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Business
The Entrepreneur's Guide to Sewn Product Manufacturing by Kathleen Fasanella. Here is the information entrepreneurs need to understand the nuts and bolts of fashion manufacturing. Also see:
http://www.fashion-incubator.com
http://www.facebook.com/fashionincubator
http://twitter.com/kfasanella
The New Rules of Marketing & PR by David Meerman Scott. How to use social media, blogs, news releases, online video, and viral marketing to reach buyers directly.
Economics
Small is Beautiful - Economics as if People Mattered by E.F.Schumacher. Published in 1973 this highly influential little book presents the importance of scaling down technology. Laurel's program adheres to these concepts. Must reading for anyone interested in environmental issues.
Children's Book
Based on true stories from her grandmother's life, in Lucky Beans Becky Birtha tells the charming story, set in the Great Depression, of how a young boy wins a treadle sewing machine for his mother, using math to help.
Clothing Care
In Laundry Wisdom, Instructions for a Greener & Cleaner Life Carin Froehich presents extensive information enabling one to successfully and efficiently tackle this never ending job, saving money and minimizing the impact on the environment in the process. Also consider visiting her website.
Color Analysis and Wardrobing
Always in Style with Color Me Beautiful by Doris Pooser. Ms. Pooser proposes Color Flow, which she discovered and developed into 12 seasonal color palettes. Book includes her color charts which explain exactly how this color theory works.
Color Me Beautiful by Carole Jackson. Practical application for women of the German Bauhaus art school Professor Johannes Itten's discovery of the seasonal color palette system, this book has been translated and sold all over the world. Probably the easiest of all personal palette systems to understand.
Color for Men by Carole Jackson. Practical individualist application for men of the German Bauhaus art school Professor Johannes Itten's discovery of the seasonal color palette system, Ms. Jackson's second book is even better than her Color Me Beautiful original, listed above.
Style and the Man by Alan Flusser, noted NYC expert on men's high-end tailoring. Excellent information on impeccable dressing, plus global sourcing men's clothing stores.
The Triumph of Individual Style by Carla Mason Mathis and Helen Villa Connor. Through some of the world's greatest artists this book shows the beauty of all figure types and aspects, and how to conceal or highlight them. .
Women of Color by Darlene Mathis. Excellent book on determining personal color palettes for women of color. |
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Draping
The Art of Fashion Draping by Connie Amaden-Crawford. Step-by-step beautifully illustrated instructions make draping easy to understand. Highly recommended!
DietingThe Beck Diet Solution by Judith S. Beck, Ph.D. Presenting how to train one's brain to think like a thin person, Dr. Judith Beck, uses this new application of Cognitive Therapy to enable her patients to not only loose weight, but to keep it off for good. Dr. Judith Beck wrote the basic textbook on Cognitive Therapy, a therapy which was developed by her father Dr. Aaron T. Beck, the founder of this alternative method to Freudian psychiatry.
Hair
Why are Black Women Losing Their Hair? T he first complete Guide to Healthy Hair by Barry Fletcher, award winning stylist and educator. Although this book's intent is to help black women with their hair, it contains so much information about hair, it is a most helpful hair guide for women of any color.
Patternmaking
Pattern Magic 2 [Paperback] by Tomoko Nakamichi.
Advanced patternmaking that presents technical procedures not covered in most patternbooks. The reader needs to already have good patternmaking skills to benefit from this book. If so, the reader will find these procedures fascinating.
Patternmaking for Fashion Design by Helen Joseph Armstrong. Complete information shows how to use slopers to draft patterns for all types of clothing styles. (Slopers are basic patterns from which patterns for making garments are drafted.) This book is also available in Philadelphia University's Campus Store.
Pattern Drafting & Grading -- Women's and Misses' Garment Design by M. Rohr. Published in 1965, fully diagrammed, it is still one of the best all-inclusive pattern books ever written.
Knitting
Knitting in Plain English by Maggie Righetti. Easy-to-understand basic information every knitter needs to know.
Tatting
Basic Tatting Kit - The Essentials sold at the Zig-Zag Corner Quilts & Baskets LLC - Home of the Tatting Corner in Greenfield, IN 866-949-9294 Outstanding customer service
Web Based Woman's Magazine
Philadelphia Maven, a new, web based women's magazine serving the Philadelphia Area from the New Jersey beaches to Chester and Bucks counties in PA. The magazine covers Beauty, Fashion, Health, and Fitness, etc.
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