The new dressmaker; with complete and fully illustrated instructions on every point connected with sewing, dressmaking and tailoring, from the actual stitches to the cutting, making, altering, mending, and cleaning of clothes for ladies, misses, girls, children, infants, men and boys . sh. Slash across the center-back and side-back portions nearly to the arm-hole edge. Seliarate the slashed |)iec(>sas muchas the figure requires, generally /g to l^ cutting out the side back preserve aneven curve along the back edge. The under-arm gor(! seldom needs any change. ALTERING A PATTERN FOR
The new dressmaker; with complete and fully illustrated instructions on every point connected with sewing, dressmaking and tailoring, from the actual stitches to the cutting, making, altering, mending, and cleaning of clothes for ladies, misses, girls, children, infants, men and boys . sh. Slash across the center-back and side-back portions nearly to the arm-hole edge. Seliarate the slashed |)iec(>sas muchas the figure requires, generally /g to l^ cutting out the side back preserve aneven curve along the back edge. The under-arm gor(! seldom needs any change. ALTERING A PATTERN FOR AN FIGURF,. On an over-orect figure thelining will wrinkle across the shoulders. () Make up the hning in ch(-a|) nuislin and put it on (correctly. Have some one slash it across the center-back portion and down toside back to within ^ ti of an inch of the underarm scam. (111. ,52.) The odg(!S of the slashshould be lapped and i)inned to remove the fulness in the lining. Dont lap the edges toomuch or the shoulders will pull back. Baste the slash, try the lining on and then rip it apart. Where it lias been lappedthe seam edges will be uneven. Trim them off. Alter your paper pattern, using thetrial lining as a guide, slashing it and lapping and basting the UK 51. If a Woman 5landsloo trecl CHAPTLR 5 ALTERING SKIRT. YOKE AND DRAWERS PATTERNS FORFIGURES THAT VARY FROM THE AVERAGE Altering Gored Skirts for Figures with Round or Prominent Abdomen or Prominent Hips-Altering Circular Skirt Patterns for Figures with Round or Prominent Abdomens orProminent Hips—Altering ^oke Patterns for Figures that are Large or Smallin the Vvaist—Altering Drawers Patterns for Figures with Prominent Abdomens ALTERING A GORED SKIRT PATTERN FOR A PROMINENT ABDOMEN. On fig-, ures of this type a skirt p;ittern unless it is altered will stand out at the front andat the sides. These women as a rule have flat backs. A .?^mall pad worn underthe corset at the back will fill in the ho
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