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 . s the best finish for the bot-tom of a plaited skirt or dress. (Chap-ter 18, page 93.) Be careful to get the plaits even, with-out any draw, espicially where theedges come bias. As each i)lait is llattencHl. it shouldbo basted a little dislnn<e from the foldedge, as shown in Illustration 187. tokeep it in sha
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 . s the best finish for the bot-tom of a plaited skirt or dress. (Chap-ter 18, page 93.) Be careful to get the plaits even, with-out any draw, espicially where theedges come bias. As each i)lait is llattencHl. it shouldbo basted a little dislnn<e from the foldedge, as shown in Illustration 187. tokeep it in shape. This will be found agreat con\enience later in working onthe garment. Wluni a plaited skirt is made of heavymaterial or is lapped very much at thewaist in fitting, it may be made lessbuiky by cutting away the surplus ma-terial after the plaits are stitched. Theuiul(-r-lapi)ing material is cut away towithin an inch or so of where the stitch-ing finishes. () From that pointit is cut across the top of the plait.(111. 1S8.) The raw edges lef( in this wayare bound with a bias strip of lining orribbon seam binding, that will the top of each plait (111. 188,)except where the seams that join the ( . -• -i .1 - 1 ? - H? 11 „l 1 ill. 180. Cross Tucks. Plails Cut Away on Reverse 5idc of Skirt TUCKS AND PLAITS 99 breadths form the inner fold of a plait. Inthat case the binding will continue down theraw edges of that seam to the bottom of theskirt. In eases where the plaits are not stitched theentire length, the tliread-ends on the underside must be securely tied, as shown in Illus-tration 189. Gored skirts that have a side plait or an in-verted box plait let into the seams some dis-tance up from the bottom, are sometimestroublesome because of a tendency of theseplaits to sliow below the bottom edge of theslurt since there is nothing to which they maybe attached. This trouble may be avoidedin the manner shown in Illustration 190. The seam edge and the edge
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