The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1838-05-05
Important to Tailors
PATENT ELASTIC sQUApy
AND
SeIf.varyiIag Square Teule.

ScEfavaPying Square Rule,
For measuring and drafting coats, in cor
nection with another new and useful rnl
for cutting sale OF boys coats upon a morl
familiar plan; also, superior rules for cnt
ting all other garments incumbent ON ,bo
branch, are now offered to the trade bv ,bO
subscribers; beliving them to surpass evs
ry thing of the kind which has preceedei
them.
SELF-VARYING RULE, ~
Great imperfectons in the art and liaBHI
tiles 10 produce a miss-ht have been stand
ing before the cutter ever since the intro
ducdon of rules, filling the mind with fps,I
and anxiety, until the coat is finished an,
tried on, at which crisis the blood is o0en
caused to rush into the face at beholdinr 4
bad fitting coat.
The rules, with one or two executions L
which have been in use ever since the first
invention of the kind, were wholly predi.f
Gated upon principles giving the same pro. i
portion for every man, which principles I
would long since have been superceded bv |
seli-varying rules, had tailors but thought
that the variation III the proportions ormen's
bodies are almost as many as in the eature
of the face.
Two or three rules styled Selfuarying,
have made their appearance within about ass
many years, each inventor claiming the ho,
or of having perfected the art, upon which J.
G. Wilson, OF New York, entitled his sys.
tenn perfect; but instead of being perfect
it contains many erroneous principles, which.
the subscribers forbear to point out untl'
that gentleman assails this assertion. All.
such systems have heretofore been defec,Al
in two ways: First, they are only IN partI
self-varying. Secondly, those parts which
are intended to be sell-varyng arc defective,
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 the
subscribers.
Unlike any other Of the kind, this sys
tenn now offered to the trade is conducted
without any breast measure, and effects ev-
cry point and every part of the coat by self
varying principles, in way calculated 10
convict the senses of any reasonable man,
that should it ever fail to produce good fit
upon any shape whatever, the charge must
be laid to careless and incorrect measure
ment. it may seem mysterious that this
rule is said to be self-varyiug, and yet a
square ule-a square rule and yet conduct
ed withouta breast measure but the whole
mystery viii be unfolded at once by exam
ination. Unwilling TO have it said that the
subscribers are attempting to palm this sys.
TEN upon the trade with misrepresentation,
they avow their willingness to submitit
to the hands of an impartial committee Er
an examination of its principles, in compar.
ison with any other ever invented in the
United States, at Philadelphia or New York,
which committee shall make the decision
known through the press. The subscri-
bers set all systems which are governed
wholly by the breast measure aside as in
lerior and not worthy to compare with ;
consequently they will compare with none
but such as are governed in part by self
varying principles. For if the principles
here offered to the trade aIe not worthy Of
patronage il is right that it should be made
known, and they sink into oblivion. On the
contrary, if they are found as above repres'
ented, or if thereby the subscribers have put
an end to all further Improvements in the
art of cutting coats they deserve some pat
ronage and compensation for their exertions'
Terms-if forwarded to order 81, if per-
sonally taught Sl2
CHARLES KAHLER,
WILLIAM KAHLER