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The Language of Fashion Design
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The Language of Fashion Design

by Laura Volpintesta
February 2014
Beginner content levelBeginner
240 pages
7h 2m
English
Rockport Publishers
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Sheer fabrics usually create a smoke-screen
effect. Woven and finely knit sheers are never
totally sheer like a vinyl could be, and yet vinyl is
reflective. The cloudy, hazy effect of a sheer fabric
softens any look, color, or surface. Coincidentally,
transparency
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the language of fashion design
such fabrics are often soft to the touch,
though not necessarily so.
Sheer fabrics reveal their construction:
French seams, labels, plackets, pleats, stitch-
ing—all of it becomes visible to the eye as
an opaque brushstroke on the sheer canvas. ...
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ISBN: 9781592538218