Creating Body Coverings

by Jean Ray Laury

Book Overview

152 pages - hundreds of illustrations - embroidery, printed and painted, fibers, applique, tie dye and batik, leather, non-clothing, patchwork, accessories This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0442246927
• ISBN13: 9780442246921
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold (Trade)
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Live it, Wear it, LOVE it!!

What an amazing book! If you appreciate the creative "let your hair down" style, this book is for you. Can you say Peace, Love and Freespirited? Those kids on "That 70s Show" need their costume designers to get this book. The embroidered clothing is so colorful and fun, not making any kind of statement, just enjoying the expression. Macrame dresses, Tie dyed halters, patchwork capes, funky bright tennis shoes, all telling the story of free expression through colors, seemingly free form designs and attached baubles. If you are down, feeling low and in a funk, looking through this book will lift your spirits and make you want to head for the closet and get out those boring jeans and tops and give them real style. I loved the 70s, the jean purses, the torn washed jeans, the joy of the time and this book takes me back to that time with fond memories, wishing I was 16 again and could dress the way I wanted to.