Excerpt from Short Methods: A Treatise on Cutting, Designing Manufacturing Men's Clothing The requirements of the Merchant Tailor and the Manufacturing Cutter are not identical. Th Merchant Tailor cuts to measure, the. Manufacturer to proportion. The one sees and measures his subject, the other must provide for his requirements in the abstract, and while the Merchant Tailor has more peculiarities of form to contend with, perhaps, he is not required to exercise the same economy of time, labor, and materials, his seams are protected by basting before sewing, and he experiences none of the difficulties of make-up which must attend the manufacture of garments on a large scale. That too small a percentage of cutters in the trade are draftsmen is well recognized. The necessary education is hard to obtain. 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.