Tailoring: The Classic Guide to Sewing the Perfect Jacket - 400 How-To Photographs

by Creative Publishing International

Book Overview

The most trusted guide to jacket tailoring on the market, Tailoring belongs on every sewer's bookshelf.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1589236092
• ISBN13: 9781589236097
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Quarry Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.2" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Been there, done that...

Yes, this is an exact duplicate of the 1988 Singer Sewing Reference Library book -Tailoring- as another reviewer (Brigitte Brand) states previously. I almost bought this book until I saw her review. I have the old Singer book. I checked and besides different front and back cover photos this book is an exact duplicate of the older Singer book from the dated fabric photos to the verbatim text and index. There is absolutely nothing new and it hasn't been updated at all. From the new cover picture it would almost seem that the contents are all about men's suits. That's not the case, however. All the examples within are suits for women. Of course women's suits started out being men's suits and the techniques and skills are identical. So this remains a fantastic book for men or women as other reviewers have described. If you ignore the very dated fabric patterns and (If you're a man) you also ignore that all the suits are women's, you will still receive very clear and excellent instruction. A well made suit in 1988 is still a will made suit today. Nothing much has changed except style so if you can find a bargain on the old book, get it! If not, this one is pretty cheap too for the amount of great information within.

An excellent guide for the advanced sewer

I have a number of books on tailoring and highly recommend this one for its detailed explanations, fine photos and presentation of different aspects of tailoring, from labor intensive custom work to the use of fusibles. As an avid sewer who has made my own clothes for years, I have always been slightly dissatisfied with the available information on tailoring, which often focused on techniques I either did not have time for or were not explained well enough. I followed the steps in the book (using the fusibles example) to make a jacket that fits perfectly and looks professional. It is not a book for the novice sewer but I certainly recommend it to anyone who has been looking for a guide to tailoring that offers different techniques and explains each of them well.

Good for jackets

The book is well written and has good illustrations. It offers machine stitching alternatives to the hand pad stitching, which may be of use to women who are tailoring their own jackets but do not have the time to sit and do the stitching by hand. This machine stitched version is the only part that I might consider using as an alternative to the hand stitching. I am not a fan of iron-on interfacing and would not use it in a tailored jacket, but I know someone might and the book shows how it can be used to give a decent look to a tailored jacket. I would recommend this book for anyone wanting to tailor a jacket. I still prefer Adele Margolis and Ethel Wyllie as my references for tailoring, but this is a good updated version with easy to follow instructions, especially for someone who has never tailored a jacket.

Copy of the Singer Reference Library

This Book is the best Book ever produced in regards to Tailoring with step by step instructions and lots of Pictures to follow. However I was hoping that this would be a different kind of Book than the one I already own. This is a reprint of the Singer Reference Library Book about Tailoring which was published in 1988. I was looking for this Book for many Years and I am glad to know that another Publisher seem to have aquired the rights to the Singer Books.

Strongly recommend!

"Tailoring : The Classic Guide to Sewing the Perfect Jacket" is the BEST book on sewing a classicly tailored jacket - and I have read ALL of them! There are step-by-step pictures and excellent explanations. I found it much easier and more helpful than the Cabrero text. The book explains both the hand couture and machine methods of jacket tailoring. To supplement this text I'd also recommend Mary Ellen Flury's book, "Tailoring Ladies Jackets" along with anything by Sandra Betzina and Kenneth D. King.