Pattern Cutting for Women's Tailored Jackets: Classic and Contemporary

* Winifred Aldrich applies the successful approach of her previous best selling textbooks to reviving the art of women's tailoring - a part of the fashion scene where standards of cut and style have deteriorated as a result of new technology
* demonstrates the difference between cutting for 'bespoke' tailoring and 'engineered' tailoring
* shows how to achieve complex cuts within the constraints of today's technical environment
* provides old and new techniques for design detail and discusses the opportunities (and problems) of new fabrics