135 Rare Old Books on Mens Tailoring suits fitting cutting drafting pattern making alterations coat trousers - Instant PDF Download

THE VINTAGE GENTLEMAN'S TAILORING COLLECTION

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The Digital Library is proud to present this stunning virtual archive of 135 rare, vintage and hard-to-find books compiled together for the first time in one unique virtual library and covering all aspects of GENTLEMAN’S TAILORING.

Discover the secrets behind designing men’s suits and garments. Learn how to measure up, draft and cut all types of gentleman’s clothing. All aspects and numerous methods for cutting garments are explained as well as methods for making alterations. This wonderful collection of vintage tailoring books and guides is an absolute must for anyone with an interest in designing and creating men’s clothes.

Some of these books are extremely rare and will provide a valuable reference archive for anyone with an interest in tailoring for gentleman and boys. The full list of titles speaks for itself!

This wonderful collection of 135 rare books provides literally 1,000’s of pages of great content and fabulous illustrations / photos for the reader. This is a DIGITAL item! All of the books have been scanned in high quality and preserved forever in pdf format - easy to read on your laptop, computer, tablet, smartphone, kindle or e-reader. You can also print entire books or select pages.


The Full List of Titles Included is as Follows:

12 blank trimmings cost sheets and suit cost and selling price tables to be used in connection with cost and selling price for merchant tailors (c1916)

A complete handbook of tailoring and shop management on the sectional or group system by F. Deiner (1920)

A complete system of cutting by W. Brundage (1867)

A dictionary of men's wear by W. H. Baker (1908)

A scientific guide to practical cutting by W. Glencross (1873)

A treatise on cutting garments to fit the human form containing fifty diagrams and designs reduced to mathematical principles by Scott & Wilson (1841)

A treatise on the measurement of the human body and the art of cutting materials for gentlemen's clothes by W. Selle (1873)

Acton's improved system of actual measurement by W. R. Acton (1867)

Acton's improvements on The tailor's transfer by W. R. Acton (1862)

Alterations and how to make them by International association of clothing designers(1918)

Buying men's suits by C. L. Scott (1919)

Campbell's clothing advertising brochure by F. S. Evanson (1921)

Carbery's practical work on coat cutting by J. J. Carbery (1896)

Clothes dictionary by W. H. Baker (1901)

Complete sewing instructions by M. Russel (1917)

Concerning the urgent necessity for, and the vast advantages of, the Thomson cutting method by C. H. Thomson (1913)

Corticelli Home Needlework by L. Barton (1898)

Cost and selling price for merchant tailors by C. V. Beeman (1916)

Crawford's system on the science and art of garment cutting by W. T. Crawford (1874)

Der zuschneider wie er sein soll, oder, Gründliche anweisung zum selbst-unterricht im zuschneiden von S. Geer (1854)

Designing boys' and juveniles' clothing; a complete and reliable system for drafting all kinds of garments by H. Simons (1922)

Designing overcoat patterns for men and young men by H. Simons (1916)

Designing sack coats, dress coats and vests by H. Simons (1918)

Die lehre der körpermessung und der kunst des zuschneidens von herrenkleidern by W. Selle (1873)

Directions for cutting garments with the Davis improved square by M. Davis (1888)

Distinctive Clothes, How To Select And Make Them An Intermediate Course by F. Consalus (1920)

Divisional and exact measurement systems for garment cutting by W. O. Linthicum (1876)

Dr. Wampen's world renowned system of anthropometry as simplified and Americanized by J. Hutcheson (1903)

Drafting cotton garments and mackinaws by H. Simons (1918)

Drafting pants and overalls by H. Simons (1916)

Dress - a magazine for men illustrating the new styles for fall and winter 1910-11 (1910)

Efficiency in clothing by R. S. Reed (1921)

Elements of garment cutting by J. O. Madison (1878)

Erste franzsisch-amerikanische lehr-methode des zuschneidens für herrn und knaben anzüge von E. M. Greenstein (1895)

Every day alterations by J. A. Carlstrom (1916)

Facts versus fables about the present cost of good clothing (1920)

Fall and Winter, 1890-91 Fashion Catalogue by H. O'Neill and Co. (1890)

Garment cutting in the twentieth century by G. F. Hertzer (1892)

Garment cutting self-taught by E. Abercrombie (1889)

Garment drafting by simple rule method by M. M. Gingles (1907)

Gordon's work on cutting men's garments by S. S. Gordon (1910)

Grand edition of Supreme system for producing men's garments by F. T. Croonborg (1907)

H. Matheson's scientific and practical guide for the tailor's cutting department by H. Matheson (1871)

Hansen's seamless and artistic frock coat system by H. J. Hansen (1889)

Human proportions in growth exemplified in a chart, showing the complete measurement of the human body by D. E. Ryan (1879)

If they came back for Easter Sunday - how the famous figures of history would look as Royal Tailored men by The Royal tailors (1916)

Instruction book for the standard tailor system by H. P. Evan (1896)

Madison's method by breast or shoulder measures, and operated with the ordinary square or with a graduated scale or graduated square by J. O. Madison (1885)

Madison's shoulder measure coat and vest systems improved, and elements of garment cutting by J. O. Madison (1885)

Make-overs from coats and suits by C. L. Scott (1921)

Manual - True guide to practical cutting by W. Glencross (1866)

Manual of apparel drafting and sewing by M. G. Kunz (1914)

Mending Men's Suits by C. L. Scott (1921)

Men's outfitter - Fall & Winter, 1894-1895 by E. P. Peyser, New York (1894)

Men's ready made clothing by Sears, Roebuck and Company (1906)

Morse made clothing Spring & Summer, 1907 by Leopold Morse Co. (1907)

New standard trousers and breeches systems, self-varying in distribution of material and in balance; an encyclopedia of styles in trousers and breeches for all sizes and forms (1908)

New supreme system for production of men's garments by F. T. Croonborg (1917)

Our advance agent by Work Bros & co. (1893)

Popular gentleman system for cutting and designing of men's garments (1917)

Practical hand-book for tailors & seamstresses for self-instruction by F. O. Vogel (1883)

Practical instruction, how to alter ill-fitting garments and how to handle try-ons, showing illustrations how to avoid faults from the beginning by W. Lehmann(1919)

Praktyczny podrecznik krawiecki kroju meskiego, zestawil i ulozy by J. Sankowski (1917)

Prof. M. Kaphan's kid glove-fitting system for ladies', misses', children's and gents' garments by M. Kaphan (1890)

Proportionate system of coat cutting by C. Hecklinger (1883)

Report of the present fashions, with the square rules and variations to fit the human shape by J. G. Wilson (1827)

Report on men’s clothing industry, by A. A. Imberman (1916)

Salisbury's great pantaloons system, devoted to the æsthetics of pantaloons cutting, etc. by W. Salisbury (1871)

Schulman's system of garment cutting, coat and vest measure and adjustable trouser system by L. Schulman (1916)

Sewing and textiles by M. Matthews (1921)

Sewing machines by R. C. Cook (1922)

Short methods; a treatise on cutting, designing & manufacturing men's clothing by C. A. Snodgrass (1911)

Simplified sewing by E. Dodson (1921)

Standard work on cutting by The Jno J. Mitchell Co. (1886)

Stone's advanced superlative trouser system, based upon the proportions of the human form by J. C. Stone (1913)

Stone's new superlative coat and vest system, based upon the proportions of the human form by J. C. Stone (1900)

Stone's new superlative trouser system, based upon a scientific, sure and simple method by J. C. Stone (1901)

Stone's paramount-cutter; a system for cutting garments, based upon scientific principles, including the self-varying shoulder in connection with the division of the breast-measure (1891)

Stone's scientific system of grading patterns for men's garments by C. J. Stone (1912)

Straight shoulder rules, systems and methods of the present day by O. T. Doolittle (1901)

Streiff's system of garment cutting by E. L. Streiff (1913)

Style book - fall & winter, 1905 by Hart, Schaffner & Marx (1905)

Styles for men a book issued to show authoritatively what is fashionable and correct for fall and winter 1907-'08 by Kuppenheimer and Company (1907)

Suits for the small boy by C. L. Scott (1921)

Tables. Giving the quantity of cloth and trimmings required in making men's and boys' clothing by C. Hecklinger (1878)

Textiles and clothing by K. Watson (1907)

The adjustable pantaloon system by C. H. Scott (1888)

The Alfred Scott system of actual measure of coat and vest by P. Colavita (1906)

The American coat, vest and trousers system by S. S. Gordon (1895)

The American garment cutter by S. Regal (1904)

The American pattern grader; a complete, practical, up-to-date work on the grading of patterns for men's garments, the use of block patterns, alterations and how to make them by S. Regal (1917)

The Americanized French cutting method by A. H. Proud (1906)

The art of designing, cutting and grading gentlemen and boys clothes with elegance and perfection without the aid of a teacher by A. Alessio (1906)

The Arvidson coat and vest system by P. N. Arvidson (1891)

The clothing trades industry by B. W. Poole (1920)

The Copeland method; a complete manual for cleaning, repairing, altering and pressing all kinds of garments for men and women by V. Copeland (1908)

The cutter and guide by A. Koch (1883)

The designer by S. Schuman (1911)

The excelsior trousers cutter by R. Phillips (1892)

The garment trades by E. Bryner (1916)

The geometric - a system of cutting garments for ladies and gentlemen on geometrical lines and principles by J. Denieffe (1900)

The great balance-measure system, for cutting coats, vests, pants, cloaks, and shirts by W. Brockaway (1864)

The Holmes cutter. A practical system for garment cutting that is based on selfvarying principles for block patterns by N. Holmes (1894)

The incline method by Moore & Radcliffe (1889)

The International cutting school's system of cutting by L. Gibson (1913)

The international encyclopedia of scientific tailor principles, for all kinds and styles of garment-making by D. C. Christner (1885)

The Keif method of cutting coats and vests by F. A. Keif (1899)

The keystone systems, coats, vests and trousers by C. Hecklinger (1903)

The modern designer. A work showing the natural way of producing garments that are perfectly balanced by L. N. Bishop (1900)

The new dressmaker; sewing, dressmaking and tailoring, from the actual stitches to the cutting, ... ladies, misses, girls, children, infants, men and boys (1921)

The Royal Tailors junior sample book (1916)

The Schulman system of garment cutting by L. Schulman (1904)

The science of coat and vest cutting by H. G. Kennedy (1891)

The science of grading patterns for men's, boys' and children's clothing by H. Simons (1916)

The scientific tailor, based on geometry by E. L. Phelps (1904)

The secret of successful tailoring by E. Watkins (1910)

The self-instructor by C. Moore (1892)

The sewing machine - an historical and practical exposition of the sewing machine from its inception to the present time by L. Lyons (1921)

The tailor; new system of drafting direct from the measurement taken with a tape measure, without any instrument, for all the various forms of the human body by L. Phyliky (1867)

The tailors' director, containing an important discovery for fitting the human shape by J. Jackson (1833)

The tailors' guide - containing systems of draughting frock and sack coats, pants, vests and shirts by L. Cole (1868)

The tailor's scientific guide; being a mathematical principle for balancing, drafting, and cutting pantaloons by A. S. De Lany (1849)

The tailors' transfer; or, A new and improved system of measurement and garment cutting by W. Acton (1846)

The taylors' instructor, or, A comprehensive analysis, of the elements of cutting garments, of every kind by J. Queen (1809)

The U. S. A. system of ladies & gentlemen's garments cutting by F. Spikman (1918)

The young crook's guide by W. Schweinhart (1851)

Thirty years at the cutting-board being a work designed to assist the student to acquire knowledge in the art of cutting by W. Larder (1882)

V.B. Depierris & co.'s French rule of proportions (1841)

Vest cutting, a manual for the practical tailor and cutter by C. Hecklinger (1883)

Weir's balance and proof measure system, for cutting coats, calculated to fit all variety of shapes, with unerring certainty by R. Weir (1855)

Wendorf's practical cutting method; a new system which enables one to take correct measurements and draft patterns for ladies' and men's garments by W. Wendorf (1913)



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