Making Classic Wedding Dresses

Description

This is a vintage instructional pattern-cutting book written by the late designer and fashion lecturer Nicholas Bullen, officially published in July 1981 by HarperCollins Distribution Services. Released on the exact day of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer’s historic royal wedding, the 80-page paperback manual was widely praised by The Sunday Times as a “perfect aid” for dressmakers. Drawing on his extensive expertise as a bespoke designer and the head of fashion at Ealing College of Higher Education, Bullen created this book as a practical, technical guide complete with physical, scalable dress patterns bound into the back. It serves as an authentic historical archive for creating the highly structured, traditional, and romantic silhouettes of the early 1980s, making it a prized collectors’ item for intermediate to advanced garment makers today. Complete with unopened plastic envelope of patterns. With just some marks on the back page.