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 . ADAPTING PATTERNS TO LONG OR SHORTWAISTED FIGURES—Before cutting your mate-rial have your figure measured from the coUarseam at the back of the neck to the normalwaistUne, and close up under the arms to thewaistUne. Make a memorandum of these mea-surements as they are taken. Now take your lining pattern and take
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 . ADAPTING PATTERNS TO LONG OR SHORTWAISTED FIGURES—Before cutting your mate-rial have your figure measured from the coUarseam at the back of the neck to the normalwaistUne, and close up under the arms to thewaistUne. Make a memorandum of these mea-surements as they are taken. Now take your lining pattern and take thecorresponding measurements of the that the back pattern has a J^g of aninch seam allowance at the neck and that thereis a % of an inch seam allowance at the arm-hole edge under the arm. Compare your measurements with the measure-ments of the pattern. In most cases it is suf-ficient to alter the waist length at the lower figures, however, are long-waisted from un-der the arm to the waistUne and short from underthe arm to the neck. If this is your case you willdiscover it in comparing your measurements withthe measurements of the pattern. If the lowerpart is too long lay a plait across each piece about2J^ inches above the waistUne. (lU. 27.) The19. III. 27. To Shorten the Waist LJning 20 THL NEW DRL55MAKER
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