The "Keystone" jacket and dress cutter. A treatise on jackets, dresses and other garments for women

Book Name-"The "Keystone" jacket and dress cutter. A treatise on jackets, dresses and other garments for women"

Author Name- Charles Hecklinger,


File Type-PDF

Pages-106

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PDF Size-4.3mb


Book Type-English


Publication date - 1895


Publisher - London : New York, The Herald of fashion co 

 

THE MEASURES. THE greatest possible care should be taken in measuring to obtain correct
lengths and widths, as only right measures will enable us, in drafting, to de fine the size and position or attitude of the form measured
We must, therefore, take the measures from and to accurately located points.
The height of the neck can be easily and correctly located by the eye, and the front and bottom of the ann by the use of a small square: but the waistline, which is a mea miring station of the greatest importance must be defined as follows:
Place an elastic band around the waist, just above the hips, and adjust it so that it is perfectly level
Whether the wist it to be lowg or short, the found was de pared as dit the w all length can then be inerentsed or di d arvarding to style or desde
As the measures that terminate at the belt govern the balance of the garment and indicate attitude, the importance of adjusting it accurately and eys on the Seart of the it will apparent
Having adjusted the belt, proceed as follows:




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