Excerpt from The Elements of Modern Dressmaking: For the Amateur and Professional Dressmaker Dressmaking is an art admitting of many degrees of quality, but having one standard of perfection. It is not sufficient that a garment fit smoothly over the figure when standing or in any fixed position, it must comply with every movement, and adjusting itself to every turn and bend of the body, still retain a perfect contour, and be, above all things, perfectly comfortable to the wearer. To attain this req'uires, not only a ...
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Excerpt from The Elements of Modern Dressmaking: For the Amateur and Professional Dressmaker Dressmaking is an art admitting of many degrees of quality, but having one standard of perfection. It is not sufficient that a garment fit smoothly over the figure when standing or in any fixed position, it must comply with every movement, and adjusting itself to every turn and bend of the body, still retain a perfect contour, and be, above all things, perfectly comfortable to the wearer. To attain this req'uires, not only a natural. Liking and aptitude for sewing, a quick eye, and ready decision, but careful and thorough training, and the painstaking which results in profitable experience. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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