Suiter Swantz IP takes a look back at past inventions and inventors with our Patent Of The Day.
On this day in 1909, Emma Austen Howard was granted U.S. Patent No. 917,439 for a METHOD OF OBTAINING THE CORRECT LENGTHS OF SKIRTS.
The invention relates to dressmaking, and its object is to provide a new and improved method for marking a skirt, to enable a woman without the assistance of any person, to obtain the correct length of a skirt intended for her own use, in a very simple manner, and to also permit of marking the skirt for folds, tucks and trimmings.
The method consists in first producing a row of marks on the skirt at about the hip line and at a uniform distance from the floor while the garment is supported on the wearer, and after the skirt is removed producing a second row of marks near the bottom of the skirt a uniform distance from the first row of marks.
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