Dear All,
It is interesting how an apprentice bespoke tailor simply dismisses
all of the old pre-metric measures when he writes:
But as most English literature is written using the Imperial system,
instead of themetric system, we "mainland european tailors" will
almost always use German literature, or literature available in our
own language …
I have no doubt that this tailor will not only never import anything
in to the Netherlands from the UK or the USA, he won't even think to
do so! A small loss for exports from the UK or the USA but I suspect
that there are many more like him in this all-metric world.
You can see this in context at:
http://rbakkerkleermaker.blogspot.com/2010/05/patterns-cloth-marking-pattern-drafting.html
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
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