Pattern Cutting for Menswear, Paperback

Pattern Cutting for Menswear is a comprehensive guide to cutting patterns, from basic skills to advanced techniques. With over twenty complete patterns, including new jacket and trouser styles, this revised edition features additional sections on the leg stride relationship in the development of certain trouser styles, fabric properties and their effect on cut and drape, fitting techniques for structured jackets, and the latest information on pattern CAD-based technologies. The step-by-step approach, complete with scaled diagrams and technical flats, fashion illustrations and photographs of toiles, enables you to cut patterns with confidence.

About author(s):Gareth Kershaw is Associate Lecturer at the School of Fashion and Textiles at RMIT University, Melbourne. Previously he was a Senior Lecturer within the Department of Apparel, Manchester Metropolitan University and he has given classes and workshops on menswear design internationally.