
- 300 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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The Modern Tailor Outfitter and Clothier - Vol. I.
About this book
Originally published in 1928, The Modern Tailor, Outfitter and Clothier, is a classic three-volume work detailing the tailoring and clothes-making industry, including design, sales practices and production methods, in the early 20th century.
Extremely well illustrated with photographs, many helpful diagrams, and detailed instructions for designing and constructing various garments. It provides the reader with a detailed snapshot of the tailoring trade and its history.
Volume one contents include:
- Tailoring as a Vocation
- Gentlemen's Garment Cutting
- Trouser Cutting - Vest Cutting -
- Measures and Measuring - Coat Cutting -
- Over Garments -
- Cutting for Corpulent Figures -
- Trying On -
- Manipulation -
- Anatomy for Tailors -
- Measuring for Ladies Garments -
- Skirt Cutting -
- Coat Cutting -
- Breeches Cutting -
- Colour and Clothes -
- Juvenile Garments -
- Alterations -
- Collar Cutting -
- Catering for American Clients -
- West End Models -
- Draft of West End Morning Coat -
- Scales of Measurements etc.
Many of the earliest books on fashion and clothing , particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing this vintage volume in a modern and affordable edition, complete with a new introduction and high quality reproductions of the original illustration plates.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Plates
- Introduction
- Chapter I: Some Problems of the Tailoring Trade
- Chapter II: Tailoring as a Vocation
- Chapter III: Taking the Order
- Chapter IV: Gentlemen’s Garment Cutting—Trouser Cutting
- Chapter V: Gentlemen’s Garment Cutting—Vest Cutting
- Chapter VI: Measures and Measuring
- Chapter VII: Gentlemen’s Garment Cutting—Coat Cutting
- Chapter VIII: Gentlemen’s Garment Cutting—Cutting of Overgarments
- Chapter IX: Gentlemen’s Garment Cutting—Cutting for Corpulent Figures
- Chapter X: Gentlemen’s Garment Cutting—Variations from the Normal Draft
- Chapter XI: Trying-On—Its Place, Purpose, and Plan
- Chapter XII: After Trying-On
- Chapter XIII: Manipulation
- Chapter XIV: The Principles of Cutting
- Chapter XV: Anatomy for Tailors
- Chapter XVI: Measuring for Ladies’ Garments
- Chapter XVII: Ladies’ Garments—Skirt Cutting
- Chapter XVIII: Ladies’ Garments—Coat Cutting
- Chapter XIX: Ladies’ Garments—Breeches Cutting
- Chapter XX: Colour and Clothes
- Chapter XXI: Juvenile Garments—Cutting for Juveniles
- Chapter XXII: Alterations—Their Cause and Cure
- Chapter XXIII: Collar Cutting and Making for Gentlemen’s Garments
- Chapter XXIV: Catering for American Clients
- Chapter XXV: West End Models
- Chapter XXVI: Draft of West End Morning Coat
- Scales of Measurements