I’m in the beginning stages of a steampunk outfit for my boyfriend.
I’ve bought McCall’s 4745
http://mccallpattern.mccall.com/m4745-products-7030.php as a starting
point. I’m looking for some information on a slightly more
historically accurate way of constructing it than the standard modern
A good starting book is Classic Tailoring Techniques, A Construction Guide
For Men's Wear Roberto Caberera and Patricia Flaherty Meyers . Not turn of
the century but they have great step-by-step pictorial how to for
canvassing coats, etc
Sarah Paterson / Bess Darnley
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You could go to books.google.com and look for tailoring and the date
range you are interested in. I've had good luck there finding
resources I needed.
Katy
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Elizabeth Walpole
elizabeth.r.walp...@gmail.com wrote:
I’m in the beginning stages of a steampunk outfit
Hi Elizabeth
I know it may be a bit too late for the project you're working on now, but
by the end of January I will have available through Magcloud.com a series of
reprints of men's drafting and tailoring books. Scheduled is also a reprint
of a couple of tailoring books dated between 1900 and
You might also look at R L Shep's books, they might have a reprint
that could be helpful to you.
http://www.rlshep.com/
Katy
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Elizabeth Walpole
elizabeth.r.walp...@gmail.com wrote:
I’m in the beginning stages of a steampunk outfit for my boyfriend.
I’ve bought
Katy--
Have you seen archive.org ? They have some books I haven't seen elsewhere,
including scans of books on tailoring. Some of the new-to-me books were scans
of the registration copies in the Library of Congress. Many methods of
pattern drafting instructions on sewing-up.
The earliest
Oh, this is a hoot! I have a book, passed on from my husband,
Simplicity's Sewing for Men and Boys, published in 1973. It covers what I
call
traditional modern techniques--pad stitching, chest piece, mounting upper
collar to under collar by hand (which, BTW, is the ONLY way to do the
