Gentlemen's Garment Cutting and Tailoring - The Dressmaker's Guide

Gentlemen's Garment Cutting and Tailoring - The Dressmaker's Guide Synopsis

This book contains a vintage guide to making clothes for men, with information on tools, materials, different styles, fitting, cutting, and much more. With step-by-step instructions and helpful illustrations, this volume is ideal for the novice tailor, and would make for a worthy addition to collections of related literature. Contents include: "e;Trouser Cutting"e;, "e;Corpulent Draft. Diagram 2"e;, "e;Style Details and Top Finishes"e;, "e;Riding Breeches, "e;Cutting of Overgarments"e;, "e;Cutting for Corpulent Figures"e;, "e;Variations from Normal Draft"e;, "e;Motor Liveries"e;, "e;How to Make Trousers"e;, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on dressmaking and tailoring.

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