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 . hould be twice the length of the placketopening and three and three-quarter incheswide. Fold the ends together and creasethrough center; open and fold the sidestogether and crease. Cut out one sectionto within a small seam of the crease asshown in Illustration 200. Baste the long straight edge of the lap toboth


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 . hould be twice the length of the placketopening and three and three-quarter incheswide. Fold the ends together and creasethrough center; open and fold the sidestogether and crease. Cut out one sectionto within a small seam of the crease asshown in Illustration 200. Baste the long straight edge of the lap toboth edges of the opening, making a naiTowseam. Run it almost to a point at thelower edge of the opening. () Makea narrow turning on the three edges of boththe narrow and the wide part of the the wide part back (111. 202), bastethe edge over the hne of the sewing, andliem. This forms the underlap. Turn thenarrow part back on the hne of sewing,baste the free edge to the garment to forman underfacing, and hem. The end of theunderlap is turned under, basted andstitched across. The finished closing isshown in Illustration 203. This placket hasan outside row of stitching. It is usuallyemployed for drawers, petticoats, etc. III. 200. Underlap and FacingStrip for Placket. / 111. 204. Feather-slilched Hemat Placket A HLM ON A PLACKET used on flannel petticoats is shownin Illustration 204. CHAPTER 22 POCKLT5 Patch Pockets—Slash Pocket—Pocket with a Straight Opening—Pocket with anIn-and-Out Lap—Pocket with a Welt — Bound Pocket Opening y y / ^ ^ / ?^\ / \ \ \ \ \


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