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The Cutter’s Practical Guide to the Cutting & Making all Kinds of Trousers, Breeches, & Knickers by W.D.F. Vincent 8th Edition
The Cutter’s Practical Guide to the Cutting & Making of all Kinds of Trousers, Breeches, & Knickers, to which is added chapters dealing with the cutting & making of Highland kilts, leggings, gaiters, etc. by W.D.F. Vincent, scanned by Pat Lamprey for the Costumer’s Manifesto on 9/2/2006
Are you searching for the 1903 edition of Volume 1? It is on Archive.org!
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Continue reading The Cutter’s Practical Guide to the Cutting & Making all Kinds of Trousers, Breeches, & Knickers by W.D.F. Vincent 8th EditionThe Cutter’s Practical Guide to Jacket Cutting and Making Embracing Lounges, Reefers & Patrol Jackets in all their varieties also including the cutting and making of robes and gowns, Part 9, W.D.F Vincent, 1890s
The Cutter’s Practical Guide, Part 1 Juvenile and Youth’s Garments, W.D.F. Vincent, 1898
The Cutter’s Practical Guide to Cutting Every Kind of Garment, Part 2, Body Coats, by W.D.F. Vincent, 1893
It will come in a Plain Brown Envelope… Late 1960s Trans clothing catalog – Fine Craft, Inc
I bought this a little over two years ago in a little antique store co-op in Novato, CA. The vintage clothing dealer had discerned that I might be a proper recipient of this delightful little packet after we got into a deep discussion about the construction of masculinity/effeminacy in men’s 20th Century dress when I was buying this unusually frank (if homophobic) comic postcard of the 1890s-1900s:
We discussed my obsession with men’s collars, and his with Mid-Century Men’s Magazines, and our mutual fascination with men’s shirts. I started pawing through part of his pile of men’s magazines, found an photo spread article about Trans life in one, and he brought out this packet with a little Transvestite dress catalog, a fetish corset catalog, and many leaflets in it. They are for custom made and ordered Trans & Drag clothing from the late 1960s, and since the company appears to have long disappeared, I want to share it with the world as a little snapshot of a time. A time when Trans life was just beginning to move out of the shadows and into the light, and starting the long and difficult task of enlightening the rest of us in the world by their efforts.
c. 1902-1905 Corliss, Coon & Co. Collar Catalog
This little catalog was stamped with the name of Charles Altemus, the owner of The Opera House Hat Store in Easton, Pennsylvania which he owned from around 1896 until he went bankrupt in February of 1912.