The "Keystone" Jacket and Dress Cutter: An 1895 Guide to Women's Tailoring
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I've drafted a pattern following the jacket instructions and there are definitely some missing steps (I is never covered) and errors in the text (a 1/6 versus 1/3 mix up and I suspect that in at least one spot the wrong measurement was used as a base for the line length). This is a very useful book for producing period reproductions, but not for the novice pattern drafter. The sleeve instructions were fine, though, and I'm looking forward to making the jacket with very full sleeves from the shoulder to the elbow. Collars and cuffs are separate, as well, and you have to remember to add seam allowances around each piece. I'll try to update this once I've actually put the garment together.
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The "Keystone" Jacket and Dress Cutter - Chas Hecklinger
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THE MEASURES.
THE greatest possible care should be taken in measuring to obtain correct lengths and widths, as only right measures will enable us, in drafting, to define the size and position or attitude of the form measured.
We must, therefore, take the measures from and to accurately located points.
The height of the neck can be easily and correctly located by the eye, and the front and bottom of the arm by the use of a small square ; but the waist line, which is a measuring station of the greatest importance, must be defined as follows :
Place an elastic band around the waist, just above the hips, and adjust it so that it is perfectly level.
Whether the waist a’s to be long or short, the band must be placed as directed; the actual waist length can then be increased or diminished according to style or Laste.
As the measures that terminate at the belt govern the balance of the garment and indicate attitude, the importance of adjusting it accurately and always over the same part of the waist will be apparent.
Having adjusted the belt, proceed as follows :
THE BACK LENGTH.
Apply the measuring tape to the socket bone at the neck as marked by A, Figure 1, and measure down to the lower edge of the belt, which gives the actual length of the back.
Should we desire to make the waist longer or make it appear so, because taste or style requires it, take what extra length may be suggested before removing the tape from the neck.
For a jacket we continue down to the point where the bottom should be, and for a long ulster, to the floor, as to D and E.
FRONT LENGTH.
Placing the tape to the same point at neck, carry it along the neck, and let it fall over the shoulder past the front of the arm. It should not be drawn down close against the arm but should pass from 1 to 1½ inch in front of it, but not over the bust, straight down to the bottom of the belt at the side, as shown on Figure 2, where the point is marked