The Boot and Shoe Manufacturers' Assistant and Guide.: Containing a Brief History of the Trade. History of India-rubber and Gutta-percha, and Their Application to the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes. Full Instructions in the Art, With Diagrams and Scales, Etc., Etc. Vulcanization and Sulphurization, English and American Patents. With an Elaborate Treatise on Tanning.
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The Boot and Shoe Manufacturers' Assistant and Guide.: Containing a Brief History of the Trade. History of India-rubber and Gutta-percha, and Their Application to the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes. Full Instructions in the Art, With Diagrams and Scales, Etc., Etc. Vulcanization and Sulphurization, English and American Patents. With an Elaborate Treatise on Tanning.
Footwear industry; Gutta-percha; Rubber; Tanning
YOUTHS’ SIZES.
_Size._ _Length of foot._ _Heel measure._ _Over the instep._
9 7 inches. 8¾ inches. 6½ inches.
10 7⅓ inches. 9 inches. 6¾ inches.
11 7⅔ inches. 9¼ inches. 7 inches.
12 8 inches. 9½ inches. 7¼ inches.
13 8⅓ inches. 10 inches. 7½ inches.
MISSES LASTS.
_Size._ _Length of foot._ _Heel measure._ _Over the instep._
10 7⅓ inches. 10 inches. 6⅔ inches.
11 7⅔ inches. 10⅓ inches. 6⅚ inches.
12 8 inches. 10⅔ inches. 7 inches.
13 8⅓ inches. 11 inches. 7⅙ inches.
1 8⅔ inches. 11⅓ inches. 7⅓ inches.
2 9 inches. 11⅔ inches. 7½ inches.
C LASTS.
All Children’s Lasts should always be made _Block Lasts_.
_Size._ _Length of foot._ _Heel measure._ _Over the instep._
10 7⅓ inches. 10 inches. 6⅔ inches.
9 7 inches. 9⅔ inches. 6½ inches.
8 6⅔ inches. 9⅓ inches. 6⅓ inches.
7 6⅓ inches. 9 inches. 6⅙ inches.
6 6 inches. 8⅔ inches. 6 inches.
5 5⅔ inches. 8⅓ inches. 5⅚ inches.
4 5⅓ inches. 8 inches. 5⅔ inches.
3 5 inches. 7⅔ inches. 5½ inches.
2 4⅔ inches. 7⅓ inches. 5⅓ inches.
1 4⅓ inches. 7 inches. 5⅙ inches.
0 4 inches. 6⅔ inches. 5 inches.
_Remarks._—The _toes_ of the smallest sizes of children’s lasts should
be made _two_ sizes _wider_ proportionately, than the largest size, i.
e., one-sixth of an inch, as the small foot is _wide_ and _soft_,
requiring more room for its expansion. Thus the practical advantages to
be derived, by cutting the patterns by the _packed diagram_ principle,
(No. 8,) are made clear, as the foot of a child grows faster in _length_
than in _width_.
By the foregoing scale the length of the foot and other measurements in
inches, and all shoes from the smallest child’s to men’s elevens, are
obtained, and by following the same rule, smaller or larger sizes may be
cut.
By having all lasts, diagrams, and patterns, made by the scale, and all
proportions of fulness of lasts regularly graded, making the children’s
much the _fullest_ in _width_, owing to the greater degree of roundness
of the foot, and wider in proportion, on account of rapid growth. In
preparing patterns for children, due allowance must be made for the
increasing _fulness_ of the _ankle_. The same caution is applicable to
misses, but not to so great a degree.
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