Recognizing the great and growing need of a reliable and comprehensive
text book on ladies’ tailoring, and in response to the innumerable
inquiries for such a work that have come to the writer during the past
few years, the systems and technical information given in these pages
were made and compiled. The systems are the outgrowth of the practical
experience of the author and of many others who are expert in ladies’
tailoring, and combine simplicity and accuracy as they were never before
combined in the systematic delineation of ladies’ garments.
They are essentially the same as those published by the same author some
years ago, the principles of which have been demonstrated to be sound by
severe and long continued tests under every variety of condition; but
they have been so improved as scarcely to be recognized and are, for all
practical purposes, new systems. That this work contains a larger amount
of valuable information about ladies’ tailoring than is contained in all
other works on the subject ever published, will be cheerfully admitted,
we are sure, by any one who carefully studies it.