Tailoring a Woman's Jacket

by Laurel Hoffmann, Andrew Hoffmann (Editor)

Overview

Use Tailoring a Woman's Jacket with any jacket pattern that fits. Tailoring a Woman's Jacket provides the information you need to produce professional-level, quality suit jackets and coats. Learning these skills enables the production of professional-level quality jackets and coats that look great and fit well.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798317657550
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	04/28/2025
Series:	Contemporary Fashion Education
Pages:	326
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Trained by three different European master tailors, by the layout artist when working in high-end wedding couture, and by the top grader in Philadelphia, Laurel rose to the level of production pattern maker, preparing the work for and overseeing factory production in just three years.

When the industry was going offshore back in the seventies, she decided to write down the skills she had learned, eventually resulting in her being hired to teach fashion techniques in the Philadelphia universities’ fashion program.

Her books present, hands-on, the industrial techniques now provided on computers, that students need to know to understand what the computer is doing. Her step-by-step instructions and diagrams make it possible, even for novices, to draft, fit, and grade without computer assistance, and to produce quality clothing with minimal equipment. Developed in the USA during the first and second World Wars, these are the procedures now used throughout the global fashion industry.

Editorial Reviews

I have been sewing for over 50 years, mostly clothing for myself, and as of late, quilts and household projects. I am a self-taught, avid home sewer, and have bought many books on sewing and fitting over the years. I have not sewn with Big 4 commercial patterns for the last 10 years or so because fitting has become so difficult with age. I discovered Laurel Hoffman through a Youtube video, "How to Trace a Home-Sewing Pattern" after deciding to give commercial Big 4 patterns a go again.

https://laurelhoffmann.com/product/tailoring-a-womans-jacket/ - Beth B.