HiFashion Sewing and Tailoring Author:Helen S. Jones Helen S. Jones is a graduate home economist with practical experience in helping women learn to sew beautifully. A native of Iowa, she received her B.S. from Iowa State University and moved into a career of fashion consulting and sewing instruction that has taken her into numerous cities across the country and into the hearts of the women she ha... more »s instructed. Her workshops have produced prize winning seamstress of all ages. She has conducted lectures on college campuses, in high schools, over radio and TV and in fashion fabric centers.
This book is in response to the demands of her students to compile the techniques she demonstrates. Sewing has been a lifetime love, and she considers it her hobby as well as vocation. Her methods have been perfected in professional training, personal sewing and classroom instruction.
Miss Jones is past-chairman of the Colorado Home Economists in Business, is a member of both state and national Home Economics Associations and American Women in Radio and Television. She will be listed in the forthcoming editions of WHO'S WHO OF AMERICAN WOMEN, PERSONALITIES OF THE WEST AND MIDWEST, and OUTSTANDING YOUNG WOMEN OF AMERICA. She is a 1971 recipient of the Outstanding Young Alumnus Recognition award from Iowa State University.« less