As this is a book first published in France, expect a bit of Parisian chic! This is definitely one for the keeper shelf of any dressmaker or maker of wearable art, packed with readable instructions, useful photographic stages and a pattern at the back for every item. Simply measure up to the sizes shown (or your own requirements) and cut out in your chosen fabric. It is harder to think of a more simple book in many ways, or one that is so utterly to-the-point and useful, very akin to a paper pattern with a large number of styles. A lot of the bags are the tote style, or classic handbags, rather than the evening variety, so the emphasis is very much on the practical, but once you have made a couple of bags you will find yourself thinking that this bag making business is not so hard after all. A very hands-on book that contains the most generally useful - rather than frivolous - set of bags yet.