Males’s Tailoring: Bespoke, Theatrical and Historic Tailoring 1830-1950

Males’s Tailoring: Bespoke, Theatrical and Historic Tailoring 1830-1950 introduces the reader to English tailoring and covers the drafting of patterns, reducing out in material, and the entire conventional development methods in sequence for the tailoring of a waistcoat, trousers and jacket. The guide accommodates:

• step-by-step directions, full with illustrations, for college kids and costumiers who’re new to the making of male tailor-made clothes from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries;

• drafting blocks and development methods for the primary three types of nineteenth century male clothes: frock coat, morning coat and costume coat;

• patterns, images and detailed measurements taken from quite a lot of male coats, jackets, waistcoats and trousers from c1830 – c1950 from museums and collections.

From choosing the proper material to making ready for the becoming course of, this how-to information will assist readers create stunning, traditionally correct three-piece fits for occasions and performances.