16 - Sunday, January 29, 1989 - North Shore News

NORTH VANCOUVER
Class helps home sewers beat hourglass fit

SHAPE IS back whether you have
the perfect figure or not.

The hourglass fit of the new
contoured fashions is bringing
‘fits’? to the home sewer, 2special-
ly to those who have enjoyed the
loose, full-fitted designs of the last
few years.

Help is on the way with Hazel
Boyd, who was trained in New
York by Vogue to teach the Vogue
Professional Fitting programs.

This North Vancouver-based,
Tex-mar seminar leader says that
fitting is the most difficult problem
for most home sewers.

Most instruction in the market-
place has been in the form of lec-
ture and demonstration by the in-
structor.

The student usually takes a pur-
chased kit home and tries to
decipher the contents alone, But
most give up in despair.

Vogue will take you one step
further, with two additional five-
hour intensive fitting workshops,

with individual fittings.

The initial two-and-a-half to
three-hour seminar will cover all
the basics on how to use the Vogue
professional fitting program kits.

With three years of pattern and
dress design under European in-
struction, Boyd appreciates the
streamlined methods of translating
the master dress pattern alterations
to ail your fashion patterns.

This technique eliminates the
need to flat measure each pattern
prior to cutting.

There will be sample dress and
pant fitting shells to try on in order
to determine your approximate
size.

“In this day and age, with
shortage of time, I prefer to let the
major designers do the work, put-
ting in the ease for the particular
style, and then I make the minor
changes with my fitted shell as the
base,’’ says Boyd.

Understanding your body profile
and figure type is crucial to choos-

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ing fabric, line and style.

Using design elements to create
illusions is a@ must. Within eact
figure type there are shapes which
will be important to understand in
order to choose styles that will
look best.

Many misses-petite sized women
find it difficult to purchase store-
bought clothing as the selection is
limited. Sewing your own perfectly

fitted garments with your choice of
fabric and style affords many more
options than purchasing a ready-
made garment.

The introductory three-hour
seminar will be held on Saturday,
Feb. 4, from 9 a.m. to 12 noon at
North Vancouver’s Coach House
Inn, 700 Lillooet Rd. Cost is $20
and includes free how-to informa-
tion, plus coupons worth $10.

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The two five-hour Hands-on
Fitting workshops for either the
master dress or pant patterns will
be held on Feb. 8 and 15 from 5:30
to 10:30 p.m. at the Capilano
Motor Inn in North Vancouver.

Advance registration is a must
for both courses. Phone 929-3239
or 929-6010 today.

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