Book Review The Wedding Dress

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Your wedding is one of the most important days of your life. You've planned every detail down to the nth degree, but you still cant find The One. No, not your husband-to-be. The dress! The one item of clothing you'll cherish more than any other in your lifetime. So why spend months trawling boutiques, getting flustered by unhelpful sales assistants, when you could design your very own perfect, made-to-measure dress? Professional dressmaker Becky Drinan will guide you through the entire process. You will be given advice on dresses to suit every body shape. You will also be given all the information you need on equipment, fabrics, sewing techniques and how to work from and alter patterns. Finally, youll discover three gorgeous gowns, a lace boler and a selection of veils to make, with accompanying pull-out pattern sheets enclosed in a pocket at the back of the book. You can either follow the step-by-step instructions to the letter in order to create the exact dress (or dresses, why not have more than one on the day?), or you can make changes to the bodice, skirt or sleeves using the techniques explained to make it individual to you. Whichever you choose, with this book youll be in control and soon the proud owner of your very own dream wedding dress.

Publisher: GMC (7 Feb 2014)

ISBN-10: 1861089104

ISBN-13: 978-1861089106

About the Author

Becky Drinan graduated from Wimbledon School of Art having studied Costume Interpretation and has since produced fine costumes for both film and theatre. Now, from her studio in a quite village in Sussex, Becky designs and hand crafts beautiful bespoke gowns and wedding dresses.

                                                                                                                                                    

Contents

Introduction

How to Use this Book

Chapter One

Getting Inspired

Choosing a Dress Style

Good Foundations

Sketching a Design

Choosing Fabric

Embellishment and Jewellery

Chapter Two

Getting Started

Equipment and Materials

Getting Measured Up

How to Use the Patterns

Making a Toile

Preparing your Dress Fabric

Seam Basics

Seam Finishes

Hems

Hand Sewing

Darts

Boning

Fastenings

Corsages

Net Underskirts

Chapter Three

The Bridal Wear

Amelie

Celeste

Florence

Antique Lace Bolero

Choosing and Making a Veil

Glossary

Suppliers

Acknowledgement

Index

                                                                                                                                                     

The Wedding Dress is available from Amazon

isclosure: The lovely people at GMC Group sent me this book to review. I am not being paid for writing this review. All my reviews are honest and on things that I genuinely love and would recommend to my readers.