Excerpt from Instruction Book for the Standard Tailor System: A Self-Instructor With Object Lessons in the Art of Cutting All Styles of Garments, for Ladies, Gentlemen, Children and Infants The Scales number from 18 to 51 and show by their numbers; the number of inches they represent, and are, without a doubt, the most. Comprehensive and complete Scales ever offered to the public. The Book of Instruction contains Object Lessons, Illustrations and Diagrams of ladies' gentlemen's, children's and infants' garments. The Object Lesson Square, Scales and Rulers are to aid the learner in self-instruction and together with the Object Lessons to act as the ever ready teacher. 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.