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dressdiaries posts suggesting a book written by a late 19th century tailor who patterned out a lot of the British military uniforms, including trim placement (!!!)
An obvious must have! A quick Google search found scans from the book, which I've downloaded but have yet to unzip. Nice to have a sneak preview before I go to the effort of asking for an inter-library loan!
As it's out of print I should also go slinking throughjlsjlsjls' list of online libraries. I'm very interested in trim placement, if only because I'm still not sure at which stage of creation it was applied, or even how it was fixed to the jacket.
jadecat9 kindly left a comment to one of my dressdiaries posts suggesting a book written by a late 19th century tailor who patterned out a lot of the British military uniforms, including trim placement (!!!) An obvious must have! A quick Google search found scans from the book, which I've downloaded but have yet to unzip. Nice to have a sneak preview before I go to the effort of asking for an inter-library loan!
As it's out of print I should also go slinking through
jlsjlsjls' list of online libraries. I'm very interested in trim placement, if only because I'm still not sure at which stage of creation it was applied, or even how it was fixed to the jacket.
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Date: 2004-09-03 09:56 pm (UTC)Odd place though it may seem to do research, one sometimes finds clothing construction/sewing details in late 19th-century novels (getting a new garment is an event in most characters' lives in the pre-off-the-rack era). One author that I'm thinking of is L.T. Meade (usually credited on the title page as "Mrs. Meade").