professional bad example

i got a pattern drafting book from 1947 in the mail today. a german one, too. i think it's actually the only german pattern drafting book i own, though i do have a trilingual german-english-french one. anyway, i like it. nice visuals on why patterns have to be shaped the way they are, something i'm always looking for. old measurement tables which surprise me with how large their sizes are - the normal sizes start at 92 cm bust for 38 N and go up to 125 cm for 52 N, women's sizes start at 99 cm for 38 F and go to 135 cm for 52 F. and this in germany only a few years after WWII! they also have larger bicep measurements than modern sizes - a modern size 42 assumes 30,4 cm, which is far too small for me, but a 40 N 36 cm, which just about matches my actual bicep measurement. my father suggested i might have to thank the trümmerfrauen for this. and they include a measurement called front bust width, which is notably larger than half the full bust and thereby makes me happy.

i also just saw that there's instructions for drafting a fez in there. clearly that makes it cool. ;)