. The Koester school book of drapes; a complete text book and course of instruction in merchandise draping. Drape 1 Drape 2 is a hole in the go,ods or a strain of the fabric that will not resume its original a defect may render unsalable an entire dress pattern running into a lot of the trimmer may gloss over the fault when he returns the goods to stock andit may escape detection for the time being, but later it is more than likely to be discoveredby the customer or by the critical dressmaker who inspects the goods with the utmost care todiscover faults for which she
. The Koester school book of drapes; a complete text book and course of instruction in merchandise draping. Drape 1 Drape 2 is a hole in the go,ods or a strain of the fabric that will not resume its original a defect may render unsalable an entire dress pattern running into a lot of the trimmer may gloss over the fault when he returns the goods to stock andit may escape detection for the time being, but later it is more than likely to be discoveredby the customer or by the critical dressmaker who inspects the goods with the utmost care todiscover faults for which she may later be held responsible. In the making of drapes with expensive goods, the decorator should first study his goodsand not attempt any design that requires a great deal of pinning or folding. He shouldbe able to form a mental picture of the various steps in the process of draping and to seewhere each pin is to be placed. If, after the drape is pretty well along, some difficulty 192 Dhapino on Forms. Drape arises and the expected ef-fect cannot be obtained intile way it had been planned,do not pull and stretch thematerial to reduce the vvai^tor otherwise make the jol)a smooth one. In such acase, it will generally befound that the drape hasbeen started in the wrongway, or, for some reasonor another, it is impossibleto make a good job. It isat this point that the care-less trimmer makes hisgreatest mistake. He hasalready put so much workon the drape that he is un-willing to undo what hasl^een done and start over, sohe patches it up as well ashe can and goes ahead. Theresult is either a clumsydrape or damaged goods. While some dress ma-terials are to a certain ex-tent elastic, none of themare intended to are extremely fewmaterials that after beingstretched unduly for somelength of time, will regaintheir first do not place astrain upon your material may be pulledsnugly over the hip orelsewhere to make a goodfit, but there should be n
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