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The Secret of
Successful Tailoring
By EDWARD WATKINS
NEW YORK
THE MORSE-BROUGHTON CO.
Publisher! of L'ART DE LA MODE, "The Fashion AuAorily
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PREFACE
HIS little handbook is compiled from
the series of twelve articles on "The
Secret of Successful Tailoring"
which were published monthly in
L'Art de la Mode, concluding in
the April
(1910)
number. The author, Mr. Ed-
ward Watkins, who was formerly with the Mrs.
Osborn Company, is now recognized as
one of New York's most distinguished tailors
and an authority on the art of tailoring and dress-
making. Mr. Watkins writes from his wide
experience in a way that gives practical informa-
tion of inestimable value to the ambitious tailor
and dressmaker, as well as to the woman who
makes her own clothes. No new ,or essential
point on this interesting subject has been over-
looked, and we believe the chapters present the
clearest, most accurate and most condensed work
on the subject ever published.
While the articles were appearing serially in
the magazine, readers of L'Art de la Mode were
encouraged to write personally to Mr. Watkins,
who cheerfully solved for them any puzzling
problems. Many of these questions and their
THE SECRET OF
SUCCESSFUL TAILORING
answers have been incorporated in this handbook,
as we believe them to be of general interest to
those who now study the book for the first time.