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Vintage aprons and modern designs are turning up in movies, magazine spreads, upscale shops, and hip retail venues like Anthropologie, whose trendy line of aprons is selling as fast as they can stock them. The Apron Book is an infectiously enthusiastic guide to aprons, old and new, that are suddenly everywhere.

Aprons take us back to our favorite place¿hearth and home. Vintage aprons help us remember home and family the way they used to be, while bright and sassy contemporary aprons confirm that nesting is all the rage. Actress and trendsetter Julia Roberts has a closetful of vintage aprons. Celebrity custom-made apron auctions have become an annual event for several popular charities in the past few years.

The Apron Book provides full-color photos of new and vintage aprons from the author's collection, patterns for four basic apron styles and myriad variations, recipes, tips on collecting and preserving vintage aprons, and heart-tugging stories from the author's traveling apron exhibit. The book also explores the heyday of aprons and looks at the various roles aprons still play when worn in the kitchen, around the house, by the backyard grill, on the job, and for special occasions.

Warm and inviting¿but like an apron quite practical!¿this book is a celebration of a great American icon and reminds us of what we loved about the people who wore them..
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Aimed at girls six to ten, this book introduces children to basic good manners, explaining the "whys" as well as the "hows" and stressing a loving attitude over simply following rules. Like "Let's Have a Tea Party", this book is written from the point of view of Emilie Marie, a little girl who is basically Emilie as a child--passing along information Emilie has learned as an adult ..
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This text combines step-by-step instructions illustrated to present the principles and
methods of draping Author Helen Joseph-Armstrong incorporates three draping techniques
manipulating dart excess, adding fullness, and contour draping in design
projects featured throughout the text. Projects begin with a draping plan and fashion
drawing to identify its creative elements, and determine the draping technique required.
The author describes the drape of the basic dress and its relationship to every garment in
a clothing collection, emphasizing the drape of foundation garments as a base to building
more complex design..
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The "fabulously fun"* fashionista/sleuth Lacey Smithsonian is back in the case of a food editor who may have given her holiday sweater-hating coworker her just desserts ...
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A practical, no nonsense guide to assist those who would like to begin their own sewn products business, explaining many of the pitfalls that they can now avoid..
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A celebrity fashion designer gives every woman the red-carpet treatment in this foolproof guide to choosing clothes that make you look fabulous—with tailor-made tips for forty- eight body types.

From Oprah to Eva Longoria, top L.A. designer Bradley Bayou has dressed women of all shapes and sizes and knows that every woman has her own natural combination of silhouette shape, height, and weight. Style is not about fitting into the size you think is sexy, it is about picking clothes that fit your body correctly and that create balance.

In The Science of Sexy, Bayou helps readers identify their silhouette shape (triangle, inverted triangle, rectangle, or hourglass) and combines that information with a height/weight chart to determine which of the forty-eight “fitting rooms” to go to in the book. Each fitting room has Bradley’s specific advice on the clothes and accessories to wear and avoid, and how to create balance using color, scale, proportions, and fabric..
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This book is about decorative apparel printing by digital press. The $22-billion garment printing business is going through a rapid change thanks to the exciting new digital technology. The authors give a comprehensive overview of the industry's past, present and future, and explain how to adopt the new technology and profit from it. Garment decorators and entrepreneurs alike will benefit enormously by taking advantage of the new digital printers, a.k.a. T-shirt Printers.
The authors are twenty-year veterans of the industry and experts in inkjet technology. They introduced the digital revolution to the sign and screen printing industry nearly a quarter-century ago. Now they are leading the way in digitally transforming the apparel textile printing process. This book is a comprehensive and indispensable reference guide for anyone considering digital garment decoration..
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For introductory fashion courses focusing on apparel evaluation, design, production, and merchandising Taking a product development approach, this text provides beginning fashion merchandising students with an understanding of the mass production process of ready-to-wear apparel, and the objective evaluation of its cost and quality. Coverage of practical issues, industry methods and processes, along with the related vocabulary, prepares students to think, act, and talk like a professional in the fashion industry..
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