Page:The practical sketcher; a complete and practical method of sketching, for women's, misses', junior's, children's and infant's garments.djvu/10

6 THE PROBLEM OF GARMENT SKETCHING.

When beginning to sketch it is necessary for us to remember that when sketching the garment there is no such thing as a set of measures which build the sizes of sketching, all there is necessary is, that we need to employ a certain amount of space by which the entire sketch is carried out. A sketch is therefore built by bases of inches, 1 inch, ½ inch, or ¼ inch.

You will note that the instruction in the following pages, the entire method is given and described by inch spaces. These spaces are the divisions equally divided according to the height of the body which will, no doubt, prove that in order to make the proportional sketch it is necessary for the sketcher to remember to have some knowledge of obtaining proportions according to height measure for which a diagram and description is given in the continuing pages by which this method will be fully described.

It is also necessary to remember that each and every different kind of garment meaning, waists, skirts, and dresses, occupy a part of the entire height division for instance, the waist foundation occupys 2 units of this height division. The skirt occupys 5 units of height division and when the entire amount is added, which means 2 for waist and 5 for skirt, which fully amounts to 7 units which shows that we are to employ these 7 units for the full body which combines the waist and the skirt and makes a dress foundation.