What the industry is saying about the books:


Apparel Magazine, in its October 2003 Product News section wrote: ...The books demonstrate how the various disciplines are interwoven in producing the product, as well as the importance of considering the production process when designing a garment. The books emphasize the foresight required to produce and/or adapt patterns so they will work with the chosen sewing techniques....www.apparelmagazine.com


Industry approved!

Review of the program, published in the current issue of Fashion Technology Magazine.
(1.53mb) Learning to Design Garments That Really Fit Real People
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Drafting & Fitting Pants and Skirts and Fitting Pants and Skirts are recommended as two of the world's best fashion reference books by the international, high-end, fashion trade papers, Inside Fashion, Fashion Reail Magazine, and Fashion Technology Magazine.
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Eric Shurtleff, an industry consultant, wrote two editorials for Apparel Magazine, - a USA fashion/fabric trade magazine - in 2000 and 2003. The first set forth the problems the fashion industry has with finding qualified technical designers (production patternmakers who work on a computer). The second presented possible solutions. Mr. Shurtleff wrote: .. [Laurel's program] provides many of the skills needed by technical designers in the industry. Hoffman's concept, with minor tweaking, might prove to be the ideal model for the institutional version of technical designer training. - Apparel, February 2003, Still Wanted: Truly Competent Technical Designers, pages 44-46.



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