Elements of Garment Cutting: Together with Practical Hints to Cutters; A Chapter on Probable Faults, Optical Illusions in Drafting, Etiquette of the Cutting-Room; Explanations of Madison's Rational System; Economy in Cutting; Making; How to Alter; Anecdot by J O Madison (Paperback / softback, 2015)
Excerpt from Elements of Garment Cutting: Together With Practical Hints to Cutters; A Chapter on Probable Faults, Optical Illusions in Drafting, Etiquette of the Cutting-Room; Explanations of Madison's Rational System; Ecomy in Cutting; Making; How to Alter; Anecdotes of Cutters, Tailors, and T 1. It is entirely unlike any other work in matter, manner, and purpose. 2. It is the largest book ever published on the subject of garment cutting. 3. It is t published in the interest of any system. 4. It thoroughly explains every principle employed in measuring and drafting. 5. It illustrates all the faults to which garments are liable, explains their causes and how to discover, avoid, and remedy them. 6. It expounds in a plain, comprehensive manner the peculiarities of deformities, and renders it as easy to fit a hunchback as an Adonis. 7. It minutely details a vast number of devices successfully employed by eminent cutters to assist in producing style and fit. 8. It instructs the cutter in regard to his duties, rights, and privileges, and gives valuable rules for his deportment. 9. It contains a large number of amusing and instructive anecdotes and incidents connected with the craft, which are of peculiar value to every cutter who has a fondness for, and is proud of his profession. 10. It contains explanations of coat, vest, and pantaloon systems (worth $40), which have equals in simplicity or accuracy, which require only the inch tape and common square. The coat system is a self-balancing, shoulder measure, requiring the measures, ten only, to be taken over the vest. 11. It will enable any jour. to become a successful cutter with a little study and practice. 12. It contains a history of the late Otis Madison's professional career. 13. It illustrates how to save cloth, enabling the cutter to cut a suit out of from six to six and a half yards of cloth, instead of using from seven to seven and a half, as is generally done. 14. It contains copious extracts from the works of the late Otis Madison, the authors father. 15. It aims to elevate the craft to a scientific profession, and to make the cutter, in the highest sense of the word, an artist. 16. It contains about 150 original engravings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.