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 . at one long edge at the dis-tance at which you want the skirt to clearthe floor. Put your skirt on and stand ona table. (111. 85.) Have some one markthe correct length vnth the marker and pins.(111. ) Take the sku-t oil, turn it up atthe pin-line and baste it. Try the skirt on again, to be sure thatthe lower
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 . at one long edge at the dis-tance at which you want the skirt to clearthe floor. Put your skirt on and stand ona table. (111. 85.) Have some one markthe correct length vnth the marker and pins.(111. ) Take the sku-t oil, turn it up atthe pin-line and baste it. Try the skirt on again, to be sure thatthe lower edge is perfectly even before hemming or facing it. There are two ways of hanging a skirt if you ha-\e no one to help you. Take a straight,flat stick or a yard-stick long enough to reach from the floor to a line on the skirt whichyou can reach easily \\dthout bending. Just below the fullest part of the hips is the bestpoint. Stand the stick upright on the floor, with one end touching your figure, and placea pin where the top of the stick touches the skirt. Move the stick around the figure afew inches at a time, marking it at each point. Take off the skirt and measure from thepins down to the con-ect length. Mark the correct length with pins. Turn it up, basteit and try it Ill 85. To Get an Lven Line at theBottom of a 5kirt LADILS AND SKIRTS 49
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