The cutters' practical guide to the cutting of ladies' garments.. (1890)

I find it difficult to read lots of text and keep it all coherently in my mind to figure out what's going on, so if any of the instructions/text for any diagrams for The cutters' practical guide to the cutting of ladies' garments (1890) or other books are missing, please comment and let me know, but also go to the book for what's missing. The book does jump around a lot and I can only keep track of so much of it to see what's relevant. I find the idea of these old school instructions super important, but I find it difficult to process so... yeah.

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Ladies' Street Jacket 1888

The national garment cutter book of diagrams (1888) Ladies' Street Jacket 1888

"Leggins" (gaiters) and riding breeches (1897)

Superlative System of Cutting Ladies' Garments (1897) "Leggins" (gaiters) and riding breeches (1897) The "leggins" are gaiters, a protective garment covering the shoe and calf - the leggins and breeches blocks are apart of a riding ensemble, the rest of which I omitted. FYI "spats" ("spatter dashes") are indeed basically the lower half of the leggins or gaiters, but they include a strap for under the instep and are to protect from spatters. My sincere good wishes to those attempting the above instructions, I tried and quite failed. That was the beginning of this year though so in all likelihood an attempt at this point would turn out way better. Here's a pic of a failed waistcoat and the breeches I made in the spirit of the design: Awkward photo-self is awkward. You can't see the waistband which is a pity, but there's a side metal zip with a double metal button closure, looks pretty damn good. Es

Ladies' Chemise 1888

The national garment cutter book of diagrams (1888) Ladies' Chemise 1888

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