6. Specific Garment Types
Click on these links to go to sections on :
Jackets, coats
Vests (gilets/ waistcoats)
Tops
Bottoms
Dresses
Accessories
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These are posts on JACKETS, COATS
Fashion parka
Lots of ease and big pockets
More parkas
Notched collar blazer
Turned up collar
Shawl collar blazer
Winter capsule – blazer
Jackets – cascade, revers, asymmetric
New jacket patterns, soft and shapely
Peplum jacket
Avant-garde shapes
Summer jacket – long straight
Many jacket styles for a core wardrobe
Change style by changing jacket
Sources of jacket sewing advice
Easy Jackets – blog with links to unstructured jacket patterns, and to jacket tutorials (in left menu)
Here are my pinterest boards showing the style elements used in :
Jackets / vests / coats
Cardigans
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These are posts on VESTS (gilets/ waistcoats)
Vests for winter 2010
Warm vests
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These are posts on TOPS
Stylish fleeces and hoodies
Sweatshirts
Fleeces and hoodies
Basic comfort styles – pyjamas for loungewear
Oversized tops
The perfect shirt
Knit tops sewalongs
Shirts with band collar sewalongs
Hooked flare – brief
Here are my pinterest boards showing the style elements used in :
Tops
Smocks with yokes
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These are posts on BOTTOMS
Pants/ trousers :
Different pant styles
Pant style and body shape
Pant patterns and body shape
Designer elastic-waist pants
Pyjama pants
Pants/ trousers, jeans, sweat pants – sewalongs
Here are my pinterest boards showing the style elements used in :
Pants / trousers
Jumpsuits (only patterns with sleeves and waist seams)
Skirts :
6-gore skirt
Balloon skirt
Skirt styles
Skirts – written sewalongs – many styles
Skirts – video sewalongs – mainly elastic-waist and pencil skirts, also links to lists of free skirt patterns
Here’s my pinterest board showing skirt style elements :
Skirts
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These are posts on DRESSES
Dungaree dress / overall jumper
Drapes and swathes
Drapey angles and balloons
The silhouettes of dresses are in this pinterest board :
Skirts/dresses
Necklines and sleeves are in this pinterest board :
Tops
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These are posts on ACCESSORIES
Nancy Nix-Rice – basic accessory wardrobe
Accessory styles
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