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Excerpt from Margaret Blair System of Garment Drafting: Used in School for Girls, Agricultural Department of State University of Minnesota, And, James Industrial Training Institute, Minneapolis, Minn
In submitting to the public the result of years of labor and experience, I feel that I am responding to a genuine need and filling a place that has long been vacant or at best but inadequately filled by the use of patterns. My system is primarily for use in drafting underclothing, aprons and child ren's dresses, but it can also be used with the best of results in dressmaking. This system is so sim ple that it can be taught to children, and therefore might, without difficulty, be used in the public schools.
Beauty in personal appearance is often almost destroyed by the lack of knowledge how not to spoil the beautiful gift of nature. This knowl edge can be best inculcated in the children, and a wonderful change would soon be noticed in the appearance of young women, if in the public schools the. Little girls were taught what is proper to wear and how to make their clothing. The art of sewing really antedates history, for the first clothing of man, the skins of animals, were rough ly sewn together, yet it has never, until recently, been developed scientifically along utilitarian lines.
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About the author
Margaret Blair MA, MBA, has enjoyed three careers: as a teacher, social and financial marketing researcher, mother of three and grandmother
of three.
She is the author of two books on Shanghai of the 1930s and 1940s: one a memoir (Gudao, Lone Islet, The War Years in Shanghai) and one a historical novel (Shanghai Scarlet). Margaret is also the author of Toronto's Last Rainbow set in 1969 to 1970 Toronto. She lives with her husband, a professor emeritus of the University of Toronto, beside a stream, among Mennonite farms in southwest Ontario, Canada. For more: www.margaretblair.com...
