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Get clothes to fit and flatter your figure instantly, using your own body measurements of the bust, hip, waist and underarm. Draft up a miniature chart to full scale to make a paper pattern using the Haslam Curve. Using the straight and curved lines and dots on the Haslam Curve and using your own body measurements, plot your measurements onto the dressmaking paper and then join the dots up to create your own personalised paper pattern unique to you. Create any sewing pattern in the Haslam System to your own sizing. With men's, women's, teenager's and children's miniature drafting charts. Written with full instructions on how to draft a miniature chart to full size in the Dress Foundation Edition One. Helpful hints and tips on the making of each garment are enclosed in each book. This Volume is filled with miniature scaled drafting charts for you to enjoy with colour and black and white illustrations. There is the Illustrated Book of Draftings for Lingerie No.11 Illustrated Book of Draftings No. 9, Spring / Summer No.12, Spring / Summer No.17, Autumn / Winter No.27, Autumn / Winter No.28. The Haslam Curve, The Practical Guide to Dressmaking and Railoring Edition 12, and The Dress Foundation Edition One. In these books there are nightdresses, shortie's, pyjamas, men's pyjamas, long and short sleeved blouses, long and short skirts, dressing gowns, dressing jackets, house gowns, underwear, full slips, French knickers, blouses and skirts, maternity wear, slacks, draftings, long and short dresses, coats, costume coats, long and short evening dresses, long and short jackets and coats, capes and various sleeves, collars and jabots, girl's evening dress, children's pages, four and six gore skirts, suits, two-piece suit dresses and coats, flapper dresses, dungarees, costume swagger coat, tennis skirts, beach wear, sleeves, costume coats, raglan coat and hood, long sleeved dresses, two-piece suits and jackets, a suit and a bolero, evening wear. For the hobbyist, serious seamstress, children, housewife, tailor, university student, fashion student, designer.  Vintage historical fashions and pattern making from the early 1920 through to the 1950's  This is the first in a series of editions.

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