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 . 189 Tying Threads. Supporting Inlaid Plaits CHAPTER 21 PLACKETS For Unlined Dresses—For Cloth Skirts- Placket at Center oi Inverted Plait—At Underfold of Plait—At Center of a Habit Back—Under a Strapped Seam—For a Skirt Set in Same Belt with Foundation Skirt—Underwear Plackets—Featlier- Stitched Hem on Plackets


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 . 189 Tying Threads. Supporting Inlaid Plaits CHAPTER 21 PLACKETS For Unlined Dresses—For Cloth Skirts- Placket at Center oi Inverted Plait—At Underfold of Plait—At Center of a Habit Back—Under a Strapped Seam—For a Skirt Set in Same Belt with Foundation Skirt—Underwear Plackets—Featlier- Stitched Hem on Plackets PLACKETS SUCH AS ARE MADE FOR UNLINED DRESSES are shown in Illustra-tions 191 and 192. This plaeket is used on skirts of unlined dresses when the outsidesewing would be an objection; also on dresses that have to visit the laundry. Usea strip twice the length of the opening and three and three-quarter inches wide. Lay the lap along the edge of the opening with the right side of the lap and skirt to-gether and baste them in a naiTOW seam. (111. 191.) Run it almost to a point at thelower end of the opening. Turn the free edge under and hem it close to thesewing. (lU. 191.) When this strip or lap is applied al)0\e the liack seam of askirt, it is set backan eighth of an inchfrom the stit


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