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A COMPLETE COURSE IN DRESSMAKING


side edge. In tieing these pass through the eyelets in the point and hold the diaper securely in place.


How to make a Pattern of an Infant's Dress: After looking at the diagrams in Figs. 11 and 12, draw a box ABCD for the front. The lines must be at exact right angles to each other. Make the cross lines from A to B and from C to D measure thirty-one inches. Make the cross lines from A to D and from B to C measure fourteen and a half inches.

Next draw a box for the neck, always preserving the trueness of the right angles. Measure from point A on the AD line one and three-quarter inches and mark point E. Measure two inches from point A on the AB line and mark point G. Measure one and three-quarter inches on a line at right angles to line AB, commencing with point G and mark point F. Draw the connecting line from point E to point F and at right angles to AE line. When you have made the box correctly it is easy to draw in the curve as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 11.

Draw the box for the armhole, measuring three inches from point E on the AD line and mark point H. Measure four inches on a line at right angles to AD line, starting at

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