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Transferring of breast and waist tucks book by Lyudmila Serova
 NEW vol 7. Transfer of breast and waist tucks
basic patterns of women's products with a set-in sleeve book by Lyudmila Serova
vol 5. Basic patterns of products with a set-in sleeve
vol 6. Modeling of collars, design of necks and fasteners  vol 8. Modeling of set-in sleeves

women's
clothing

vol 1. Basic patterns of skirts. Straight, narrowed and extended skirts vol 2. Pleated and tapered skirts vol 3. Skirts are wedged, with flounces, with petals, with draperies vol 4. Trousers

men's
clothing

vol 1. Shirts and underpants vol 2. Trousers vol 3. Denim suit

children's
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vol 1. Underwear vol 2. Light clothing

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This page contains articles and books about fashion, design, and technology tailoring, which, in my opinion, are interesting and informative. This information is for those who strive to achieve mastery.

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Hidden clasp

Fragment of the book "How to sew beautifully" 1990. The technology implementation hidden clasps on products from fine fabrics. Comment by Lyudmila Serova and a photo of a blouse with a hidden clasp.

Bra with a belt for large breasts

Excerpt from the Book G.K.Volevich "Clothing for full women" 1995. Building a drawing and description of sewing a bra with a belt for large breasts.

big chest bra drawing pattern tailoring

Bra and underpants from the book "Home Economics" 1957

In the difficult times of the virus and cheap oil (April 2020), many of my readers are asking for anti-crisis support to publish articles on cutting and sewing from old books. Although I published materials on tailoring bras and cowards, I can offer two more articles from the wonderful book "Home Economics" - a bra with a big tuck and women's underwear.

A large group of authors has set the goal of publishing this book - to provide practical assistance to women in household management: from home and farm hygiene through tailoring and sewing to child care. And also: embroidery, knitting, food preparation for the future, garden, vegetable garden and livestock farming. And for "dessert" - lyrics on 11 pages.

home Economics book cover

Modeling of clothing made of checkered fabrics

Author L.M.Litvina, the book was published in 1976 by publishing house "Light industry". The book describes the features of modeling products made of cellular fabrics. A detailed description of various patterns of cellular fabrics is given. Examples of working with cellular fabrics are given, and the specifics of finishing products are considered. The book is illustrated with a large number of drawings of fabrics and clothing models. The book is intended for women who know how to sew, and can be useful for fashion designers and atelier masters.

download link for the book in PDF format modeling of clothing made of checkered fabrics

modeling clothes from checkered fabrics

Modeling a women's dress made of striped fabric

Author V.N.Kozlov, the book was published in 1961 by the publishing house "Rostehizdat". The book gives a general description of striped fabrics, discusses the principles of modeling these fabrics bodice, skirts and blouses, highlights the composition of women's dresses made of fabrics with different stripes, and techniques of the decorative trim of the dress. The book is intended for readers who are familiar with basic information on design and sewing methods and have mastered the basic professional skills in the field of clothing modeling. The proposed material can be useful for workers in the clothing industry, students of special educational institutions, as well as for readers who have some special training in this field.

Download link for the book in PDF format modeling a women's dress made of striped fabric

modeling a women's dress made of striped fabric

Tips for readers from the book by I. A. Ter-Ovakimyan (1957)

We suggest reading the chapter "Tips for readers" from book Ivan Ter-Ovakimyan "Everyday dress", Cooperative publishing house, Moscow, 1957.

This is not only an excursion to the middle of the 20th century, not only a fragment of the history of fashion, many of the advice of the patriarch of Soviet clothing design is relevant to this day.

Under the guidance of the author of the book, the clothing design Laboratory of "Central research Institute of the garment industry" began developing a "Unified method of clothing design". This method was based on data from mass population measurements conducted in our country since 1956, as well as on the use of a computational and graphical design system.

Young masters. Beach inmagtion and bag-transformer

Two articles from the Appendix "for skillful hands "to the magazine" Young technician " for 1989. Authors I. Mitin, and I. Ilyukhin. How to look original on vacation and the beach. Recommendations of the fashion designer for self-production of beach sets, and also, and how to make a convenient bag-transformer or backpack for walking or a visit to the beach.

Beach inmagtion   folding bag

From the history of gold embroidery And gold embroidery of Nizhny Novgorod region

Fragments of the book Gold embroidery and book N. T.Klimova Folk embroidery of Gorky region

Publications supplemented by photographs of Lyudmila Serova, made in Gorodetsky Museum of local lore, in Gorodetsky tourist complex "City of masters", as well as in showroom "Gorodetskaya gold embroidery"

shawl gold embroidery    shawl gold embroidery

The French about elegance and Elegant dresses

Article N. Arshavskaya and D. Glagolev's article from "Fashion magazine 2/1967.Drawings by V.Zaitsev

fashion magazine in 1967

Basic drawings of bras

Fragment from the book "WOMEN's BEACH COSTUMES", the team of authors under the editorship of I.A.Ter-Hovakimyan, 1959.
Comments of Lyudmila Serova are given.

Basic drawings of bras

Bra with front closure

Article by G. Savitskaya in the Appendix to the magazine "Rabotnitsa" №7 for 1970. To the article comments Ludmila Serova on the use of ready-made patterns of specific articles from journals.

Bra with front closure

Style and fashion. Fashion for the elderly

Part of "Style and fashion" from the book by E.A.Yanchevskaya, A.E.Rybkin "Fashion for elderly women" Legprombytizdat, 1993. General recommendations on the choice of clothing for elderly women.

fashion for elderly women

Women's panties

After the publication on the website of the article on the design and tailoring of men's panties there was a large number of requests on this topic, including designing women's panties and knickers. Many readers request these data from the Soviet books, believing, probably, that in old books it is possible to find simple drawings and simple sewing technology.

Offer readers a selection of examples of design and tailoring of women's panties from old books. In my personal practice and in teaching these drawings I did not use.

Lingerie items

a fragment of the book "women's crafts" N.Novgorod, 1993, compiled S.Popova. For modern masters a few old techniques for finishing lingerie.

Lingerie items

How to lengthen coat

Article with pictures by S.Tabunova from the FASHION magazine №3 for 1971. The article provides tips designers macevoy and A. Kozlovska to update the silhouette of a female coat. Speaking of modern the language is urgent anti-crisis proposal.

How to lengthen coat

Clothes for home

Article T.Ksenofontova from "FASHION magazine" №3 1971. The article gives advice to the fashion designer on the choice of models of home clothes. Many women do not give due importance to what should be worn at home in their free time. Carefully watching the cleanliness of the apartment, blowing dust off the furniture, they prefer to walk in the old, out of fashion dress is not the first freshness, in curlers and flip-flops... 45 years have passed, but many things are relevant.

Make yourself a turban

Article (author not listed) from "FASHION magazine" 1971. The article offers five ways to perform a turban. Turban combines a headdress and a hairstyle at the same time. Easy movement of hands at minimal cost turban allows you to change the appearance, to give originality to its appearance.

Make yourself a turban

The costume of a lifetime

Article by Alexander Khilkevich (ATELIER magazine № 1/2002) about Alexander Danilovich Igmand, famous Soviet and Russian fashion designer, artistic director of the "All-Union house of models". Among other publications of Igmand, article Khilkevich stands out in that it briefly, but succinctly, the history of the master is stated, and his creative position is transferred.

Alexander Danilovich Igmand

The great secret of dressing to face

Article by Tatyana Zabozlaev published in magazine STYLE 4/1990. The article gives an overview of the fashion Department of the magazine "Contemporary" for 1847-1857 years. The name of the magazine - "Contemporary" - creates a very definite image: mid-19th century, the so-called heterogeneous period of our history, polemic articles N.Chernyshevsky and N.Dobrolyubova, magazine published by Nekrasov and Panaev - the heart of the revolutionary democratic movement of Russia. Nekrasov's friend and colleague - Ivan Panaev, a regular of social events and a connoisseur of gossip, easy people, the swift and nimble reporter, writer highly educated and sharp on the tongue, took the fun job of leading the fashion Department. More than ten years existed in the magazine this Department with the unchanged Paris picture as an application, which, of course, was a kind of decoy for a certain part of readers editions. The article will be interesting for those who study the history of fashion in Russia in 19 century.

 Ivan Panaev

Folk embroidery of the Gorky region (Gorky guipure)

Author N.T.Klimova, the book was published in 1983 by Volgo-Vyatsky book publishing house. Gorky guipure is a through embroidery with amazing the beauty and diversity of the ornament, as well as the white line, Gorky guipure is performed for podernuta on fabric grid only extended to one centimeter in size rectangular cells. The peculiarity of the Gorky guipure is also that a certain type of seam has a significant impact on the nature of ornamental forms-their the shape and texture. A fragment of the book contains a story about Gorky guipure: history and development of fisheries, master, achievement, artistic techniques , photos of works. Link to download a fragment of the book in PDF format Gorky guipure

Folk embroidery of the Gorky region (Gorky guipure)

From the history of Soviet costume

Author Tatiana Konstantinovna Strizhenova, book published in 1972 by the publishing house "Soviet artist". The book contains a wealth of material on the formation and development of Soviet costume art in the 20 years of the 20th century. It was in those years that the principles of the new costume were formed, genius ones were born in its foresight projects mass forms of clothing, outlined specific ways introduction of creative standards in mass industrial production. Brilliant creativity pioneers of the new costume-Nadezhda Lomanova, Vera Mukhina, Alexandra Exter, Lyubov Popova, Varvara Stepanova, Nadezhda Makarova, very different according to their personalities, but unanimously striving for a common goal, laid solid Foundation of the theory and practice of Soviet modeling. Link to download the book in PDF format From the history of Soviet costume

From the history of Soviet costume

Modeling of dress code

Author G. S. Gorina. Describes the creative process of creation clothes, fashion and modification of forms of costume, of harmony as the principle of creating artistic integrity, composition and compositional means. Figure a person is considered as an object of composition and modeling of forms of costume. The connection between form and movement is shown. The value of the graphical analysis of the form and image of the suit, the problems of compositional analysis are solved suit's. The book was published in 1982 by the publishing house "Light and food industry". One of the best books on modeling and composition costume. Link to download the book in PDF format Modeling of dress code

Modeling of dress code

Artistic darning

Author V.M.Korneeva. Simple and accessible set out about the fibers, yarn, fabrics, weaving weaves. Popular about fabric defects. Download the book in PDF format Artistic darning

Artistic darning

Modeling and decoration of fur hats

Authors: I.A.Tsepkin, V.A.Nikolaevskaya. Section from the book "Modeling and decoration of fur clothing". Book published in 1973 by the publishing house "Light industry". The book outlines the main questions of modeling and decoration of fur clothing and headwear hats for women, men, children of different ages. Link to download the 10th chapter of the book in PDF format Modeling and decoration of fur hats

Soviet costume for 50 years - part 1

Authors T.Strizhenova and S.Timerin. The article is published in appendix to the Journal MOD No.3, 1967, Moscow. The first part of the article presents the history of fashion development in the USSR from 1917 to 1941.

Soviet costume for 50 years-part 1

Soviet costume for 50 years - part 2

Authors T.Strizhenova and S.Timerin. The article is published in appendix to the Journal MOD No. 4, 1967, Moscow. The second part describes the history of fashion development in the USSR from 1945 to 1967.

Soviet costume for 50 years - part 2 

About Thekla Gorelenkova

Author A.F.Blanc. The article is published in fashion Magazine №3 1973. Article about talented student N.P.Lamanova, who worked for many years as a fashion designer in all-Union fashion House (ODMO). This year marks the 120th anniversary of birthday of the artist. In the article, the models are published., the drawings which were made by V.M.Zaitsev.

Cutting women's dresses

Authors A.F.Blanc and F.A.Gorelenkova. The book was published in 1956, the publishing house Gisleham. Link to download the book in PDF format Cutting women's dresses

Clothing models discussed in the book, developed by Gorelenkova. The book will be of interest to those who study history designing and modeling clothes in our country, as well as for fashion designers, creating a historical costume.

Cutting women's dresses

Pleated and ripple

Author J.I.Vital. The book was published in 1963 in "State publishing house of local industry and art crafts". Link to download the book in PDF format Pleated and ripple

Pleated and ripple

Pleats and corrugations are the kinds of finishes that will never come out of fashion, will change only the way we use them. Pleated skirts, ruffles, inserts decorate and diversify a suit, successfully combine with many styles and suitable for almost all ages. Now this kind of decoration of women's dresses especially common.

The purpose of our brochure is to help women pleat and crimp fabrics at home. This process is simple, but requires some patience, accuracy and accurate implementation of our instructions.

Art of color

the book by Johannes Itten is dedicated to the important for the fashion designer topics-the laws and rules of objective nature and subjective assessment of color. Link to download the book in PDF format Johannes Itten.

Johannes Itten Art of color

Author analyzes the color effect in detail and subjective attitude to color, color harmony and contrasts of color comparisons. The book describes the techniques of color design, color mixing and creation of color harmony. The theoretical bases of spatial influence are considered colors, color impressions and color expressiveness. Familiarity with this book will be useful for fashion designers.

Modeling clothes according to the laws of visual perception

Author S.N.Belyaeva-Exemlajrskaj (1895—1973) - soviet psychologist, candidate of pedagogical Sciences. Link to download the book in PDF format Modeling clothes according to the laws of visual perception

Modeling clothes according to the laws of visual perception

Book by S.N.Belyaeva-Exemlajrskaj is the primary source of almost all textbooks on the composition of the costume, published in Russian. The book was published in 1934 and only in 1996 by the Academy fashion" was executed reprint of this book.

this scientific work is of great applied importance for modeling clothes. Familiarization with this book and further serious study of this book it is necessary for everyone who is professionally engaged in the creation of clothing.

From the piece of fabric

Editorial published in annex to the 1976 FASHION Magazine, illustrated magazine of clothing culture of the Ministry of light industry of the USSR

How to become a fashion designer

Author D.P. Glagolev, teacher of the composition Department of the Moscow technological Institute of light industry, the article is published in the Appendix to the FASHION Magazine no. 4 1974-75, Moscow.

fashion designer's Reflections on the cut of clothing

Author D.P. Glagolev, teacher of the composition Department of the Moscow technological Institute of light industry, the article is published in the Appendix to the FASHION Magazine no. 1 1971, Moscow.

Legacy of the iron suit

Author D.P. Glagolev, teacher of the composition Department of the Moscow technological Institute of light industry, the article is published in the Appendix to the FASHION Magazine no. 4 1987, Moscow.

Artist and industry

Author D.P. Glagolev, teacher of the composition Department of the Moscow technological Institute of light industry , the article is published in the Appendix to the FASHION Magazine no. 3 1971, Moscow.

Russian calico

Author Maria Nikolaevna Mertsalova, a well-known expert on costume, candidate of art history, article published in the Appendix to the Magazine MOD No. 2, 1967, Moscow.

 articles by Maria Mertsalova on the website 
	of the author's school courses of cutting and sewing by Lyudmila Serova

Cut history

Author Maria Nikolaevna Mertsalova, a well-known expert on costume, candidate of art history, article published in the Appendix to the Magazine MOD #1 1967, Moscow.

Mertsalova history of cut article 
	on the website of the author's school of cut and sewing Lyudmila Serova

Dictionary of historical clothing terms

Author Maria Nikolaevna Mertsalova, a well-known costume specialist, PhD in art history.

Characteristics of clothing design methods

edited by Alexander Dotsenko, the article was published in the magazine" fashion Technology " # 2 in 2002.

 article Methods of designing 
	clothing on the website of the author's school courses of cutting and sewing by Lyudmila Serova

Missing link

Author Svetlana E. Chupakhina, article published in the magazine "fashion Technology" # 3 for 2002.

Anthropometry against cardboard patterns

Authors Boris Ovechkin, Olga Promptova, Lyudmila Serova, article published in the magazine "Clothing and textiles" # 9 for 2003.

Color awareness

Author Oksana Novikova, article published in the magazine " Clothing and textile" No. 9 for the year 2003.

what is worn in Paris

Author Olga Golushko, article published in the magazine " Clothing and textile" No. 9 for the year 2003.

Shirts. Manual Assembly

Interview of Elena Zharova with Pavel Kotin, Director of Bos Bison, published in "Fashion magazin" November 2002.

Fabric flower making

How do I make a flower out of fabric? An interesting fragment from an old (1960) books by Gorky authors Illariya Nikolaevna Belyaeva and Nikolay Nikolaevich Vladimirova "Cutting and sewing of women's dresses". Belyaeva co-authored with Vladimirov in 50-70 years published several books on cut and technology for individual tailoring. These books successfully combine high design idea with an accessible presentation of the material. Although described in books, the basic patterns are outdated, the modern reader can learn from them brilliant design ideas. The sewing technology described in the books is in many ways it is not outdated yet.

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