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 . Detail of TyinS Knot THE SKIRT. III. 96. The Neckerchief 1 ied If front openings in the skirt are de-sired, both edges of the front gore are undorfaeed to thedepth of a placket opening, with a straight strip of ma-terial about one and one-half inches wide. Tlie frontedge of each side gore should have an underlap


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 . Detail of TyinS Knot THE SKIRT. III. 96. The Neckerchief 1 ied If front openings in the skirt are de-sired, both edges of the front gore are undorfaeed to thedepth of a placket opening, with a straight strip of ma-terial about one and one-half inches wide. Tlie frontedge of each side gore should have an underlap to thesame depth, about one inch and a half wide when ( the gores together with stitched felled seams, continuing the stitching along theopening. If the skirt is to be i)laited, the plaits will give suflicient material for the under-lap. (Chapter 21, page 102.) For a back lacing, the back plait is stitched separately from the skirt and the foldedges worked with six or eight eyekts (Chapter 24,page 115) and laced with black silk lacing or silktape. (111. 99.) The upper edge of the front gore is finished with.


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