Identifier: koesterschoolboo00cowarich (find matches)
Title: The Koester school book of drapes; a complete text book and course of instruction in merchandise draping
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Cowan, George John, 1877- Bates, William Henry, 1879-
Subjects: Show windows Display of merchandise Draperies
Publisher: Chicago, The Dry Goods Reporter
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ficial flowers. Fig. G is a more elaborate grouping, showing the tall drape serving more as a back-ground to the grouping of accessories, such as parasols, hat, gloves and shoes. A closestudy of this grouping will show you exactly how it is done. Fig. 7 is that of a very simple drape over an upright millinery stand. The hat isplaced on top and two ribbons draped down at the sides fastened to parasols as shown. Fig. 8 indicates the use of a screen as a draping stand over which is draped severaldifferent pieces of goods and such accessories as hat, parasol, ribbons, flowers and purseare used. Fig. 9 shows three pieces of goods draped over a tall stand and then brought outaway from the stand and draped through floral wreaths that were placed on top ofshorter stands. Fig. 10 represents a simple drape on two plain uprights that serve as a backgroundto several pieces of neckwear shown on a glass shelf supported by two stands overwhich is draped a continuation of the same piece of goods. 131
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DRAPES FOR TAILORS THE tailors windows today arc just about the same as they were twenty yearsago. Even in the high class shops of New York and Chicago there has been noperceptible change. Away back in the dim, forgotten past, some tailor made a lotof cardboard cylinders with wooden ends. These he set up in rows like soldiers andcovered them with his suit patterns. This became the accepted style for showing tailoringgoods—and so it is today, the same old thing—a geometric arrangement that has no moreartistic merit than a row of tenpins. The tailors windows are open to almost as varied a treatment as any other line ofgoods, and the ideas we give in this book demonstrate this and will suggest many otherways of showing suitings. As an illustration of this, look on the page opposite, at drawings 1, 2, 3 and 4. Fig. 4shows the completed drape, a tall hat-stand with a lower stand, having fastened on a slantat the top a winding board. Figs. 1, 2 and 3 show small sketches of the fixtures

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