The secret of successful tailoring by Watkins Edward

Author:Watkins, Edward. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Tailoring (Women's) [from old catalog]
Publisher: New York, The Morse-Broughton co
Published: 1910-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

THE SECRET OF SUCCESSFUL TAILORING

gestions that can be employed and developed in the ordinary workroom.

In Fig. I (see page 55) we have a design suggested by the sumac and adapted to the lines of that very admirable street suit, which appeared as a cover design on the September, 1909, issue of L'Art de la Mode, It was one of the new models, for it is evident that until we learn to be original in small things we must continue to depend upon Paris for the lines on which we build our gowns and suits.

By way of illustrating my plea for some show of individuality in every dressmaking establishment throughout the country, let us suppose that some other gownmaker in your town has and is making duplicates of the design as shown in L'Art de la Mode. The suit appeals to you, and you wish to duplicate it also. But, being progressive, you do not wish to make anything that resembles the work of your contemporaries; therefore you take a suggestion for your decorative scheme from something that Nature offers, just as I have evolved the suggestion shown in Fig. I.

You thereby become original in your adaptation, your customer is much pleased that she has a gown different from any other, and you have given the inventive and artistic tendencies of your nature something to feed upon. Your

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