DIA. V.
This diagram is also given for illustration only. It represents the centers of the front and back on straight lines, the neck-hole on the back and front, even, and the reduction of the shoulders at 45 deg., as it actually is to be reduced. The side of the neck represents Dia. [IV] as cut out 4¾, and would require a standing collar of ¾ to be sewed on. In this position a neck-band could not be cut on the forepart as shown in Dia. [IV], because the shoulder seam would be too far in front. Though it is useless for actual cutting, it is worth its place in this work for illustration. It fully demonstrates that the so-called front shoulder point is a myth.
Dia. 5.
DIA. VI.
Dia. [VI] is also for illustration, and shows the vest on the angle of 135 deg., and again on an angle of ½ of 135 deg., or on 67½ deg. There the angle of 135 deg. is cut in two, or folded together, so that the center of the front and center of the back are one line, and wherever the front of the waist is reduced the back is enlarged.
The cut of the side of the neck is the same as shown in Dia. [V], though one is shown as 3 2-4 and the other as 4⅜, but the calculations are made from different points. Dia. [IV] is the parent pattern of Dia. [V] and [VI].
Dia. 6.