A Tailoring Guide to Pattern Drafting: 1850-1900 Menswear for Theatre and Film, Volume 2 - Brossura

Lawton, Katerina

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ISBN 10: 0367265354 ISBN 13: 9780367265359

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2025

Riassunto

A Tailoring Guide to Pattern Drafting, Volume 2 offers pattern drafting instructions for men’s most popular tailored garment styles from 1850 to 1900, used in theatres and film productions today.

The second volume features a wide range of 19th-century garments, providing information and detailed instructions on the dress coat; dinner jacket; Norfolk jacket; reefer jacket; overcoat; Inverness coat; shoulder cape; shooting, sporting, and dress cape; three-quarter circle cape; pointed and rounded hood; dressing gown; pyjamas; single- and double-breasted evening dress waistcoats with a ‘V’- or ‘U’-shaped neckline; collars and lapels; sleeves; knickerbockers; and waistcoat and trousers for the corpulent figure. Volume 2 features:

• More instructions and a variety of garments for 19th-century menswear
• A brief history of each garment, accompanied by colourful illustrations
• Instructions incorporating both the imperial and metric systems
• Recommendations on choosing the appropriate modern-day equivalent fabric
• Recommendations on the quantity of the fabric
• Recommendations on the button size to make the garment appear more authentic

A Tailoring Guide to Pattern Drafting is intended for anyone with a desire to learn or refine their costume-cutting skills for theatre and film production. The book is aimed at undergraduate and graduate students, tutors, and both amateur and professional makers interested in the subject.

To access the author’s YouTube channel, featuring 130 step-by-step lessons to make a 19th-century morning coat using classical tailoring techniques, visit www.routledge.com/9780367265359.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Katerina Lawton is Senior Lecturer for the BA (Hons) Costume course at the Arts University Bournemouth, a The Queen’s Anniversary Prize winner for Higher and Further Education from 2016 to 2018, and the winner of the silver award for costumes for the 2012 Olympics. She holds a BA (Hons) in Costume, a master’s degree in Tailoring, and a Professional Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) teaching qualification. Katerina is Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). She has worked or made costumes for organisations like the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the National Theatre, the Glyndebourne Opera Theatre, Brownsea Open Air Theatre (BOAT), the Oxford Theatre, the Mayflower Theatre, and the Wessex Museums Partnership.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0367265354
• ISBN 13: 9780367265359
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 224
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania