Pattern Cutting for Menswear

by Gareth Kershaw

Designed for both students and professionals, this book offers a comprehensive guide to patternmaking for menswear from the basic skills through to more advanced techniques. The book includes 20 complete patterns that show how to cut every aspect of the menswear including adaptations from basic slopers through to classic garments and trend-led styles. Using a step-by-step approach, illustrated with accurately sized and scaled flat diagrams, technical flats and fashion illustrations, and photographs of muslins, it explains the theory behind the practice enabling the reader to understand how to cut patterns with confidence. Illustrated throughout, this book contains everything you need to know to make patterns for today’s menswear market.

Genres: Fashion

822 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 7, 2013

Reviews

[Robbo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting book but should really be sub-titled Pattern Cutting for Mensware for the Apparel Industry. This book has all the detail to construct a block (or slopers) but only for one specific size, the industry medium. This is fine if you are constructing garments for the Apparel Industry, but if you are wanting to design blocks for yourself, then this is not the correct book as Kershaw gives no explanation of how he comes up with some of the dimensions he uses, thus adapting the blocks for personal use becomes more of a guessing game than a science, which is unhelpful.

[Adam Colwell · Rating 1 out of 5]

Complete waist of money. The blocks are so basic they are pointless. The arm holes on the Back and Front body block are drafted identical. The same for the shoulder slant. The chest circumference is used from the chest down. The front chest is the same width as the back. I wish I could have gotten my money back.