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A COMPLETE COURSE IN DRESSMAKING


Fig. 21. Diagram for a waistline apron pattern
yardstick or tailor’s square. This line should measure twenty-seven inches. Draw the lines AD and BC at right angles to the AB line. Each of these lines should measure eighteen inches. Mark at point E one inch below point A and reslope the waistline as indicated by the dotted lines.

To slope the waistline, draw a line at right angles from point E, as dotted line marked EF in Fig. 22. Three inches out on this line
Fig. 22. Diagram for sloping the top of the apron

mark F. From the point of F blend a curve to the upper edge. This will give an even run to the waistline which will make

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