The Modern Tailor Outfitter and Clothier - Vol III

If you are curious about costumes in movies from the 1920's and 1930's, this explains how to draw the patterns for the costumesto fit any individual. This is volume 3 of 3. The paperback is more durable than the hardback.

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Excellent book

I became aware of these books early on in my career, late 90's, when a battered copy of vol 1 was passed on to me. As the internet developed with book stalls from around the world showing their stock I learnt that this book came in 3 volumes and if you did find a complete set, good condition, then it was really expensive. Good tailoring books have been rare ever since the Tailor and Cutter stopped publishing with only the American 'Classic Tailoring Techniques' been the best in recent decades. However, I have a hard copy version of CTT and have seen the poor paperback reprint still fetching a premium. So, you can imagine my scepticism at this MTO&C reprint. Having since acquired vols 1 and 2 in their various states I thought I'd take a gamble on a paperback vol 3. Here's my verdict:-Quality: This is a really good reprint, very clear and clean pages especially when compared to the ageing original. You can tell that an original copy has been photocopied as the text is slightly bowed at the top right pages as you get further into the book. This is a really minor point as the words are still clear, hence the 4 stars.Content: What I like about these books is that you can't take all the content in one go so as you keep dipping in through out your career you'll always come out with some new ideas or confirming what you'd thought. There's drafting and, rarer in books today, making techniques that adopt the very traditional ways of constructing garments. Great as a reference and useful for historical purposes. The written pieces are interesting about styles,tastes and the working times were living in and then you realise that not a lot has changed, I refer to articles on the 'emerging ready to wear killing bespoke?' and 'taking on apprentices' in vols 1 and 2.Best Volume: This vol 3 contains a lot on ceremonial wear with many accompanying drafts, not that useful to a modern day tailor outside of the specialist trade. It does show the making of trousers and the lounge coat although these are cover in the other volumes. I think vols 1 and 2 are by far the two to get and the third if you can stretch to the cost. The first two are more useful to a practising/training tailor now and if some of the making is a little old fashioned at least its somewhere to fall back on, after all it worked back then.Value: A final point to note is that the drafts and making guides are the same or similar to those featured in the Tailor and Cutter books as they're written by the same group of people so these books do cover the complete aspects of this trade.