Points on Dress Cutting and Fitting - Embracing the Latest Ideas Carries Out in the Leading Emporiums of Fashion of Paris, London, and New York, to Which Is Appended an Original, Complete, and Simplified System of Dress Cutting, Embody... #245753

The more the subject was considered, the more was it recognized that a treatise on dress, combining with the points a system of cut ting free from all complications, scalings, and chartings — one that would be self-instructing and take the beginner step by step until the perfect draft was completed; nor end there, but continue to the point where the professional cutter would find value in its teachings — would be to accomplish a work for which a demand has long existed. Again, the question of space arose for such a work to be success ful must be c'oncise. This called for hours of unremitting labor spent in selecting and condensing that which appeared to have the greatest value. How far I have been successful the public will judge.