Product Details:
Spiral-Bound: 48 pages
Product Dimensions:
       8.4 x 6.7 x 0.4 inches
Publisher: Ibexa Press © 2001
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0-9678170-2-1
MSRP: $10.00 USD

Temporarily out of stock

Skirting the Issues
By Dawn Devine and Barry Brown

Skirting the Issues is part of the Costuming Essentials Series of booklets by Dawn Devine. This 48 page booklet is filled with nothing but skirts. From simple panels to complex styles with gores, godets and a host of exciting stylistic features, this booklet provides detailed directions for how to take your own body measurements and use them to design your own unique styles and draft custom patterns.Although designed with the belly dance costumer in mind, the styles featured in this booklet can work for daily wear too! Includes sections on designing for different body types and troupes, detailed directions for sewing casings a yokes as well as resources for ready-made skirts, patterns and a select bibliography. Over a hundred original illustrations compliment the detailed text.

Includes directions for creating popular styles like:

• Full Circle Skirts
• Tiered Skirts
• Flared Skirts
• Panel Skirts
• Godet Skirts
• Gored Skirts
• Skirt Toppers and more…

About the Author - Dawn Devine
Dawn Devine is a costume historian and belly dancer living in California's San Francisco Bay Area. She has been dancing for over fifteen years and has been designing historical costumes nearly all her life.
She has degrees in both Art History and Fashion Design.

For more information visit her website: www.davina.us

This book is currently out of stock and will soon be available in eBook format.  Sign up for our mailing list to receive notice when Style File is available again.  Thanks!  ~ Dawn Devine ~ Davina