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THE PRACTICAL DESIGNER

'INTRODUCTION

ECOGNIZING the needs of a more up-to-date work on designing and pattern cutting for women's, misses', juniors', children's and infants' garments with all its branches, I continue this revised edition with a much greater development on the garment problem. Through many years of practical experience in teaching methods of designing and garment cutting for women's, misses', juniors', children's and infants' garments, and through a wide acquaintance with the needs of the trade, I have learned that a more simplified method of designing and pattern making is needed. I have therefore set my mind to a more clearly understood view of describing the art in many different calculations and to have it more and more simplified, which will be more acceptable to the student.

In my last publication, I have shown some of these views, which I am glad to say has been greatly appreciated and to show to my book-lovers that I appreciate their patronage, I now continue my work in a more up-to-date and practical way. Designers and pattern cutters will find this work of great value for its contents, as I have tested and found out all suggestions for all sorts of garment cutting; scales of several methods; calculations by which everyone who is interested will find his own views in them as they are fully explained in each foundation of garmentdom, which has been used in the past or which may be created in the future for women's, misses', juniors', children's and infants' garments.

The interest of this work impresses me to write such system from the out-grow of my long experience of teaching methods of designing and pattern cutting, as I fully believe that this method will lead everyone who studies this work to a mechanical controlling of up-to-date designing and pattern cutting for all kinds of female garments, as this work is to be a combination of simplicity and accuracy, which has never been published on these details. The natural result, I believe, will be found only by those who will carefully study this work and carefully read its pages, one by one, and will study the great many explanatory pages on this subject and also its practical points and how their effects are combined of many years traveling through the field, which leads to the most practical controlling without hesitation