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 . ouse so that theshoulder seams come exactly together and the yoke lies smoothly on the blouse. Pin theyoke to hold it in place, then baste and stitch it to the blouse. Plaits are made in the regulation sleeve by creasing from the perforations at the bottomto the corresponding perforations at cuff depth. These cr
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 . ouse so that theshoulder seams come exactly together and the yoke lies smoothly on the blouse. Pin theyoke to hold it in place, then baste and stitch it to the blouse. Plaits are made in the regulation sleeve by creasing from the perforations at the bottomto the corresponding perforations at cuff depth. These creases are brought over to theposition marked by perforations and the plaits are stitched along the fold edge before theseam is closed. Illustration 90 shows how the blouse may be laid out on the table for conve-nience in Joining the sleeve. Baste the sleeve to the yoke with the usual three-eightlis-of-an-inch seam and then stitch it. Turn under the armhole of the blouse three-eighths ofan inch, baste it over the seam, and fell it down. Make a second stitching on the body ofthe blouse one-quarter of an inch from the seam. The underarm and sleeve seams havebeen left open until now, making the work easier to handle and also making it possible 53 54 THL NLW DRESSMAKER ,.^.«-iS*^SS. III. 90. Setting in the Sleeve to sew the rating badge on the sleeve properly. Close the underarm seams and thesleeve seams as notched, using flat felled seams. (Chapter 17, page S?.) A hem is turned at the bottom of the blouse and if the pattern instruetions direct, an elastic is inserted to hold tlieblouse in place. THE. COLLAR is joined to theneck witli the seam toward the inside.(111. 91.) The collar is markedwith notclies showing where itjoins the blouse, and in bastingit on, the edge should l>e stretdiedbetween the notches to tit the cor-responding edge of the bK>use, thuscausing tlie collar to roll closelyabout tlie neck. The outer edges areturned under thret>H>iglitlis of anincli and
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