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 LADIES' TALIORING.

How Ladies may acquire

The Art of Cutting and Making

Tailor-made Garments

The Course of Tuition for Lady Students at the Tailor and Gutter Gutting Academy, 93 & 94 Drury Lane, London, W.C.

The season just passed has marked a new era in our Cutting Academy. One room has usually been set apart for Lady Students, but the increase in their numbers this year has been so marked as to render special provision for their accommodation necessary. It may interest some of our patrons, and at the same time form a reply to many enquiries we are constantly receiving, if we give a brief outline of our course of procedure generally, in our Lady Students' department. This is not rigorously followed, as the individual capacities and requirements of each Student have to be studied, so as to give to each, just that instruction which will be of the most service to them. When we state that our Students come from all ranks and classes—the professional dressmaker, the lady philanthropist who desires the knowledge so that she may help others to gain a living, the lady in private life who wishes to design and make her own garments, the lady teacher who comes here to qualify herself for the position of teacher to the various Technical Schools now being opened by the County Council; as our Lady Students embrace all these, and as each have different capacities to begin with, and different ideals to realise, each needs individual treatment.

THE FIRST LESSON

Initiates our Lady Students into the mysteries of the use of the chalk, the handling the square, tape, &c., and then we proceed with skirts in their different varieties. As many of the Students desire to work out their lessons practically, they procure some material and make up the various garments as they proceed, doing the sewing at home, and bringing the garment with them at the Academy for inspection and advice; as to the correctness of their progress.

Skirt cutting, making, and draping are soon mastered, and then they pass on to the more difficult task of bodice and jacket cutting. This needs more application and patience to master than the skirt ; but in the course of one lesson the principles are grasped, and in most cases, by the end of the second or third day, the bodice and jacket can be drafted to any measures with proficiency and ease. Then the Lady Student, if she so desires, proceeds to make up a bodice or jacket, cut by herself, and as she proceeds, all

THE MYSTERIES OF MANIPULATION

Are explained to her : the making and fitting up, sewing the scams, the putting in the bone casing, the canvas, the pressing, the stretching and shrinking, the parts to be fulled on or held tight, sleeve and collar making, and all the great and small technical details of Ladies' Practical Tailoring are fully and minutely explained as she proceeds, and when the garment is got into a satisfactory state, then follows :

A PRACTICAL LESSON IN FITTING,

Detailing the points that require to be specially noticed, the methods to follow, the mode of making alterations explained, the importance of studying customers' views emphasized, the difference of material, and then, as occasion may offer, the Instructor replies to any queries that may be put by the Lady Students, which occur to them either in connection with the lessons in Cutting, or the making or manipulating of the garments they cut, each having their own difficulties and for which they each seek a remedy.

The above is the first page of our New Prospectus of Terms and Arrangements in connection with the laddies' Branch of our Cutting Academy — which will be 6ent to any address on receipt of stamp for postage.