Customer Reviews

Rip It!: How to Deconstruct and Reconstruct the Clothes of Your Dreams

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I was disappointed in this book. There is some good basic information, but very little "deconstruction". A majority of the projects are merely adding decorations or embellishments to garments. Large print and a lot of white space on the pages make the book appear more substantial than what it actually contains. There are no pictures of actual examples, which would be helpful. Many of the projects are dated and uninspired. All-in-all, I am sorry I bought this book.

Book shows you how to make holes in your clothes and stitch patches on. I'm not sure it was necessary to publish a book on how to get the trailer park look. I was hoping to get great ideas on how to alter clothes I buy at second hand stores so they fit me better. And too just cool alterations to make, but this was not the case. I wish I would have looked at customer images submitted under this title before I bought the book bc this will give you a good idea of what the book is about- making holes in your clothes.

If you aren't extremely familiar with pattern work or want to reconstruct some old clothing to practice sewing, this book is a good starting place. It has creative ideas including some that are relatively simple. I would not personally wear all the examples in the book but it was fun to practice on old clothes I was donating anyway.

If you are an experienced sewer, or have already used similar books then this book probably won't work for you and will seem like a rehash.

The book also serves as a great platform for coming up with your own deconstruction/reconstruction ideas. Once you are comfortable a few moderations to some of the suggestions makes it more personable and more wearable.

I think it would help to have some basic experience using a sewing machine PRIOR to using this book.

Don't waste your time or money with this book! The ideas in this book are awful and outdated, and the results look extremely homemade. The few photos found inside were black and white and hard to make out (the only clear, color photos are on the covers), and the "dream" results for the projects were in illustration form. If you're looking for a decent dyi book, look somewhere else!

I found the book to be far too simple. I am by no means a pro at sewing, but most of the ideas in this book were things I had already thought of on my own. The directions were a little too vague to make the clothing appear well tailored unless you already know what you're doing.

I have the Sew Fast Sew Easy book and my sewing has improved ten fold. I now have an understanding of how garments are put together and am experimenting with redesigning my own clothes. I then bought Rip It!. This book explains a bunch of diferent ways of reconstructing clothes and accessories so it's been really helpful to recreating my clothes. It's a great book for any level of sewer of any age. I definitely recommend this book!

This book isn't so much about refashioning your clothes so much as a basic sewing and fit lesson. I felt this book was WAY too basic for me. There really weren't any patterns and the pictures were pretty unimpressive. I was really disappointed with this book. If you are curious, get it from the library, but don't waste your money!

The sub-title of this book is How to Deconstruct & Reconstruct the Clothes of Your Dreams. What an inacurate description! I can't imagine anyone past puberty ever dreaming of clothes like these. I was looking for basic principles, not lessons in how to make raggedy clothes look even worse. With the author's background & sub-title I really did expect something useful.

I re-make a lot of thrift shop finds, but don't want to waste my time making something look even worse. I'm really surprised how insulted I am by this book. Surely readers deserve some designs that could be worn in public, something perhaps clever, stylish, or exhibiting imagination. I had thought I'd at least find ideas my great-granddaughters could use, but this book is going straight to the thrift shop where it belongs.

I was looking for a book on how to alter clothes, that is make them smaller or larger. This book takes an old garment and makes it into something new. That is not at all what I had in mind when this book was recommended. I thought it was going to teach me to do alterations, not how to change a piece of clothing into something different.

I was excited about this book, I checked it out from my local library, I was really not impressed. I have been sewing on and off for 3 years and I was looking for ideas to refresh the clothes in my closet. I live in Miami, the projects they suggested were way too basic and no way would I walk around miami wearing anything this book told me to do.

The only thing I learned, or re-learned cuz I had forgotten was how to make your jeans shorter but keep the original hem line. So I'm really glad I didn't just buy this book.