This is a new edition of a classic title from the Batsford fashion list. With close to 1000 different fashion details, this is the ultimate resource for fashion designers. This new updated and expanded edition covers fashion details from belts and bows to hemlines, necklines through to sleeves, tucks and waistbands. The details span all decades of the 20th and 21st centuries with extra feature illustrations of whole outfits from key periods to give context to certain details, from 1920s flapper outfits to bell-bottoms of the 1960s.

The full range of details are: Belts; Bias cut; Bows; Collars; Cuffs; Drapes; Drawstrings; Embroidery and Applique; Fasteners and Fastenings; Frills and Flounces; Gathers; Hemlines; Insertions; Jabot; Knit; Necklines; Pleats; Pockets; Rouleau; Seams; Shirring; Sleeves; Smocking; Trousers; Tucks; Vents and Slits; Waistbands; Yokes.These details can be used for designs of clothes for women, men and children. It includes close to 1000 fashion details and effects to help when designing. It is a newly revised and expanded classic fashion title. It includes fashion details from all decades of the 20th and 21st centuries. It features drawings of key period looks, from 1920s to 1990s.

Author Biography

Patrick John Ireland is a member of Britain's Chartered Society of Designers. He has been a fashion designer, illustrator and lecturer organizing fashion workshops for students and lecturers of fashion. He has also been a visiting lecturer at many colleges throughout the country, including the London College of Fashion. He is the author of several fashion books for Batsford including Figure Templates for Fashion Illustration (9780713485721). Patrick lives in Buckinghamshire.