How to make over old dresses by Prescott Augusta

Author:Prescott, Augusta. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Dressmaking
Publisher: New York, The Home book company
Published: 1892-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

carefully apart, and cut a paper pattern from it, observing each little turn. Cut the pattern about a quarter of an inch larger than the dress should be, when completed, so that when the goods are cut after the pattern, there is an allowance made for a quarter of an inch seam. If a larger seam is desired it may be left, but the dressmaker should always understand perfectly how large a seam has been provided for.

There is no way of getting a good pattern that is quite equal to this.

2Q Chapter VIII.

HOW TO MAKE YOUR DRESS.

Suppose you have measured up your material, and you find you have enough goods to make a plain, pretty gown. Now the next question is to decide upon the style.

The present fashion—and it is a style that bids fair to continue for a couple of seasons, at least—is in favor of the plain skirt and the somewhat complicated bodice.

The fashionable skirt is of walking length in front, and with a very short train at the back. For a person who wears a skirt forty inches long, the back of the dress should be made forty-five inches.

With proper stiffening in the skirt this does not permit the dress to drag, but merely sets it out, giving the right kind of fulness and bustle effect.

Take the best four breadths of the material and sew them together for a back. In sloping the bottom of the skirt, make the back round, or oval, and see that it just touches the floor at the sides. No steels are used in the back of the skirt, but in place of them tie strings are placed

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