Vintage Swimwear: Historical Dressmaking Patterns and Techniques

Another great reference book from Jill Salen. Wonderful historic research and the photo's are just right.If you do try any of the patterns, I recommend you ensure you have enough fabric to try 3-4 mock up's. In my manufacturing experience it is very important to establish the pattern fit to the specific stretch fabric. Not all stretch fabrics give the same fit, so you will be cutting a pattern for your fabric.

boring

This was a gift and the recipient was delighted. Several designs have already been made.

A slim book - but full of large pictures & diagrams of period swimwear. Clear text. I wish there was more of it!

Lovely items inside... But no instructions on how to enlarge patterns??? Tutor in college couldn't understand the information given either.

good range of patterns. simple enough to draft up. would recommend for someone experienced in pattern drafting rather then a beginner

I can't wait to create something from this lovely, technical book .It is well illustrated and clear and concise...the perfect addition to my collection

as always from Jill, brilliant little book

Come "Vintage Lingerie" dello stesso autore, il libro presenta vari modelli di costumi da bagno da uomo e da donna da fine '800 agli anni '70, per ogni modello c'è una descrizione dei materiali e un paio di foto, seguiti dal cartamodello su carta millimetrata. Alla fine, due "progetti" di due costumi, uno anni '20 e uno anni '50, con indicazioni dettagliate sulla costruzione e cartamodello.

Es un libro precioso y muy útil en cuanto a la historia. Los patrones están bien, con pocos datos para sacarlos, pero muy útiles, la verdad. Me ha gustado mucho, aunque está más orientado como herramienta para conocer la evolución del bañador, que como libro de patrones.

Grosse déception sur la commande, nulle part il n'est écrit que c'est un livre d'occasion. Malgré le bon emballage Amazon, le livre est abîmé sur les coins, les pages sont jaunies, la couverture est sale...Le livre en lui même est intéressant bien que redondante. Beaucoup de fois le "même modèle" dans des variantes qui ne mérite pas des page complète dessus. Au final peu de modèle et peu d'histoire du modèle... Bref si vous chercher un livre qui survole l'histoire et survole la fabrication c'est sur c'est celui la ...

Il libro è interessante, e molto storico. Mi aspettavo qualcosa diversa piu vintage riportato allo moderno pero è piutosto storico e anche mi aspetavo piú spiegazioni sul come fare il carta modello. Ma comunque interessante. Il titolo del libro forse dovrebbe essere altro....

Ich kenne ja schon die beiden anderen Werke über Unterwäsche und Korsetts. Allerdings muss ich sagen das ich den Modellen in dem hier wenig abgewinnen konnte. Das schönste ist tatsächlich das, welches auf dem Cover abgebildet ist. Hatte mir da tatsächlich mehr Erhofft. Auch find ich die Patterns etwas Konfus diesmal.

Gutes Buch, schöne Inhalte und Bilder. Ich hoffe solche Bücher gibt es bald mit noch mehr Schnitten und ausführlicheren Beschreibungen.

Fidèle au style de cette série de livres nous donnant des patronnages d'époque, nous retrouvons ici de quoi nous occuper un bon moment. Nouveauté intéressante, on trouve plusieurs modèles masculins à la fin du livre.

è un libro molto interessante e molto dettagliato in certi particolari, peccato che manchino totalmente le foto del retro dei modelli analizzati, è una grave pecca visto che interpretare un cartamodello non è mai facile e le foto del retro sono fondamentali.nonostante questo è un buon libro in quanto analizza una buona varietà di modelli e di epoche.

Un livre bien fait et intéressant, c'est seulement dommage qu'il n'y ait pas plus de modèles.

The book is not very in-depth, doesn't have that many detailed photos of the styles shown in the book. The patterns are also completely useless, those pages could've been used to provide more detailed photos of each piece or include more vintage swimwear! There are also a few grammatical mistakes that should be corrected in next editions.It's still a nice book to have for inspiration but not useful for much else. The author also does a terrible job of describing the swimwear and there are VERY FEW pictures of women and men of the times wearing vintage swimwear. I'm sure I could do a Google search and find more photos than were published in the book. Even Vintage Dancer has more information, images, and historical than the book did.

This is a great resource if you are interested in retro sewing. My daughter has done similar adaptations to current patterns and I wish this had been available then. It comes with patterns to the suits but most of them you will have to upside since they are just on graph paper but not to scale.

Fantastic book with great, clear pictures and patterns you can enlarge. The pictures are awesome and the info on each outfit is also very helpful. This book is really inspiring and I can't wait to start sewing some of these. I would recommend this book to other seamstresses interested in creating vintage swimwear.

Interesting historically but the drawings are not professional.

Ohhh! Can’t wait to have some of these Made for me!

It is a cool book, but the instructions for every pattern are not there and you need to know how to draw your own pattern from a 1/4 scale.