Descrizione

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.