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 . III. 43. Sloping ShouldersMake Ihe Lining Wrinklefrom Shoulder to Armhole III. 44. The Lining Must be Lifted on the Shoulder III. 45. It the Bust is TooFull il Pulls Up the Lining. 46. The Remedy is toGive the Lining More SizeAcross the Bus* make it bind. Slash the arm-hole a little until it feels justright. Do


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 . III. 43. Sloping ShouldersMake Ihe Lining Wrinklefrom Shoulder to Armhole III. 44. The Lining Must be Lifted on the Shoulder III. 45. It the Bust is TooFull il Pulls Up the Lining. 46. The Remedy is toGive the Lining More SizeAcross the Bus* make it bind. Slash the arm-hole a little until it feels justright. Do not slash it toomuch or your armhole willbe too large. (111. 44.) Take off your lining, bastethe shoulder seams and cutout the armhole on a line withslashes. Try the lining onagain to be sure that it iscomfortable and then stitchthe shoulder seams. Diagonal %vrinkles in theback of the lining may behandled in the same same alteration that ismade in the lining should bemade in the outside waist. ADAPTING PATTERNS TOA FIGURE WITH AN UN-USUALLY LARGE is the case, not neces-sarily of a large figure, but of afigure in which the bust is 26 1 111, N I W I) K I S i M A K i; K larRO in proportion to the l>iist luiiisurc. A woman niiH:ht nicasniv Mt inclios at (hoInist and yot have a narrow hack and a very Ildl l)iist. If tlic l>usl is only a little full, thoalteration can lit niadc on the iinilcrarin sonn\ wlicn you try on llii lining and wa


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