--- product_id: 1765458 title: "The Complete Photo Guide to Perfect Fitting" price: "£26.98" currency: GBP in_stock: true reviews_count: 9 url: https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/1765458-the-complete-photo-guide-to-perfect-fitting store_origin: GB region: United Kingdom --- # The Complete Photo Guide to Perfect Fitting **Price:** £26.98 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Complete Photo Guide to Perfect Fitting - **How much does it cost?** £26.98 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.uk](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/1765458-the-complete-photo-guide-to-perfect-fitting) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description The Complete Photo Guide to Perfect Fitting [Veblen, Sarah] on desertcart.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Complete Photo Guide to Perfect Fitting Review: Excellent resource for everyone trying to visualize fit problems - Sometimes it really is true that a picture is worth a thousand words. This book is the perfect example of how you can read something over and over and not understand it the way you can from seeing a clear full-color photo. I've read fitting tips in pretty much every garment making book and website and pattern out there, but this was, bar none, the one that made me understand it the best. The idea of a horizontal balance line to change where you do your alterations is the kind of simple and elegant idea that is absolutely radical in how you interpret things. There is a whole section on what pull and crumple lines look like in fitting, and how to alter them. It's true that this is the kind of thing that would be easier to see and adjust if you were fitting someone else, but I still think it's very valid information for someone who fits themselves -- I know I take a lot of cell phone pictures to see how things are fitting across the back or arms. It's also really nice to see a breadth of body types and "fit problems" that may be what you're facing, without seeming at all judgemental. Some people have lower or higher breasts, some people have bellies or asses or narrow shoulders or ... it's just a thing you can solve with fitting, not a moral issue. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is doing fitting for themselves. It's a great companion to the Fit for Real People book, which was my introduction into how to alter patterns for size and fit. I'd read both of them -- Fit for Real People had a better description of how to do a Full Bust Adjustment, but this book had pictures about how and why it would work. I recommend you buy the paper copy of this book -- I still buy my craft books in paper -- and then go ahead and upgrade to the digital for another couple bucks. It's worthwhile to have both of them. Read if: You do fitting for yourself. You are interested in understanding why things don't fit. Skip if: You don't do your own sewing. Also read: Fit for Real People. Review: really helpful - No fitting guide is ever going to be totally complete, especially if it has pictures, without being the size of a set of encyclopedias, but this one is really good for most things. I prefer to correct as many fit issues as possible on the pattern before I even do a muslin, and that is not how this book is intended to be used, but I think that a moderately experienced seamstress could still translate a lot of what the pictures show into pattern alterations. I love that this has photographs instead of drawings because it's much easier to see what indicators of fit problems look like in real life instead of in cartoons, which I think can give a false impression of how easy drag lines, etc., can be to see. Also, it includes pants. So many books skim over pants. Also, this is really meant to be used by someone fitting a muslin to someone else, but I don't really find that problematic, either, since it still shows me what fitting problems look like and what I need to do to correct them. Since I can see them on myself in the mirror almost as well as I can see them on somebody else, the information is still good. I checked this out from the library initially but then bought my own copy, and I think I will end up using it a lot. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #44,988 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #19 in Sewing (Books) #24 in Fashion Craft | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (1,771) | | Dimensions | 8.25 x 0.5 x 10.88 inches | | Edition | 45461st | | ISBN-10 | 1589236084 | | ISBN-13 | 978-1589236080 | | Item Weight | 1.92 pounds | | Language | English | | Part of series | Complete Photo Guide | | Print length | 224 pages | | Publication date | January 1, 2012 | | Publisher | Creative Publishing int'l | ## Images ![The Complete Photo Guide to Perfect Fitting - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91IO-zeurGL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent resource for everyone trying to visualize fit problems *by W***T on March 2, 2015* Sometimes it really is true that a picture is worth a thousand words. This book is the perfect example of how you can read something over and over and not understand it the way you can from seeing a clear full-color photo. I've read fitting tips in pretty much every garment making book and website and pattern out there, but this was, bar none, the one that made me understand it the best. The idea of a horizontal balance line to change where you do your alterations is the kind of simple and elegant idea that is absolutely radical in how you interpret things. There is a whole section on what pull and crumple lines look like in fitting, and how to alter them. It's true that this is the kind of thing that would be easier to see and adjust if you were fitting someone else, but I still think it's very valid information for someone who fits themselves -- I know I take a lot of cell phone pictures to see how things are fitting across the back or arms. It's also really nice to see a breadth of body types and "fit problems" that may be what you're facing, without seeming at all judgemental. Some people have lower or higher breasts, some people have bellies or asses or narrow shoulders or ... it's just a thing you can solve with fitting, not a moral issue. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is doing fitting for themselves. It's a great companion to the Fit for Real People book, which was my introduction into how to alter patterns for size and fit. I'd read both of them -- Fit for Real People had a better description of how to do a Full Bust Adjustment, but this book had pictures about how and why it would work. I recommend you buy the paper copy of this book -- I still buy my craft books in paper -- and then go ahead and upgrade to the digital for another couple bucks. It's worthwhile to have both of them. Read if: You do fitting for yourself. You are interested in understanding why things don't fit. Skip if: You don't do your own sewing. Also read: Fit for Real People. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ really helpful *by D***D on April 24, 2013* No fitting guide is ever going to be totally complete, especially if it has pictures, without being the size of a set of encyclopedias, but this one is really good for most things. I prefer to correct as many fit issues as possible on the pattern before I even do a muslin, and that is not how this book is intended to be used, but I think that a moderately experienced seamstress could still translate a lot of what the pictures show into pattern alterations. I love that this has photographs instead of drawings because it's much easier to see what indicators of fit problems look like in real life instead of in cartoons, which I think can give a false impression of how easy drag lines, etc., can be to see. Also, it includes pants. So many books skim over pants. Also, this is really meant to be used by someone fitting a muslin to someone else, but I don't really find that problematic, either, since it still shows me what fitting problems look like and what I need to do to correct them. Since I can see them on myself in the mirror almost as well as I can see them on somebody else, the information is still good. I checked this out from the library initially but then bought my own copy, and I think I will end up using it a lot. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great fitting book. *by D***E on November 19, 2025* I have 4 fitting books and this one is my favorite. I love the big pictures and it explains things well. I’m a visual learner. It goes into detail how to do “flat pattern fitting.” I think if I do it right, I’m hoping I’ll only have to fine tune the muslin or garment. It goes into bodices, skirts, sleeves, and pants. I think I learned a lot from it. ## Frequently Bought Together - The Complete Photo Guide to Perfect Fitting - The Fitting Book: Make Sewing Pattern Alterations & Achieve the Perfect Fit You Desire - The Palmer Pletsch Complete Guide to Fitting: Sew Great Clothes for Every Body. 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