Modern Pattern Design  By HARRIET PEPIN, Director, Pepin Academy of Fashion

Reprint, paperback with coil binding, 266 pages.

This book is simply the best and was a core driver for many a career (including my own) and most of the vintage designs we love.  I add here the original information from the dustcover.  Sandy Ericson

(From the original flyleafs of the dustcover)

"This book teaches you the professional secrets of cutting smart, shapely wearing apparel as employed by our nation's leading designers. It teaches you how to reproduce those exclusive, glamorous gowns you've always wanted by learning to cut your own design. It allows you freedom from the limitations of commercial patterns, and teaches you how to add instead your own original ideas.  Furthermore, it shows you how to adapt commercial patterns in order to achieve more beauty for your individual figure proportions.
By means of clear, easy-to-follow instructions and more than 1,000 illuminating drawings and diagrams, MODERN PATTERN DESIGN teaches you how the basic foundation pattern may be used successfully to create all types of garments women's and children's dresses, blouses, skirts, wraps, sportswear, lingerie, beach apparel, etc. The book conclusively proves that pattern designing is an art which is well within the scope of the average woman who "likes to sew." It includes simple instructions for the application of basic artistic principles such as form, proportion, spacing, unity, relationship and line as a means of securing shapely, well-fitting clothes. It includes also an analysis of the methods used to produce patterns for varying silhouettes which return to fashion favor from time to time.
For anyone interested in modern apparel design, as a career or as a hobby, this up-to-date volume is indispensable. Designers, dressmakers, stylists, sales people, home economics teachers, fashion art students and others ambitious to acquire knowledge of latest professional pattern designing methods will recognize its enormous value as a work of pertinent information for immediate reference."

Introducing HARRIET PEPIN

"FASHION, in all its various ramifications was an absorbing interest of Harriet Pepin's life. It was at the age of nine, under the critically discerning eye of a French grandmother, that she created her first dress.  Since those days, she has ever been an ardent and enthusiastic student of fashion and has enjoyed a world of both pleasure and profit through the artistic expression of her own creative abilities.
Miss Pepin was educated for a teaching career, but during her school years, she spent much of her spare time in designing and making clothes for her classmates and three older sisters. She gave up the teaching profession, however, and went to Washington where she did apprentice work in some of the Capital City's smartest custom studios. Later, she continued her fashion studies at the Traphagen School and at Parsons in New York.
Miss Pepin became keenly interested in the rise of mass production in the American garment industry. In order to obtain first-hand knowledge of this highly specialized field she spent considerable time in selling ready-to-wear in apparel shops. Although she was then employing her talent for fashion merely as an avocation, she found a ready market for her original designs when they were offered to manufacturers. It was through the influence and encouragement of certain manufacturers that she was urged to sponsor a specialized fashion training school in the mid-west. In 1934, the Pepin Academy of Fashion was founded."