The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1838-04-28
Important TO Tailorst
PATENT ELASTIC SQUARE
AND
SeTf.VaryiHg Square Rule,

AND
SeIf-varying Square Rule,
For measuring and drafting coats, in com
nection with another new and useful rule
for cutting sale OF boys coats upon more
familiar plan also, superior rules for cut
ting all other garments incumbent on that
branch, are now offered to the trade by the
subscribers; beliyng them to surpass eve
ry thing of the kind which has preceded
them.
SELF-VARYING RULE.
Great imperfeciions in the art and labil-
tiles to produce miss-fit have been stand-
ing before the cutter ever since the intro
duction of rules, filling the mind with fear
and anxiety, until the coat is finished and
tried on, at which crisis the blood is often
caused to rush into the face at beholding
bad fitting coat. II
The rules, with one or two exceptions,
which have been in use ever since the first
invention of the kind, were wholly predi-
Gated upon principles giving the same pro-
portion for every man, which principles
would long since have been superseded by
| seIl-varying rules, had talors but thought
that the variation in the proportions ofmen's
bodies are almost as many as in the eature
of the face.
Two or three rules styled Se}f-Uarying,
have made their appearance within about as
many years, each inventor claiming the hon
or OF having perfected the art, upon which J.
! G. Wilson, OF New York, entitled his svs-
ten perfect; but instead of being perfect,
| it contains many erroneous principles, which
the subscribers forbear to point ont until
that gentleman assalls this assertion. All
g systems have heretofore been defective
in two ways: First. they are only in part
sell-varying. Secondly, those parts which
are intended TO he self-varving are drfgciive.
In fact. there are certain points on the coat
which cannot be effected by self varying
principles in any other way, nor by any
other means, than those laid down by l9f
subscribers.
Unlike any other of the kind, this sys
TEN now offered to the trade is conduce
without any breast measure, and effects "
cry point and every part of the coat by SELF
varying principles, in way calculated TO
convict the senses of any reasonable man,
that should it ever fail To produce good I'll
upon any shape " htever, the charge must
he laid to careless and incorrect measures
ment 1t may seem mysterious that this
rule is said to be sef-varying, and vcta
square rule--a square rule and vet condue-
ed without breast measure hut the whee
mystery viii be unioided at once by exah.
nation. Unwilling 70 have it'sa1u mai (
subscribers are attempting to palnW this 81
lem upon the trade with misrepresM Mentation
they ayow their willingness TO suv vbmit it i
TO the hands of an impartial com NpiIttee f
an examination OF its principles, in compa
isnn with any other ever inventeN in II
United States, at Philadelphia or New Yorl
which committee shall make the deeS5o
known through the press. The subsdr
hers set all systems which are goverhe
wholly by the breast measure aside as Va
ierior and not worthy TO compare With
consequently they will compare with nob,
but such as are governed in part BY sell
varying principles. For if the principlt
here offered to the trade are not worthy b
patronage IT is right that it should be mad
known, and they sink into oblivion. On TIL
contrary, u lHVi dlc iouHu az dnoEe TtpIts
ented, or if thereby the subscribers have pu
an end 10 all further mprovementsfp tn
, art Of cutting coats they deserve sohe,-pat
ronage and compensation for their eYeStions
T,rns-if iorwirled to order s i, if per.
; sonally taught Si2
CHARLES KAHLER,
WILLIAM KAllLER
Bloomsbury, Pa. Feb. !, 1885,