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 IN CUTTING AND MAKING Being the product of many eminent practical Cutters. FORMING A Highly Instructive & Valuable Treatise.

The combined wisdom of upwards of fifty leading cutters is laid down in Essay Competitions, showing their plans of meeting disproportion, the methods they adopt to hide the deformities of their customers; how they have rsade men with humps on their backs presentable; how they altered the appearance of men with shoulders of various shapes; and made them all appear nearer the ideal image of man than their own misshapen bodies indicated. Besides, all this, style has received very able treatment the many varieties being clearly defined, the special features to be observed in producing each to perfection explicitly laid down, and many little "wrinkles" of the most useful nature explained.

The various methods of manipulation are fully explained, consequently making this work a most useful and valuable addition to our trade literature.

It also contains a number of beautifully Engraved Diagrams, illustrating the various features dealt with.

, THIRD EDITION.

At this time when competition runs so high, and prices must be cut so fine, it has become forcibly impressed upon us, that a work might very advantageously be devoted to. We had little difficulty in selecting an author of thorough practical experience for this work, Mr. Falconer having devoted special attention to the matter of Economy. Many of our readers will recollect that when some years ago we offered a prize for the best and most economical " lays," Mr. Falconer carried off the First Prize. We are satisfied no one is better qualified to reduce the whole subject of Economy to a system adaptable to every garment or series of garments, which are to be cut out of the same material, at the same time. The completeness with which Mr. Falconer has done his work will be found in the fact of its containing no less than Ranging from one to four garments on each lay or illustration. Price 7/6. Post free, 7/9.

This work contains all that is of practical value to the Cutter in Wampen's Works.

There are comparatively very few Cutters of the present day who know anything more of Dr. Wampen than as a name of great repute— a kind of Shakespeare in Cutting. As is well known, the Doctor's works during late years cannot be procured at any price; and when procured, they are few indeed who have either the time or the patience to study them sufficiently so as to turn them to any practical account. Still, as the Docter's works contain a mine of wealth in the way of sound basis and principles for cutting. The difficulty in the way of their practical application has now been overcome.

MODEL PATTERNS. By Mr. Falconer

All who cut by Block or Model Patterns—and they are now a largely increasing number—should procure this very elaborate and highly instructive work. The increasing number of those who use Model Patterns is doubtless due in a large measure to the reliability, both in fit and style, of the patterns supplied at the Tailor and Cutter Office; but still these Patterns are necessarily adapted to proportionate or ordinarily well made figures, while the Art of Cutting consists in adapting a pattern to any customer's form of the same breast measure. It is but a minority, we fear of those who cut by Model Patterns that are capable of doing so. Here, then, is a work prepared expressly for those who cannot adapt their Model Patterns as we have described. Such a work, we repeat, should be in the hands of everyone who uses Model Patterns.

POLYTECHNIC

Embracing the experience of 35 years, as Cutter, Teacher and Author; including also all ideas of practical value which have app eared in his pre vious works, setforth in the simplest and most practical form The exhaustive manner in which each subject brought under notice is discussed, makes this work more of an educator than any we have hitherto published. It is not simply giving so many systems or applications of systems to certain garments, but we have here everything relating to the cutting and manipulation of those garments.

POLYTECHNIC

With a view of giving completeness to the Series of the Doctor's Works, a work on Vests has also been prepared, embodying the whole subject of Vest Cutting in all variety of styles. An especial feature of this work is its embracing a series of 8 beautifully; engraved Plates showing all the new and fashionable styles of Vests; also 5 Plates of Diagrams illustrating the System and instructions contained in the work.

Critical, Practical, AND SYSTEMATICAL

As most of our readers are aware, Dr. Humphreys has been a diligent student of the Art and Science of Cutting, and has studied minutely the whole range of contemporary literature for a period of 35 years. He has also taken part in all the leading controversies of that period, and has come to be regarded as the leading authority on all matters relating to Cutting.

Such a work as this, our readers may easily imagine, is the result of no small amount of study and labour. No expense has been spared, as a glance at the Volume itself will show, in getting up the diagrams and work generally in excellent form. We are, however, desirous of publishing it at a price such as to bring it with in the range of all classes, viz.,

In One Complete Volume.

Now that this Series of Works by the Dr. is complete, we have prepared them together in one substantial and very handsome volume. This embraces the Four Works, particulars of which peecede this notice, viz,

The value of this volume in its complete form will be apparent to al! who can appreciate high class Practical Teaching in the Art and Science of Cutting.

Jacket BY JAS. THOMSON.

{{center|{{larger|Embracing Systems and Instructions for producing all the New and popular Styles of Ladies' Tailor made Garments, including Jackets, Ulsters, Costumes, Habits, Trains, &c.}}

So frequently are very material changes introduced into the styles of Ladies' Jackets, Dolmans, &c., as made by tailors, that no standard work could be published upon them which would remain of continuous value. Hence the demand on almost each returning season for a revised Edition, or an entirely new work, treating of the latest styles of these Garments.

The Work we now announce is entirely new, while the reputation of its Author will be sufficient guarantee both as to its completeness, its reliability and excellence. Thirty-five Plates illustrate all the new and popular garments now being made in high-class tailoring firms, the styles being represented by many beautifully engraved figures.

{{center|{{xx-larger|The School of Art}} {{larger|EXAMINATIONS.}}}}

{{smaller|BEING THE CANDIDATES' PAPERS,— QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, WHICH FORMED PART OF THE EXAMINATIONS HELD AT " THE TAILOR AND CUTTER " OFFICE RECENTLY, TO WHICH IS ADDED A SUMMARY AND REVIEW BY THE AUTHORS OF EACH OF THE SERIES OF QUESTIONS.}}

{{c|EDITED BY JOHN WILLIAMSON.}}

This somewhat extensive work is formed of the answers of the twelve Candidates for honours to the questions in the papers given. To the answers of eaoh paper is added a Summary and Review of the whole, by the Author of the paper, which in each case is highly interesting and instructive—the whole forming such a compendium of instruction and wisdom, as has never been published before in such a form. The work itself considerably exceeds in bulk what we had anticipated, but we are still desirous of bringing it within the reach of all our readers. {{c|'''Price 4s. 6d. Post free, 4s. 9d.'''}}

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