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Title: The international encyclopedia of scientific tailor principles, for all kinds and styles of garment-making ... Also designing ... embroidery, crocheting, knitting, worsted work, fancy and artistic needle work ..
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Christner, D. C
Subjects: Dressmaking Tailoring Fancy work
Publisher: Philadelphia (S.M. Larzelere, printer)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ots, longer loose coats ; and ul-sters, simply long coats; each and all of which differ nothing in principle; only in■depth, and the degree of closeness or ease of fit; which, principle of degrees, is thesame as that given under Figure V, in Plate V ; and which, deserves the studentsmost careful study and thorough analysis, in all its varied bearings; and which, whenproperly understood and mastered, will enable him or her, to easily find the hiddenend; and unravel, what to many seems, a most vexatiously tangled-skein. N. B.—Riding-habits are cut exactly on the same principle as long coats—cut-ting the skirt at will, to any design or fashion plate. The Lnternational Method —OF— FOREIGN AND AMERICAN SeientifiG Tailor-Principles, FOR DRAFTING THE MATHEMATICAL MOULD OR PERFECTFIT OF THE HUMAN FORM, FROM THE INDICESOR MEASURES GIVEN, TRUE TO ALL KINDSAND STYLES OF MANTEAUX. PELISSES. MANTELETS, DOLMANS. AND DOLMAN-SLEEVED-WRAPS. ETC. 132 UTILITY AND DECORATIVE ART. 133 PLATE XVI.
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The International Dolman-Plate. 134 ^^ ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GARMENT-MAKING, Dolman-Sleeved Wrap-Cutting. PLATE XVI.-FIGURES XLIX, L, LI, LII. EXPLANATION. 1. The above Figures, respectively, represent the back, front, top-sleeve, andunder, or bottom-sleeve, of the Standard English-Dress-Dolman. 2. To simplify the process, use the exact measures given for practice, in close-fitting body-drafting; remembering however, that when drafting to any particularform, the close-fitting measures must first be taken, and the draft founded on thesame measures, increased in the ratio given, for coat-cutting ; and as illustrated underPlate XV. INSTRUCTIONS. 1. Locate point i on the material upon which the draft is made, the distanceof the desired skirt-depth, plus the hem (if a hem is desired), from the bottom orright-hand edge, and i % inches from the front, toward the opposite edge. 2. Add lyi inches to the extreme arm-depth-measure : Draw line A, at rightangles with the front edge, from point i toward

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