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THE GEOMETRIC OF CUTTING GARMENTS FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN ON GEOMETRICAL LINES AND PRINCIPLES
A SYSTEM
BY
Joseph Denieffe
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with the confident belief that
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do so
will satisfy at least the expe-
whom
rienced and intellig-ent cutters, for
it is
intended.
It is
purely geometrical from start to finish, on geometrical lines
reduced to those indispensable to accuracy and simplicity.
These two features are conspicuous and establishing them unerringly, with the contour of the be.
It
many get
dispenses with
bringing out the points
fixing
them so they agree
no matter what the shape may
figure, all
in
measuring sticks and harness and
other devices which only confuse the artist, and often
him
into
more
trouble.
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center of back, in measuring,
angles formed in
find the
making
this the basis, all the
other points are discovered.
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and undisturbed did
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its solution, it
difficult
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I
more application, unbroken
dawn on me like a revelation so me that I was confident of its truth;
clearly did this appear to fulness.
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assurance doubly sure,
I
tested
it
on the
most extreme shapes, extra square, the sloping, round, corpulent, stooping, extra erect and on all the abnormal shapes.
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me
results of these tests warrant
in
making the above
statements.
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