Improved Franco-American Form

Excerpt from The Improved Franco-American Form: An Adjustable Instrument and Perfected Method for Draughting, Cutting, and Fitting Dresses and All Inside and Outside Garments At an outlay of many thousands of dollars, and after years of painstaking study, - a study that would be far from complete had we not thoroughly investigated every invention and system for cutting dresses which was available, and that only in an honest spirit of investigation that set aside all prejudices, and allowed us to acknowledge what was good and detect what was false, and after we had learned the experiences of many professional dressmakers who had tried all these systems, charts, and machines, and found them uncertain, deficient, and often valueless, - we put before ourselves the task to produce a method of dress-cutting that would be at once simple, thorough, artistic, and reliable; one that, having science for its basis and merit for its recommendation, would eventually repay us for time and expense borne in its getting up. Such an instrument we now have in the Improved Franco-American Form, and to the ladies of our country we offer it, confident that it will do its work thoroughly and well. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.