Showing posts with label textile-costume. Show all posts
Showing posts with label textile-costume. Show all posts

Sunday, 4 January 2015

Style Yourself

Style Yourself


Style Yourself

ASIN : 1616281316

Rating : 4.4

brand: Brand: Weldon Owen

category: Textile & Costume

Description : Learn how to craft ultrafashionable outfits with Style Yourself, an illustrated reference book that teaches readers the basics of any wardrobe and then offers loads of fashion inspiration from internationally beloved style bloggers.

Style Yourself is the perfect personal-style handbook—and gift!—for fashionistas of the digital age. This book presents the best of fashion bloggers, with tons of outfit ideas and expert tips that show you how to apply high-fashion inspiration to your everyday wardrobe.

In this innovative guide to personal style, 95 of the world’s premier fashion bloggers—whose sites receive over 500,000 daily visits combined—give hundreds of coveted insider tips, which are sure to delight teens, industry experts, and urban professionals alike. These new taste-makers (including Jane Aldridge of Sea of Shoes, Tavi Gevinson of Style Rookie, and Susie Lau of Style Bubble) boldly lead the way toward fresh personal style, sharing rich images of their wardrobe inspiration and glimpses into their personal fashion philosophies.

With eight comprehensive chapters, Style Yourself has you covered—from your head to your toes! Hundreds of illustrated and annotated garments provide readers with classic fit and styling advice, and for each type of garment, you’ll find examples of how to rock it from the blogosphere’s hyper-chic members . . . from Stockholm to Cape Town, and Osaka to Milan.

Featuring:
-GARMENT BASICS. Each type of garment is broken down, piece by piece, to help readers get their personal perfect fit.
-TAKE YOUR PICK. Illustrated galleries showcase tons of garment types, giving you variations on the basics, plus how to style each one.
-GARMENT REMIX. Bloggers show you how to mix and match basic garments in clever, fresh ways.
-BUILD YOUR LOOK. Learn how fashion bloggers start with a basic garment and use it to build a complete, head-to-toe look.
-SKIRT THE GLOBE. Go on a whirlwind tour to see how international bloggers wear a trend piece.

Chapters include:
Wardrobe basics – Get on top of your everyday look and learn what’s a must-have for any woman’s closet. Plus, insider shopping tips!
Tops – Start at the top—literally. See how to remix that old rock-band tee, wear a sequin shell any day of the week, and get cuffs that hit just right.
Bottoms – Craft fresh, high-fashion looks with fun layered tutus, elegant maxi skirts, clever cropped trousers, and brave knit shorts.
Dresses – Be a knockout at every occasion—from picnic-perfect pinafores to sexy date-night mini dresses and formal goddess gowns.
Colors and Fabrics – Take a crash course in color to figure out which hues look best on you! Discover how to go monochromatic, use an accent color, and play with multiple prints for unexpected looks.
Shoes – Skimmers, kitten heels, booties, brogues, and more! Study up on these fun shoe styles to see how a great pair of kicks can transform any outfit.
Accessories – Top off your look with a fedora worn in a surprising way, a pair of perfectly flattering sunglasses, or a stack of luxe bangles.
Underpinnings – Bras and hosiery can make or break an outfit! This chapter ensures that the garments closest to you give you the confidence to make the whole ensemble rock.

With its vibrant imagery and user-friendly appeal, Style Yourself is a book to be savored, showcasing ideas that range from highbrow couture to everyday chic. Let these self-made fashion experts guide you through the maze of fashion, so you can build a personal style that’s all your own!

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Saturday, 18 October 2014

Recycling Indian Clothing: Global Contexts of Reuse and Value (Tracking Globalization)

Recycling Indian Clothing: Global Contexts of Reuse and Value (Tracking Globalization)


Recycling Indian Clothing: Global Contexts of Reuse and Value (Tracking Globalization)

ASIN : 025335501X

Rating : 5.0

brand: Indiana University Press

category: Textile & Costume

Description :

In today's globally connected marketplace, a wedding sari in rural north India may become a woman's blouse or cushion cover in a Western boutique. Lucy Norris’s anthropological study of the recycling of clothes in Delhi follows garments as they are gifted, worn, handed on, discarded, recycled, and sold once more. Gifts of clothing are used to make and break relationships within middle-class households, but a growing surplus of unwanted clothing now contributes to a global glut of textile waste. When old clothing is, for instance, bartered for new kitchen utensils, it enters a vast waste commodity system in which it may be resold to the poor or remade into new textiles and exported. Norris traces these local and transnational flows through homes and markets as she tells the stories of the people who work in the largely hidden world of fabric recycling.




Tuesday, 16 September 2014

Fashion Design

Fashion Design


Fashion Design

ASIN : 0823016382

Rating : 4.0

brand: Brand: Watson-Guptill

category: Textile & Costume

Description : A valuable primer on the fashion industry for the 21st century! Fashion Design is the definitive reference for anyone who is considering a career in the fashion industry. It describes the qualities and skills needed to become a fashion designer; examines the wide range of career opportunities available; and gives an authoritative, balanced overview of the fashion business today. Using an approach that unites history, theory, and practice, Fashion Design aims to inform and inspire. Packed with over 300 illustrations, here is practical guidance and proven advice on such topics as the uses and language of clothing; patterns and fabrics; measuring, cutting, draping, and sewing; building a collection; researching and sketching; portfolios and self-presentation; plus much more. It equips aspiring designers and other fashion professionals with a valuable road map to this competitive, cutthroat industry. It also serves as an excellent reference and career guide for professionals interested in retail buying, marketing and sales, and other areas of the fashion business.

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Wednesday, 10 September 2014

Dress Fitting, Classic Edition: Basic Principles and Practice

Dress Fitting, Classic Edition: Basic Principles and Practice


Dress Fitting, Classic Edition: Basic Principles and Practice

ASIN : 0632064994

Rating : 4.0

brand: Brand: Wiley-Blackwell

category: Textile & Costume

Description : The techniques Natalie Bray pioneered and perfected revolutionised dress pattern designing, assisting the rise of the modern fashion industry. Her teaching has had a profound influence on design, production and education and her works are classics: fashions change but the principles of designing patterns in the flat do not. To be able to understand what is happening when observing a defect is already to have an idea of how to correct it. Here problems of figure, posture and of pattern adjustment are clearly explained so that the dressmaker can, with the confidence that comes with practical experience, learn to identify a defect and choose the best method of dealing with it.

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  • Used Book in Good Condition