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 . (111. 40.) Take the lininj; otTand baste the edi;es of the slash to the (liece underneath. Try the lining on asrain to bosin-e that it fits perfoetly. Take it off and rip it aiiart, cutlinir throusli the materialunderneath on a line with tho soams. These lininK pieces are not to bo us(h1 as a pattern, for muslin
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 . (111. 40.) Take the lininj; otTand baste the edi;es of the slash to the (liece underneath. Try the lining on asrain to bosin-e that it fits perfoetly. Take it off and rip it aiiart, cutlinir throusli the materialunderneath on a line with tho soams. These lininK pieces are not to bo us(h1 as a pattern, for muslin stretihes and is notaccurate. Take each piece of this alterid lininsr and tho correspoudii\!.; piece of llio pat-torn and niako tho sanio alteration on the pattern, usin^ the lininj, pieces as a guide. Slash the pattern fronts like tho muslinand separati> the pieces of tho pattern^^^•^ ^ same way, and to tho same ox- ^l)s^U^ tent, and paste a iiioco of tissue-paper under tln> slash. Keep tlio correctedtissue-papin and use it for any dressthat calls for a French lining. This alteration as it is illustfatod hereis for a lisrino unusually full at thobust. It will not, ot eourso, be neces-sary to niaUo such an extensive altiM-a-tion for fisruros of a more normal ALTCRING lOR AriGURL WITH AN UNUSUALLYSMALL BUST. For tho woman withan umisually small bust it is wiser tomake up tho lininsi tirst in unbleachednuislii\ lieforo cutting into tho regularlining. Where tho bust is just a littleunder the average the alteration canbe made at the underarnt seam. Thoalteration ilhistraled here is for anextreme ease. Cut a lining of unlileaihed it together, turning under thehems and putting it on with the edgesof the hems just meotii\g. Pin it care-fully. It will fall in wrinkles below thebust. (111. 47.) Here again the lining should l>i> slashed straight across to th<- side-frontsoaiu ai\d from tho sido-front seam upward to within -v, of an in
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