Draping Books
I’ve successfully completed underlining and cutting the fashion fabric for this past week. Yesterday, I completed pinning, basting and stiching all the darts. In my next posting I’ll detail how the French Darts were constructed and the consideration needed to successfully work with them since they are placed on the bias of the fabric. Dressmaking that incorporates retro styling and sewing works out much better when you have a library of reference books that include older and even vintage editions of sewing guides.
I will share in this posting some of my own resources. “Perfect Fit Patternmaking”, the text used in the French Fashion Academy. I use the text from the French Fashion Academy’s courses I took during the period 1979-1983. The system was developed during the 1950s when the Academy’s founder, Mr. Klamar, worked at such fashion houses as Dior.
This book is a manual on draping or, as it is known in France, moulage. Draping is a three-dimensional design and production technique that generates a considerable. Draping: The Complete Course. Starting with the basics of choosing and preparing the dress form for draping, the book advances through pinning, trimming.
The text is a treasure trove of 1950s fashion elements such as short kimono sleeves with gussets, princess seamed kimono sleeves and others that you may not always find in modern patternmaking books because of their complex drafting and time consuming sewing requirements. The system itself is very involved in that more complex patterns are created from more basic patterns. So to draft a certain style of sleeve or dress, one first has to draft the basic sleeve or bodice. When the pattern is drafted style ease has to be added into the basic measurements. This requires consideration and some level of experience with fitting. Yet the resulting garments fit so well that they are worth the time spent in the drafting. This is not an easy or quick method and no slopers are used.
Still after spending six months using Helen Joseph Armstrong’s technique I still prefer the precise fit obtained from using the French Fashion technique. For example, in some kimono sleeves or blouse sleeves Joseph shifts the dart intake into the sleeve area. This can result in a bubble appearing near the armhole and bust when the garment is made up and worn. The French Fashion technique has a way to eliminate a side dart on the unfitted bodice that prevents such a bubble from appearing on an unfitted, kimono sleeved dress or bodice.
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To be fair to both patternmaking systems I’ll say Armstrong’s approach is well suited to manufacturing while the French Fashion Academy’s patternmaking system is perfect for custom dressmakers creating outfits for individual clients. “Draping for Fashion Design” by Hilde Jaffe and Nurie Relis.
Draping Book
The newer edition contains more material and better illustrations. For all draping I refer to “Draping for Fashion Design” by Hilde Jaffe and Nurie Relis. The text is very dry and not as detailed as that in “Draping for Fashion Design” by Helen Joseph Armstrong. Still, the technique is easy to follow and the illustrations in the newer edition are very clear. A plus is that the newer edition has some very nice examples of the styles that can be created from the draping process.
They can be used to make smart, classic outfits for yourself. I do plan on using one for a blouse I want to make. “Precision Draping” “Precision Draping” is a very good guidebook to understanding how draping was done in the 1940s. I do not use this technique because of the difficulty I had working off the instructions.
Dropping Books When They Bore You Taleb
First, the draping is done in tissue paper because at the time the system was developed America was experiencing rationing during World War II. Also, the draping is done on the right hand side of the dress form. All pattern drafts resulting from the drape are also on the right side. What I found hard to do was work in confidence with tissue paper that has no grain lines or apex points marked off the way it is done in the technique developed by Jaffe and Relis. This still does not diminish the value of the book for anyone wanting to make vintage influenced styles. There are plenty of ideas for bodices and skirts that can be used with whatever flat patternmaking system or draping technique you prefer. There are also some very nice pattern transformations given for princess line dresses and suits that can be adapted to provide a classic 1940s influenced style for yourself.
Draping Book
———————————————- Note: 1. These books were all purchased by me for my personal use. None of the books in my library have been provided by a publisher in exchange for a review or mention at my blog. The French Fashion Academy is no longer open.