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Prof. J. W. Livingston
| Name | Prof. J. W. Livingston |
| Ortssitz | New York City |
| Straße | Broadway 811 |
| Art des Unternehmens | Textilimporteur |
| Anmerkungen | Adresse (um 1884): No. 811 Broadway (late of Paris). |
| Quellenangaben | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 121] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1880 |
Gründung |
| Produkt |
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bis |
Bem. |
Kommentar |
| Einfuhr von Modeartikeln |
1884 |
[New Yorks great ind. (1884)] |
1884 |
[New Yorks great ind. (1884)] |
Importer of Fashions, and Inventor and Teacher of the French Square Measure System of Dress Cutting |
| ZEIT | 1884 |
| THEMA | Firmendarstellung |
| TEXT | Prof. J. W. Livingston has proved himself a great Benefactor to a very important and a very deserving class of the community. He has linked science to art, and hand in hand his famous French square measure system of dress cutting goes with the success of every practical dressmaker. His is the only French square measure system ever patented in the United States, and is absolutely and scientifically accurate. It embodies the same principle used by the leading tailors, and does entirely away with the old style of square and fifty-six pieces of flimsy pasteboard scales to draw a straight line, and guess at all curves, but is a wooden square with the form combined, and can be learned perfectly in one third the time required to master any of the old, faulty, exploded guess-work systems. The time has come when dressmaking has become as much of an art as tailoring. Dressmakers are realizing the fact that they must become artists in their profession, and although it is universally conceded that American ladies are the best dressed in the world, yet they are nevertheless obliged to depend on French ingenuity for their styles; and in no other way can this art be acquired than by a perfect knowledge of Prof. Livingston's system. He has made it a subject of unremitting study and attention for the last twenty-six years in eight different countries, arid as a result of his scientific and talented investigations, he offers to the public the famous French combination of squares. His system is easily learned and will cut thirty-six different garments, two hundred and twenty-five different sizes, the back and front with one piece, and is the only system ever invented that teaches to read the form of the person by square measure. Prof. Livingston courts examination and challenges competition, and will give one thousand dollars to any inventor or teacher of dress cutting or any dressmaker, either in this or any other country, who can, without instructions, cut out properly a French pattern after it is accurately drafted. His system has positively been decided to be the only perfect one ever invented in the United States or Europe, and thousands of ladies are becoming artists by learning his French system, and hundreds are now holding the highest positions in the leading houses in this country. The system is simple, accurate and durable, and gives ease, grace and beauty to the form. Every curve of the figure is accurately fitted by measure, and not from guesswork or refitting, and it is not only a system of cutting, but of draping, grading and designing by measure, an art that cannot be learned by any other system ever invented. He challenges the world to improve upon it, and so popular is it that during the past year he has taught four hundred and seventy-two persons who had previously learned the defective tailor System of square and scales. Prof. Livingston is also the largest importer of fashions in the United States, all being the latent Parisian styles, and has introduced to the public the finest assortment of specialties ever brought to this country. All fashions are made to special order. A large stock of dressmakers' findings is kept constantly on hand, and he is also agent for the imported fashion journals. Prof. Livingston has now been established in business here since 1880. He occupies unusually central and elegantly furnished parlors, where he exhibits his fine stock of patterns and instructs practically in his famous system of dress cutting. |
| QUELLE | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 121] |
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