A Designer's Book of Bridal Gowns [Paperback]

Debby Roosa (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 15, 2004

Now the dress that every girl dreams about can be made to order, with A Designer's Book of Bridal Gowns, available from The Fashiondex.

Written by artist, fashion designer, and seamstress Debby Roosa, A Designer’s Book of Bridal Gowns gives designers and the women they’re designing for a personal invitation to create the gown ideally suited to the bride’s body type and type of wedding. Roosa highlights more than 1,600 different design details, including every imaginable type of sleeve, bodice, waistline, and skirt, and incorporates how each will mesh with the bride’s particular body type. From short to tall, thin to full-figured, and every body type in between, this book details the best way to emphasize the positives—while detracting from things like big hips and a full tummy.

Perfect for brides, fashion designers, patternmakers, and tailors, A Designer’s Book of Bridal Gowns showcases hundreds of ideas that also can be used for after-five and other special-occasion fashions. With fascinating sections like "The Wedding-Gown History" and "The Different Styles of Brides" Roosa offers unique, personal commentary sure to add a touch of warmth to what can often be a stressful event in a woman’s life.

Choosing the right wedding dress has just become as easy as saying "I do", with the publication of A Designer’s Book of Bridal Gowns.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Debby Roosa is an artist, fashion designer, seamstress and award-winning photographer, who has worked in the art field for the last fifteen years. She went to school at Academia de Decoracion Las Mercedes in Caracas, Venezuela. She is currently working for Universal Orlando as a costume technician.

The goal of this book is to help brides select their ideal wedding gowns. As a seamstress, Debby Roosa met many brides-to-be that really did not know what style of gown to choose, or what materials might look best on them. This book is Debby’s way of helping future brides, so that they can design their own wedding gown—a gown perfectly suited for their individual body type and personality.

Debby Roosa has had a wonderful time writing this book. She dedicates the effort to all brides-to-be, so they can have the perfect dress—the dress they always imagined.

Product Details

• Paperback: 280 pages
• Publisher: The Fashiondex, Inc. (November 15, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0974101125
• ISBN-13: 978-0974101125
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 7.7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,290,633 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #77 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Weddings > Gown

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Skip ahead to the synopsis..., April 27, 2005

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A. Ferrance (Columbia, SC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Designer's Book of Bridal Gowns (Paperback)

I borrowed this book from a friend and I am so glad that I did not buy it. Reading through the table of contents it would appear that this book has exhaustive coverage of bridal gowns but I found that this was not the case. I felt like I reread a lot of the same information more than once. If you do decide to get this book, save yourself some trouble and skip most of the middle chapters and go straight to the synopsis by body types. Most of the information that is pertinent to you from the earlier chapters is repeated there (This book could stand to be better organized.)
The one thing the book does have that is kind of fun is that the last 50 pages or so are outlines of the various parts of the gowns (bodices, sleeves, skirts and etc.) that you can use to create your own gown using tracing paper and mixing and matching the different parts of the gowns with each other. I almost felt like I was five again and playing with paper dolls.
Most wedding books seem to have a section on what types of gowns look best on which body types, but if you decide that you need a whole book I would recommend The Wedding Gown Book by Elizabeth Shimer (ISBN# 1-59253-066-4) instead. It is less expensive, better organized, in full color, has more natural divisions (between the types of gowns and brides), and also has a section to help pick out dresses for your bridesmaids.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lots and lots of fashion sketches, May 25, 2005

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Assistant Designer (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Designer's Book of Bridal Gowns (Paperback)

I like this book very much since it has lots and lots of fashion sketches, and so many ideas to work with. It's very good for designing.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must for all the brides, July 19, 2005

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Tina (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Designer's Book of Bridal Gowns (Paperback)

Wonderful book with loads of sketches and ideas. Very helpful if you are deciding on your gown ,bridal or not, and all its details. Plenty to choose from.