. The Koester school book of drapes; a complete text book and course of instruction in merchandise draping. style. Both of them, it will be noted, suggest the Directoire fashion, one beingin broadcloth and velvet to resemble a street suit, the other in silk to indicate an eveninggown. The most striking characteristics of street suits made in the Directoire style are theimmense revers and long coats. In this example both of these features are suggestedstrongly. To make this drape, take a single dress length of broadcloth in some of the newlight shades. Begin as shown in Fig. 2 by pinning the cu
. The Koester school book of drapes; a complete text book and course of instruction in merchandise draping. style. Both of them, it will be noted, suggest the Directoire fashion, one beingin broadcloth and velvet to resemble a street suit, the other in silk to indicate an eveninggown. The most striking characteristics of street suits made in the Directoire style are theimmense revers and long coats. In this example both of these features are suggestedstrongly. To make this drape, take a single dress length of broadcloth in some of the newlight shades. Begin as shown in Fig. 2 by pinning the cut end horizontally across the sideof the form about the waist and allowing the surplus width to fall behind the form. Thegoods now falls to the floor at the side. It is smoothed out carefully and the short train isformed by folding the goods under and bringing it around l)ack of the figure to the oppositeside. The front of the form is covered by bringing the other cut end of the material upover the front of the bust and pinning to the back of the form, carrying the right hand ^it-ectoice- Evcn0<^ Cc. Draping on Forms edge around under where the arm would be and pinning it at the back. The material is thendrawn in at the waist and kept in place by pins placed in the back of the form. Now turnunder the right hand edge that descends to the floor and form it into a graceful curveas shown in the large drawing. Straighten out the front edge on the floor and place the surplus goods back of theform. The next step is to tie a wide sash around the bust a few inches below the top. Thissash is a full width of soft liberty silk or crepe de chine. At the ends of the sash are largetassels in the same color as the broadcloth. The knot at the bust is tied as flat as now come to the coat, which is made of velvet in a much darker shade of the samecolor as the broadcloth. Fold over one length of the velvet several times and place itin the position shown in Fig. 3. Pin it at points A
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