Page:The practical sketcher; a complete and practical method of sketching, for women's, misses', junior's, children's and infant's garments.djvu/98

94 ORIGINAL IDEAS

To originate new ideas, it is somehow or other something not everyone can do, but in order to obtain such method, I will herewith give a few points on the topic, which may enlighten those who are interested to produce something of their own. To begin something of our own we must go to work and begin something entirely different from anybody else and we need to know or think of a certain foundation that such style of garment is to be built on, which may be similar to the music writer. The words and the action of a song may be new but the melody is probably not entirely new. The melody is the foundation of its draft and no doubt that such melody is not supposed to be a simple copy of some other song, if the song is supposed to be a new one, but somehow or other, it is a connection of some other tune and what is new is the words and actions. We are about in the same position to obtain something new which may be called our own original outlines We first have to create in our mind what we are to make up and then build such style. I positively warn everyone not to do anything unless he has a foundation of some kind of outline as no house of standard work is built without any foundation. It is therefore necessary to remember many other principle points to go on with this original work.