

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9781600853968 | Taunton Pr, October 16, 2012, cover price $21.95

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Product Description: A classically tailored suit never goes out of style, nor do the skills and techniques used in crafting one. This complete course on tailoring will become a trusted reference in any sewing library.
By Fox Chapel Pub Co Inc (corporate author)

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9781565235113 | Design Originals, March 1, 2011, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A classically tailored suit never goes out of style, nor do the skills and techniques used in crafting one.

By Creative Publishing International (corporate author)

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9781589234345 | Original edition (Creative Pub Intl, January 1, 2009), cover price $24.99

Miscellaneous:

9781616733773 | Rev exp edition (Creative Pub Intl, April 1, 2010), cover price $24.99

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Product Description: With the growth of private labels in recent years, the demand for industry technicians to measure garments and generate spec sheets has never been greater. The 2nd Edition of this guide equips students with everything they need to know about measuring sample garments, creating fully graded spec sheets, and fitting garments for production...read more

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9781563678233 | 2 spi pap/ edition (Fairchild Books, July 27, 2009), cover price $120.00 | About this edition: With the growth of private labels in recent years, the demand for industry technicians to measure garments and generate spec sheets has never been greater.

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Product Description: A guide to classic English men's fashion, for would-be dandies everywhere.Today, classic English tailoring is admired worldwide, and rightly so. There is nothing quite like a pair of well-polished brogues, a tailored dinner jacket, or even freshly laundered striped cotton pajamas...read more

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9780500514023 | Thames & Hudson, May 1, 2008, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: A guide to classic English men's fashion, for would-be dandies everywhere.

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A do-it-yourself guide to fashion design explains how to transform basic clothing into stylish, trendy fashions and one-of-a-kind accessories, with a variety of creative projects that come complete with illustrated, step-by-step photographs and instructions, expert design tips, and helpful tricks. Original. 15,000 first printing.

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9781581809787, titled "Alternation: Transform. Embellish. Customize." | North Light Books, November 19, 2007, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: A do-it-yourself guide to fashion design explains how to transform basic clothing into stylish, trendy fashions and one-of-a-kind accessories, with a variety of creative projects that come complete with illustrated, step-by-step photographs and instructions, expert design tips, and helpful tricks.

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Presents step-by-step instructions and patterns ranging in difficulty for turning old blue jeans into new items, from adding color and fabric and making new jeans to creating skirts, ties, and accessories out of the old fabric.
By Nancy Flynn and Karen Macklin (editor)

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9780977266036 | Spiral-bound edition (Zest Books, June 1, 2007), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Presents step-by-step instructions and patterns ranging in difficulty for turning old blue jeans into new items, from adding color and fabric and making new jeans to creating skirts, ties, and accessories out of the old fabric.

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Detailed, step-by-step instructions, highlighted by nearly four hundred illustrations and photographs, explain how to transform denim jeans into hip, stylish fashions to suit any taste, featuring ninety-nine ingenious options that allow readers to select the patterns and styles that suit them best. 25,000 first printing.

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9780307351708 | Spiral-bound edition (Clarkson Potter, March 6, 2007), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Provides ninety-nine ideas and patterns for transforming old denim jeans into new items such as tops, skirts, slippers, and bags.

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A reference guide for dressmaking, tailoring, and home decorating, including information regarding special equipment, notions, and seams.

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9781589232266 | Creative Pub Intl, August 1, 2005, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A reference guide for dressmaking, tailoring, and home decorating, including information regarding special equipment, notions, and seams.

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Product Description: Make It Fit will provide foolproof solutions on ways to tailor clothing for all body types. With illustrated instructions, this manual shows users how to measure, calculate and mark basic patterns to customised dimensions. It also includes a pack of 29 full-sized slopers - basic patterns for garment sections, without style lines or seam allowances - printed on a soft, synthetic fabric to drape over the body or model form, allowing users to mold the pattern over an actual form to attain the correct measurements...read more
By Hyo-Jin Choi (contributor), Sylvia Rosen and Chao Yang Yan (illustrator)

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9781563673399 | Fairchild Books, September 30, 2004, cover price $47.95 | About this edition: Make It Fit will provide foolproof solutions on ways to tailor clothing for all body types.

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Completely revised and updated, this ultimate sewing resource, originally published in 1976, provides an abundance of instructions, projects, full-color illustrations, and diagrams for making a vast array of clothes and home accessories, accompanied by fabric-width conversion and fabric-care charts. (view table of contents)

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9780762104208 | Readers Digest, November 1, 2002, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Provides general instructions for fitting, constructing, tailoring, and finishing women's, men's, and children's clothing and for making curtains and bedcoverings.

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Combines sewing fundamentals with up-to-date coverage of the latest equipment and advice on how to set up an effective sewing center, choose fabrics, and produce professional-looking clothes and household items. 50,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo.

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9780888502476 | Revised edition (Readers Digest, June 1, 1995), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Provides general instructions for fitting, constructing, tailoring, and finishing women's, men's, and children's clothing and for making slipcovers, bedspreads, and pillows

Gathers seventeen articles from past issues of Threads magazine that discuss design and offer sewing tips, including as leather piping and sequin embellishment, working with unusual fabrics, pleating straight skirts, creating zip-out linings, and sewing with flat-fell seams

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9781561580712 | Taunton Pr, April 1, 1994, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Gathers seventeen articles from past issues of Threads magazine that discuss design and offer sewing tips, including as leather piping and sequin embellishment, working with unusual fabrics, pleating straight skirts, creating zip-out linings, and sewing with flat-fell seams

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Includes tailoring and construction techniques for sewing jackets and coats, describing how to press wool, insert jacket linings, work with gabardine, and make two-way pockets

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9781561580484 | Taunton Pr, April 1, 1993, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Includes tailoring and construction techniques for sewing jackets and coats, describing how to press wool, insert jacket linings, work with gabardine, and make two-way pockets

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Product Description: Covering every aspect of the menswear industry, retail merchandising, and manufacturing, this book instructs the fashion professional in assisting the customer in the purchase of menswear, including information on the make, quality, and fit of mens apparel...read more

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9780135714232 | Facsimile edition (Prentice Hall, January 1, 1993), cover price $83.80 | About this edition: Covering every aspect of the menswear industry, retail merchandising, and manufacturing, this book instructs the fashion professional in assisting the customer in the purchase of menswear, including information on the make, quality, and fit of mens apparel.

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Product Description: The turbulent career of Ruth St. Denis embraced the whole creative flux of artistic and spiritual movements in the early 20th century. Drawing on St. Denis's own diaries and letters, as well as on interviews with students and colleagues, Shelton illuminates both the tumultuos life of one of dance's most charismatic first ladies and the origins of modern dance itself...read more

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9780292770461 | Reprint edition (Univ of Texas Pr, October 1, 1990), cover price $14.95 | also contains Handsewn: The Essential Techniques for Tailoring and Embellishment | About this edition: The turbulent career of Ruth St.

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