Vice Versa - I want what you've got...

Some time ago, in a quaintly musty bookshop in Devon, I picked up this:

It's old school, proper dressmaking and teaches you about the components of tailoring (and should I ever feel the need to make my own lingerie, I am now fully theoretically equipped)  I put it aside for a while as I am crafting more than dressmaking at the moment though that is about to change. 

On the back it lists a companion volume called Dress Pattern Designing - The Basics of Principle and Fit and I thought 'Wow, I would love to get my hands on a copy of that...' I was reading through Caroline's lovely blog and lo and behold... on the 25th July she posted about having found the first volume and looking for the second!  Small small world, I guess...

* with a bit more research I've found that these books are still in print which is incredible.  I think they are on the fourth edition now...

Comments

[Megan]

Thanks for the encouraging comments on Wishbone Diaries, I really appreciated you taking the time to leave them.

This book looks great. I often buy old dressmaking books too, because I find the information in them on finishing and technique to be really rich and useful.

[Flibbertygibbet]

So true - many patterns nowadays are modified, a bit homogenised. Now that might make it easier for beginners like me to follow but mostly it would be good to be able to make the more complicated options! They don't make them like they used to, as 'they' say...!