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1) Calypso
Author
Language
English
Description
Personal essays share the author's adventures after buying a vacation house on the Carolina coast and his reflections on middle age and mortality.
2) Perfect fit
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Michael Marsden returns to Serendipity to take over his adopted father's job as police chief, he finds his desire to move on waning after he reconnects with Cara Hartley, a policewoman with whom he had a one night stand.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"This is a comprehensive how-to book about altering commercial patterns to customize the fit to one's own body before cutting out fabric and sewing the garment. Poor fit is the number one reason many sewers get discouraged with garment sewing. Author Sarah Veblen guides the reader through the steps of sewing a muslin test garment, fine-tuning the fit by pinning the garment to mold perfectly to the wearer's body, marking the adjustments, and then transferring...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to the new era of crochet. Making garments from the top down is a favorite knitting technique that allows knitters to test and adjust the fit as they go. Now, thanks to designer Dora Ohrenstein, crocheters will benefit for the first time from a pattern book featuring the same beloved approach. These 14 fashionable patterns are sure to flatter bodies of all shapes and sizes. Show-stopping original photography, an extensive discussion of the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Discover how the Lane Bryant clothing brand changed the way we buy clothes forever by celebrating bodies of all shapes and sizes in this inclusive picture book biography of a Lithuanian immigrant with a brilliant eye for fashion and business"--
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A striking and inventive social history of the role of clothing in the making of modern Americans.
While fashions of the rich and famous have been lushly, chronicled, little attention has been paid to the meaning of clothes for everyone else. Yet between 1890 and the outbreak of World War II, as ready-to-wear came into its own, the clothes of ordinary Americans claimed the nation's attention. Allied with civic virtue, fashion now played an increasingly...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
"No matter how hard she tries, Triangle doesn't roll like the circles, or stack like the squares. Off she goes to find friends that look exactly like her, only to discover playtime isn't as fun. But what if she can get all the different shapes playing and having fun together?"--Amazon.com.
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
Sunny Weston always wanted to be perfect . . . and that meant being thin. Now, after what seemed like a million years on the treadmill-and a million miles from the nearest brownie-she finally fits into those slinky black dresses she's been eyeing for years.
But being a perfect size doesn't necessarily equal a perfect life. Suddenly Sunny's best friends are all bitter and jealous. She's become a stranger in her own body. And though her longtime work...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Sascha Blase-Van Wagtendonk has discovered the secrets to perfect-fitting and comfortable crochet socks, and has designed ten patterns for the ultimate in style and comfort. All patterns are presented in a range of sizes from babies and toddlers through adult, and for both men and women, so every foot can be warm and happy"--
20) Size matters
Author
Series
Perfect fit (Alison Bliss) volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"...there aren't enough éclairs in the world to distract Leah from the hotness that is Sam Cooper -- or the fact that he just told her mother that they're engaged...which is a big, fat lie." -- page [4] of cover.
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