Girl’s Guide to DIY Fashion

Author: Rachel Low
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1607059967
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 227

Book Description
Give your resident young designer all the tools she needs to create five cute outfits that will take her from home to school to hanging out and back again. From the owner of the NYC sewing studio Pins & Needles comes the definitive guide to mood boards, fashion design, and sewing for girls. The book encourages tweens and teens to sketch their own designs as a way to experiment with color, fabrics, and styles. From sweatshirts and sneakers to jeggings and tights, girls will easily learn how to create hip, trendy outfits and accessories and put their own unique stamp on everything they wear.

Girl's Guide to DIY Fashion

Author: Rachel Low
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dress accessories
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description

DIY Style

Author: Karen Cooper
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781903434482
Category : Fashion
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
Here's the ultimate, HIP guide for girls to creating and customising one of a kind, Cool and Original stuff for themselves and their friends - from clothes, gifts and beauty products to edible treats and 'changing room' bedroom makeover suggestions. Includes recipes for homemade beauty lotions and potions, soap, face masks et al. How to snip, sew and stick their way to the latest looks. Discovering vintage and retro fashion looks plus how to personalise their space at home. Encourages individuality, independence and money saving Perfect for budding design divas with more dash than cash Includes DIY difficulty ratings, time-saving tips and reviews by girls themselves.

The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

Author: Melissa Bank
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141909633
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218

Book Description
Generous-hearted and wickedly insightful, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing is the New York Times bestselling novel by Melissa Bank The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing maps the progress of Jane Rosenal as she sets out on a personal and spirited expedition through the perilous terrain of sex, love, relationships, and the treacherous waters of the workplace. Soon Jane is swept off her feet by an older man and into a Fitzgeraldesque whirl of cocktail parties, country houses, and rules that were made to be broken, but comes to realise that it's a world where the stakes are much too high for comfort. With an unforgettable comic touch, Bank skilfully teases out universal issues, puts a clever new spin on the mating dance, and captures in perfect pitch what it's like to come of age as a young woman. 'This chronicle of a New Yorker's relationships has a wit and perceptiveness that singles it out from the crowd' Guardian 'As hilarious as Girls' Guide is, there's a wise, serious core here' Wall Street Journal 'A sexy, pour-your-heart-out, champagne tingle of a read-thoughtful, wise, and tell-all honest. Bank's is a voice that you'll remember' Cosmopolitan

#OOTD (Outfit of the Day) Sew & Style

Author: Angela Lan
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1617451371
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
Fourteen-year-old fashion designer Angela Lan of lovespunk.com teaches 12–16 year olds to design their own wardrobes from 6 classic looks! This in-depth guide shares garment-sewing basics, from choosing the right fabric to installing zippers, for a professional, store-bought finish. Encouraging girls to find and sew their perfect style, Angela helps readers build their skills through 6 versatile clothing patterns and 4 altered fashions to show how easy it is to change up basic pieces for a totally different look! #OOTD (Outfit of the Day) is ideal for avid DIYers and beginning garment sewists looking to try something new.

Style and the Successful Girl

Author: Gretta Monahan
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1592407943
Category : Beauty, Personal
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
Offers an approach for dressing for success, explaining how to select the proper undergarments, choose accessories, and develop a work and leisure wardrobe that communicates confidence and personal style.

How to Get Dressed

Author: Alison Freer
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
ISBN: 1607747073
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
Costume designer Alison Freer’s styling kit is a magical bag of tricks, built to solve every single wardrobe malfunction on earth. TV and film productions wait for nothing, so her solutions have to work fast. In How to Get Dressed, Alison distills her secrets into a fun, comprehensive style guide focused on rethinking your wardrobe like a fashion expert and making what’s in your closet work for you. She provides real-world advice about everything style-related, including: • Making every garment you own fit better • Mastering closet organization • The undergarments you actually need • The scoop on tailors and which alterations are worth it • Shopping thrift and vintage like a rockstar Instead of repeating boring style “rules,” Alison breaks the rules and gets real about everything from bras to how to deal with inevitable fashion disasters. Including helpful information such as how to skip ironing and the dry cleaners, remove every stain under the sun, and help clueless men get their sartorial acts together, How to Get Dressed has hundreds of insider tips from Alison’s arsenal of tools and expertise.

The Bust DIY Guide to Life

Author: Laurie Henzel
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1480494712
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 368

Book Description
Get the know-how to do it yourself: “This lifestyle manual will come in handy when you need anything from a headache remedy to a dirt-cheap wedding.” —Entertainment Weekly The modern appeal of “do-it-yourself” projects has a broader reach than ever. And who better to teach us how to DIY our lives than the über-crafty editors of BUST, the quirky, raw, and real magazine “for women who have something to get off their chests”? In The BUST DIY Guide to Life, magazine founders Debbie Stoller (of Stitch ’n Bitch fame) and Laurie Henzel have culled more than 250 of the best DIY and craft projects from its 15-year history. Organized by category—beauty and health, fashion, food and entertaining, career, finance, travel, and sex—and written in BUST’s trademark brazen and witty style, this quintessential DIY encyclopedia from the quintessential DIY magazine is eclectic, empowering, hilarious, and downright practical, truly capturing the spirit of women today.

DIY Guide to Tie Dye Style

Author: Sam Spendlove
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1644031566
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Book Description
Go beyond the basic t-shirt with this go-to guide for tie-dye success—includes twenty projects including loungewear, home décor, and more! Take tie dye to the next level with this in-depth visual guide! Beginners and those looking for new ideas and inspiration can find everything they need to know for all things tie dye in an easy-to-follow step-by-step format. Capture bursts of color in intricate waves and patterns with expert tips from the women behind The Pretty Life Girls website, who show you how to: Move beyond the basics with tie-dye swimsuits, wall art, socks, shoes, pillows, and much more Start simple with standard binding patterns, and then build to more advanced techniques Create twenty projects with step-by-step instructions Learn more advanced techniques such as reverse tie-dye, ice dyeing, and more

How to Be a Fashion Designer

Author: Lesley Ware
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1465476180
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
"Highly recommended for any aspiring fashionistas." – School Library Journal Design, style, and accessorize clothes with this fun guide full of practical fashion design ideas for kids! Draw and color creations, choose materials, and learn to design through drawing your own fashion. Packed with practical tips and inspiration, children can enjoy experimenting with new ideas. Illustrations mixed with photography show kids how to choose gorgeous colors, design dress shapes, customize T-shirts, design a bag, pick a color palette, design with texture, and add sparkle to their accessories in simple, easy-to-follow design tasks and simple practical projects. Using inspiration from the natural world, everyday life, and their own imagination, children can design outfits from scratch and learn how to put together the clothes and accessories they already own in fun, stylish ways. Contents support the STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math) approach to cross-curricular learning.