Welander's perfected combination system based upon practical, sure and simple methods, giving the exact balance and proportions for each and every type and form by Welander A. W

Author:Welander, A. W. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Tailoring
Publisher: Chicago, Ill., A. W. Welander
Published: 1896-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

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Practical Remarks from Daily Practice as it Appears on the Bench, Cutting Board, and in Business.

There are many things a cutter must know to be fitted for every branch of the trade. He should be a tailor from the first to the last. He should be a good salesman, a good business man, pleasing to customers, to his tailors who work for him, to his cutters, to his salesmen, if he employs any, never proud and with everlasting patience, the first at the office in the morning and last to leave in the evening. Never go out for dinner or supper, when customers are most apt to come in to see you.

Now we cannot fill all these places at once, as we start out as cutters, but we can all acquire them little by little. I have myself practiced all these things, and at an early age learned tailoring on the bench. I learned my trade in Europe, and worked there as a journeyman tailor for many years for many of the finest tailors in that country, and at the early age of fourteen learned cutting, and practiced cutting on my own account, at different times taking orders and working for myself. But being young, I wanted to travel and see the world, so I finally came to America where I have been working as a coat maker for Chicago's finest tailors for several years, and also in different parts of the Northwest, until I made up my mind I would practice cuttinf; and follow it, as I always had a liking for that branch of the trade. This J did with great success, both as cutter, manager for tailoring business, and in business for myself.

My work in preparing this system has taken me several years to perfect, and by using it in daily practice, I have, to my greatest satisfaction, accomplished the work for publication. The ladies" system is alone a piece of work that cost me three years' study, and can cut the most perfect-fitting ladies' garment by it without a try-on, as with the gentlemen's. I hardly ever try on a garment until seams are sewed, and nine times out of ten without an alteration.

Now we can fit a customer, but not always please him, though you may be the best cutter in the world. But never lose patience with a customer. You may be ready to fly into pieces, but never thow it to a customer, and it will be to your interest whether you are a cutter or a boss. Try to please him, if ever so "cranky"; try and try again and when you win him he is your best customer. But one thing: Get your prices out of him. Never make him a lower price; rather let him go; he will come back and pay your price if you have pleased him, because nobody else can please him any better. If you work for a "cranky" boss, never talk cross, or act mean when he tells you anything, but answer freely when in a pleasant mood, and in a way to please him.

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