The Cutter's Practical Guide, Part 10
Waistcoats
1st Edition
Published on 28. August 2025
Book
Hardback
80 pages
978-3-8192-8028-3 (ISBN)
Description
"Time tries all things, and no better test can be desired than the fact that after years of widespread recognition as a standard work on Cutting and Practical Tailoring, this book has so grown in favour that edition after edition is demanded.
This, the tenth part, deals with all kinds of Waistcoats and similar garments, and though it comes late in the series, it is not by any means the least important class of garments the tailor is called upon to produce. No pains have been spared either by author, artist, or printer to make this part a worthy companion of the preceding ones.
In conclusion, we can justly make a further quotation from the Preface of Part One, which will be found to apply with equal force both to the individual part now before us and to the Cutter's Practical Guide Volumes as a whole: "Very rarely, if ever has a work so comprehensive been published in connection with the Art of Cutting, as this great work by Mr. W D. F. Vincent.
This, the tenth part, deals with all kinds of Waistcoats and similar garments, and though it comes late in the series, it is not by any means the least important class of garments the tailor is called upon to produce. No pains have been spared either by author, artist, or printer to make this part a worthy companion of the preceding ones.
In conclusion, we can justly make a further quotation from the Preface of Part One, which will be found to apply with equal force both to the individual part now before us and to the Cutter's Practical Guide Volumes as a whole: "Very rarely, if ever has a work so comprehensive been published in connection with the Art of Cutting, as this great work by Mr. W D. F. Vincent.
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W.D.F. Vincent began his career as an apprentice with Frederick Cooper in Yeovil. After completing his training, he briefly established his own businesses in Oxford and later in Maidenhead as a clothier and tailor, though neither venture was financially successful.
While in Maidenhead, Vincent won an essay competition on tailoring, which was open to all members of the National Federation of Foremen Tailors, titled "The Great National Work on Trouser Cutting, or Defects in Trousers." He submitted his entry under the pseudonym "Oxonian" and won the first prize. This success led him to secure a position with The Tailor and Cutter magazine.
In the early years, Vincent contributed numerous articles on tailoring methods and techniques to the magazine. However, due to the terms of his employment, these articles were published without attribution to him.
By the 1890s, Vincent became a leading tailoring authority. His books, such as The Cutter's Practical Guide to the Cutting & Making of All Kinds of Trousers, became a standard reference work.
By 1917, Vincent referred to himself as a journalist.
The Tailor and Cutter magazine and academy were operated by John Williamson & Co Ltd.
In the 1950s and 1960s, many tailors displayed their Tailor & Cutter Academy Diplomas, signed by W.D.F. Vincent, as the Chairman of Examiners, as a centrepiece in their shop windows. One such example can still be seen on display at the Museum of Welsh Life at St. Fagans in South Wales.
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