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Tailoring (Women's)

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• Women's clothing
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• Tailoring (Women's) -- United States

• The Weiler Ladies Tailor--Dressmaker, Designer, Cutter and Fitter Book (1915), by Sigmond Georg Weiler (page images at Wisconsin)
• Correct Clothing Methods (second edition; Dallas: Green and Co., 1948), by Shirley Marie Green (page images at HathiTrust)
• A tailoring manual (Macmillan, 1956), by Gertrude Strickland (page images at HathiTrust)
• A tailoring manual (Burgess Publishing Co., 1947), by Gertrude Strickland (page images at HathiTrust)
• A tailoring manual (Burgess publishing co., 1944), by Gertrude Strickland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pattern grading, simplified; a manual for grading women's, misses', juniors' and children's dresses, suits and coats. (Fairchild Publications, 1948), by Jack Kirschner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tailored garments: Tailored suits, coats, and capes. Garments for men and boys. (Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences, 1931), by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences (page images at HathiTrust)
• Weidel's instruction book for those using Weidel's combined tailor square and curves; a complete treatise on drafting ladies' and children's garments by the square and curves combined (Weidel Ladies' Tailoring College Co.], 1914), by Joseph Anton Weidel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The practical designer, for women's, misses', juniors' & children's cloaks & suits, shirt waist suits and dresses, with grading and special measurements, according to the most approved & up-to-date method; specially designed for self instruction ([Printed by Maisel bros.], 1911), by I. Rosenfeld (page images at HathiTrust)
• American dressmaker (The American College of Dressmaking, 1909), by Pearl Merwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American system of dressmaking (The American college of dressmanking, 1912), by Pearl Merwin and Kansas City American college of dressmaking (page images at HathiTrust)
• The expert designer; a practical and up-to-date work on the art of designing and pattern-making of women's cloaks, suits, waists, dresses and skirts (American Pattern Company, 1917), by Saul Schorr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Glickstein's system; ladies', misses' and children's garments, practical methods of designing according to proportions. (The Reich Printing Co., 1909), by Philip Glickstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Weidel's instruction book for those using Weidel's combined tailor square and curves; a complete treatise on drafting ladies' and children's garments by the square and curves combined (St. Louis, Mo., 1910), by Joseph Anton Weidel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Weiler ladies tailor--dressmaker, designer, cutter and fitter book. (S.G. Weiler, 1915), by Sigmond Georg Weiler and University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fitting dresses and blouses (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1927), by Maude Campbell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The practical designer. An encyclopedia to designers and cutters ... Specially designed for self-instruction (The Leading Pattern Co., 1918), by I. Rosenfeld (page images at HathiTrust)
• The "standard" work on cutting ladies' tailor-made garments : a complete treatise on the art and science of delineating all garments for women made by tailors (The Jno. J. Mitchell Co., 1908), by S. S. Gordon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The secret of successful tailoring. (The Morse-Broughton co., 1910), by Edward Watkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cutters' practical guide to the cutting of ladies' garments... (J. Williamson, 1890), by W. D. F. Vincent (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'art de s'habiller soi-même leçons choisies de coupe française en usage dans les écoles professionnelles du gouvernement et de la ville de Paris, classées et arrangées pour l'enseignement au Canada (E. Boudet, 1905), by Marie Boudet (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to measure, alter and fit. (Singer Sewing Machine Co., 1960), by Singer Sewing Machine Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern method of women's & children's garment design: measurement charts, pattern drafting, grading. (Modes Apparel Co., 1956), by A. Gebbia (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• How to make ladies' coats and suits. (Kogos International Corp, 1962), by Samuel Heath (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• How to tailor a woman's suit. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1968), by United States. Agricultural Research Service and Margaret Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to tailor a woman's suit (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1956), by Margaret Smith and United States. Agricultural Research Service. Clothing and Housing Research Branch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Outline for studying grading of the basic patterns used in making women's, misses' juniors' and children's dresses, suits and coats : based on the author's book, pattern grading, simplified (Fairchild Publications, 1949), by Jack Kirschner (page images at HathiTrust)

• The "standard" work on cutting ladies' tailor-made garments. A complete treatise on the art and science of delineating all garments for women made by tailors. (J.J. Mitchell Co., 1901), by S. S. Gordon (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Clothing for Women: Selection, Design, Construction: A Practical Manual for School and Home (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1918), by Laura I. Baldt (page images at Wisconsin)
• The Well-Dressed Woman: A Study in the Practical Application to Dress of the Laws of Health, Art, and Morals (New York: Fowler and Wells Co., 1892), by Helen Gilbert Ecob
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• Woman as Decoration: A Costume Book (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1920), by Emily Burbank (page images at Wisconsin)
• Color and Line in Dress (revised edition; New York: Prentice-Hall, c1938), by Laurene Hempstead, illust. by Sara Whitney Olds (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our girls (Harper & Brothers, 1871), by Dio Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The well-dressed woman: a study in the practical application to dress of the laws of health, art, and morals. (Fowler & Wells Co., 1893), by Helen Gilbert Ecob (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lady's toilette : containing a critical examination of the nature of beauty, and of the causes by which it is impaired : with instructions for preserving it to advanced age : an historical sketch of the fashions of France and England : directions for dressing with taste and elegance : and receipts for preparing all the best and most harmless cosmetics proper for a lady's use (Printed for W.H. Wyatt, 1808), by Auguste Caron (page images at HathiTrust)
• Female beauty, as preserved and improved by regimen, cleanliness and dress : and especially by the adaptation, colour and arrangement of dress, as variously influencing the forms, complexion, and expression of each individual, and rendering cosmetic impositions unnecessary (Thomas Hurst, 65, St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1837), by A. Walker, John William Wright, E. T. Parris, M. Gauci, and Anthony Carlisle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Satyrische Abhandlung von den Krankheiten der Frauenspersonen, welche sie sich durch ihren Putz und Anzug zuziehen (in German), by Christian Tobias Ephraim Reinhard (Gutenberg ebook)
• Beehive for Bairns, Vol. 2: From 1st Size to 2 Years: With Special Supplement: Bed Jackets (Gutenberg ebook)
• Woman as Decoration, by Emily Burbank (Gutenberg ebook)

• Dresses and bonnets and ribbons. (Lord & Taylor, 1870), by Lord & Taylor and Seymour B. Durst (page images at HathiTrust)

• Female beauty, as preserved and improved by regimen, cleanliness and dress : and especially by the adaptation, colour and arrangement of dress, as variously influencing the forms, complexion, and expression of each individual, and rendering cosmetic impositions unnecessary (Thomas Hurst, 65, St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1837), by A. Walker, John William Wright, E. T. Parris, M. Gauci, and Anthony Carlisle (page images at HathiTrust)

• Nothing to wear : an episode of city life : from Harpers weekly (J. Bradburn, 1862), by William Allen Butler and Augustus Hoppin (page images at HathiTrust)

• La femme en culotte (Paris : Ernest Flammarion, éditeur, [1899?], 1899), by John Grand-Carteret, Gustave Girrane, and Fernand Fau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Blouse and skirt manufacturing industries (United States Government Printing Office, 1935), by United States National Recovery Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Blouse and skirt manufacturing industries (United States Government Printing Office, 1935), by United States National Recovery Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Blouse and skirt manufacturing industries (United States Government Printing Office, 1935), by United States National Recovery Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Blouse and skirt manufacturing industries (United States Government Printing Office, 1934), by United States National Recovery Administration (page images at HathiTrust)

• Consumer satisfaction with women's blouses. Part I, Field study in four communities in the northeast (Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Rhode Island, 1959), by Ruth Ayres, Mary C. Whitlock, and Mary Ryan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Factors related to satisfaction with girls' blouses and slips : a comparison of mothers' and adolescent daughters' opinions (New York Agricultural Experiment Station, 1965), by Mary S. Ryan (page images at HathiTrust)

• American Dresses 1790-1900: Identification and Significance of 148 Extant Dresses (second edition, expanded; Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, 2020), by Elsie Frost McMurry, ed. by Susan W. Greene, illust. by Cathie Simpson (PDF at Cornell)
• Dresses designed for little girls (Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics, Agricultural Research Administration, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1949), by Clarice L. Scott (page images at HathiTrust)

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