Apparel: Design, Textiles & Construction, 11th Edition

By: Louise A. Liddell and Carolee S. Samuels
Copyright: 2018
Subject: Clothing and Fashion
Grade Level: 9-12
Apparel: Design, Textiles & Construction is a comprehensive introduction to the worlds of apparel and fashion with updated information and new and improved illustrations and features. Robust digital offerings also accompany this new edition, including a new companion website with e-flash cards, digital graphic organizers, online chapter reviews, and interactive self-assessment quizzes.
  • This edition provides multiple new opportunities for the integration of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math). Updated STEM features and new STEM-related activities challenge students to apply chapter concepts using these relevant skills.
  • New and updated content about global trends and technology in the apparel and textile industries gives students the most current information. An updated design with attractive new illustrations invites students to engage more easily with the text.
  • In addition to multiple critical thinking, reading, writing, math, technology, science, and speaking activities, new career readiness activities prompt students to apply chapter content to the workplace.
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Table of Contents
Unit 1: Apparel and Fashion
1. Understanding Clothing
2. Understanding Fashion
3. Textiles and Apparel Through the Years
4. The Textile and Apparel Industry
5. The Worldwide Apparel Industry
6. A Closer Look at Fashion Design
Unit 2: Apparel Decisions
7. Planning a Wardrobe
8. Apparel Decisions and Choices
9. Consumer Rights and Responsibilities
10. Choices as a Consumer
11. Get Your Money's Worth
12. Selecting Apparel for Family Members
13. Keeping Apparel Looking Its Best
14. Laundry and Dry Cleaning
15. Repair, Redesign, and Recycle
Unit 3: Color and Design
16. Color
17. The Elements and Principles of Design
Unit 4: From Fibers to Fabrics
18. The Natural Fibers
19. The Manufactured Fibers
20. From Yarn to Fabric
21. Fabric Color and Finishes
Unit 5: Sewing Techniques
22. Figure Types and Pattern Sizes
23. Selecting Patterns and Fabrics
24. Sewing Equipment
25. Getting Ready to Sew
26. Basic Sewing Skills
27. Advanced Sewing Skills
28. Serging Skills
Unit 6: Career Preparation
29. Preparing for a Career
30. A Job and a Career
31. Entrepreneurship—Profiting from Your Skills
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Correlations
FCS National Standards Correlations
PDF
National Standards (PDF, 140 KB)
North Carolina
Oklahoma
Pre-PAC Correlations
South Carolina
 
Fashion Design and Apparel Construction 1, 2
 
CTE—Priority 38 Fashion Design and Apparel 1 & 2, 9-12
Tennessee
Texas
PDF
Fashion Design (PDF, 172 KB)
PDF
Fashion Design I Lab (PDF, 187 KB)
Utah
 
Apparel Design & Production I, II
YouScience® Industry Certifications
About the Author(s)

Louise A. Liddell - Her career in family and consumer sciences includes 15 years of teaching high school in Tennessee. As Assistant Superintendent for a youth development center, she continued her work with teens. Louise's leadership roles in professional organizations include service at local, regional, state, and national levels. As president of the Tennessee Vocational Association, she received a Life Membership award in AVA for outstanding leadership. Louise is also the coauthor of the text Building Life Skills, as well as many magazine and newsletter articles. Louise has a bachelor's degree from the University of Georgia and a master's degree from Memphis State University. She is the author of Apparel: Design, Textiles & Construction and Preparing for Life and Career.

Carolee S. Samuels - served as Editorial Director for Family and Consumer Sciences and Career Education at Goodheart-Willcox Publisher, where she began as an Assistant Editor. Prior to her work as an editor, Carolee was a family and consumer sciences teacher in Illinois and Indiana for 14 years, teaching textiles and apparel to high school students as well as adults. She is active in numerous professional organizations and has held many offices. Carolee has a bachelor's degree from Iowa State University and a master's degree from the University of Illinois.