Migs Traphagen begins her instruction by showing her students how to draw a form on which to design a dress. This is not the human form but a dummy, and 1s done with 15 simple lines for the front view and an equal number for the back. For the drawing of the garment on the dummy she formulates rules of great, clearness and precision. The depiction of shoes and other "accessories sh? makes amazingly easy by a few generalizations, Even in the more difficult matter of sketching not dummies but human figures, when this must be done with a model. she is ready with basic rules. Also the matter of portraying heads and faces assumes an wumnexpected simplicity.
Design, that is the selection and arrangement of the elements of a sketch and their proper placement on paper, she expounds with a full sense of their importance pointing to the value of the Greek law of dividing an area so that the relation of its parts will impress us agreeably, Pupils are drilled in the special technique of pen-and-ink drawing for line cuts, washes for half-tone yveproduction, and colour work within its special requirements for print ing.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.