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Gentleman's garment cutting and tailoring: the dressmaker's guide

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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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Product Details
Thonssen Press
144748309X / 9781447483090
eBook (EPUB)
646.4
16/04/2013
English
330 pages
Copy: 20%; print: 20%