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 . 12 THL NLW DRL55MAKLR needed. If the skirt is plain at the topand gored, each seam should be taken inso as to make the alteration as small aspossible in each place, sloping it gradu-ally to nothing at the hipline. Or thewaist size can be increased as illustratedand explained in Chapter 5 AlteringSkirt Patterns.
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 . 12 THL NLW DRL55MAKLR needed. If the skirt is plain at the topand gored, each seam should be taken inso as to make the alteration as small aspossible in each place, sloping it gradu-ally to nothing at the hipline. Or thewaist size can be increased as illustratedand explained in Chapter 5 AlteringSkirt Patterns. Page 28. In a circular skirt with one or more darts,the waist size can be made smaller or largerby taking in or letting out the darts. In a circular skirt without darts, if onlya small reduction is required, it may oftenbe eased into the belt. If the waist needsto be made very much smaller it may benecessary to make a small dart at each hip. If the waistline needs to be made largerit can be done by raising the skirt a trifle ^^\.
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Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1920, booksubjectsewing, bookyear1921
