The dress you wear and how to make it . ot hangeven unless you do. Another way to turn up a skirt even is touse a skirt guage and chalk or turn and pinall around while the skirt is on, moving skirtguage around skirt and pinning about threeinches apart. After the skirt is pinned upeven baste on lower edge, find the narrowestplace in material for hem, then measure atthis point, allowing enough to turn raw edgewell under. With tape line measure frombottom of skirt, this distance all around theskirt, cut off all extra material above markexcept enough to turn raw edge under. Turn on chalk line, use
The dress you wear and how to make it . ot hangeven unless you do. Another way to turn up a skirt even is touse a skirt guage and chalk or turn and pinall around while the skirt is on, moving skirtguage around skirt and pinning about threeinches apart. After the skirt is pinned upeven baste on lower edge, find the narrowestplace in material for hem, then measure atthis point, allowing enough to turn raw edgewell under. With tape line measure frombottom of skirt, this distance all around theskirt, cut off all extra material above markexcept enough to turn raw edge under. Turn on chalk line, use running-stitch, takesmall stitches, and run gathering thread allaround at edge where the skirt is turned onchalk line. Draw thread up where it is neces-sary to make it fit the skirt, pin to place andbaste. io6 The Dress You Wear Press with damp press cloth and stitching press again on right side (seesubject of pressing). Basting in a Sleeve Run gathering thread all abound top ofsleeve, hold sleeve toward you, place sleeve. BASTING IN A SLEEVE The Dress You Wear 107 so that center of lowest point of sleeve ispinned to lowest point of armhole under arm;and center of highest point of sleeve to centerof highest point of armhole. Adjust gathers so that sleeve will be easedin all around but a little stronger at top thanremainder of sleeve. If sleeve is large it should be eased inunder arm and about half-way up the arm-hole, then the balance gathered in across thetop and half-way down the sides. It is veryimportant that the sleeve be held toward youwhile the work is being done. Try sleeve on before stitching as it is some-times necessary to make a change as all armsand shoulders are not just alike. In real round shoulders the top of the sleevehas to set farther forward than in straightshoulders. When fitting the sleeve see that theelbow comes in the right place, also thatthe center of top of sleeve at highest pointon top. 108 The Dress You Wear Tailors Seams The finish o
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