Registration link. Registration is open for fall classes. Please register as soon as possible.
To register by phone please call 215 895 2154. To access the fall 2009 schedule and registration information, including paying by credit card on-line, please hit the link above. Textbook information is below.

Fashion Engineering Continual classroom testing ensures that the materials work and can be understood. Students draft in class, sew at home. All work is demonstrated.

Teffani Dupont studies her textbook before continuing with her drafting. The textbooks, written for and tested in this program, contain step-by-step instructions and are fully diagrammed.

Students can purchase their textbooks from Contemporary Fashion Education, Inc., 215 884 7065 by check or credit card. Books are brought into the classroom the first day of class. If requested, books will be shipped. NO course books are available for student purchase until enough students have registered for the course to run. Students must order the books in order to have their books the first day of class.

Drafting & Fitting Pants and Skirts and Sewing Pants and Skirts (2 book set) $90, student price.
Design Room Techniques $65, student price.

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Laurel Teaching Fit (Grade-Rule)

This course, Fitting Home Sewing Patterns (Grading to Fit) starts in January.
Learning grade-rule procedures enable one to grade home sewing patterns to fit.

Laurel fits Cheryl Johnson's bodice sloper. Cheryl is learning how to develop personal slopers (slopers are basic patterns from which patterns are drafted that are used to make garments) to enable her to grade home sewing patterns to fit. Laurel demonstrated these procedures - how to use home sewing patterns effectively - at the Association of Sewing and Design Professionals' 15th Annual National Educational Conference this last October. Please hit the Association link if you would like more information about the Association. Please hit the course link if you would like more information about this course and the pants drafting course, to be offered starting January 2009, as well as the courses that are offered in Spring, right after Easter.

Learn How to Make a Basic Skirt

Included in the Drafting & Fitting Pants and Skirts course,
learning how to draft a basic skirt pattern can expand one's wardrobe significantly.

 

Laurel models the sweater set she knit this summer. With it she wears a gray skirt, cut from her skirt sloper. (Slopers are basic patterns from which patterns are drafted that are used to make garments.) Students who take the pant course, offered this January 09, will first draft a skirt sloper from which they will then draft their pant slopers and pant patterns. Having a skirt sloper that fits enables easy construction of skirts that compliment other clothing in one's wardrobe. Registration link.

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