Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Dress and Cloak Cutter: A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Cutting Dresses and Overgarments for Ladies, Especially Designed and Adapted for Tailors' Use
It is believed that the manner herein adopted of treating the Theory and Practice ofthe cutting of dresses is in a great measure new.
But few works of any value have been published on dress-cutting, and most of those consist merely of a few practical rules, without reference to any theoret ical basis, and the author is not aware that the attempt to base-the whole practice of the modern art on a sure fundamental principle, namely, the combination of a good construction as produced by a correct measure, has ever been attained.
It has often been urged that the cutter must apply the measure in connection with his draft; but this has usually been only given as an incidental maxim of practice; it has never been treated as the main principle of work from which suc cess springs.
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