Learn at Home to Make Your Own Dresses

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17395, 4 March 1922, Page 2

Learn at Home to Make Your Own Dresses

NEW WONDERFUL SYSTEM

By DORA DEVINE

A GRAND FREE OFFER

When Florence Brown first arrived in our town she .was about twenty-two, and I'll never forget how she looked the first time I saw her. That dress I —it may have been stylish five years before; but it was now faded, and her hat was very much the worse for wear,

Months passed, and she lived quietly with her aunt, and kept very inuch to herself. Then, early in the following spring, Florenco gave us a genuine surprise. The fancy fair was in full swing on Saturday .-.afternoon, and we were all as busy, as bees, when in walked a radiant creature, in the neatest,' prettiest/ most ' becoming dress you ever saw—and who should it be but Florence! She did create a stir, for the next day (Sunday) Florence

Appeared in another charming dfess. ' in '' fact, .after that, whatever the occasion, her. • - dresses, blouses, slurta and hats .were 1 • ' always becoming.and stylish to the last degree. She became d popular figure im < the social life'of the town, and'was invited ] ; • everywhere. . < And then, another wonderful thing hap- ( .pened. Mrs. Bob Alberts told me first, t ,•<•••• but- everybody soon heard that our , . Florence had-* become engaged to Tom " Harknfess, a fine young chap, already well a ~ on the way to being a successful man. ® s ;i -They were married soon afterwards,>and wherf Florence returned from her honey- F moon'sfce invited me out to her beautiful * r home for the day. And I did enjoy that - I'VVisit^, After tea\he told me her story ® t<i town,", sfte feS*t&an r '' Iliad never known what it was to * wts' brought up « |4*aWy;;in the bush, and when I was left an D to live wit£ Aunt May. j? f " soon reaLsed how different I was - girls; arid saw. that I- was- not J I felt "jt, too. At first I I worried .* terribly about it, for I had not J S

How Florence Brown, a Little Stranger, became the Best Dressed Girl in our Town

the money to buy lots of clothes, and only earned a little at the store, when one day I chanced to read of a wonderful system of teaching dress-making by post, by means of which any girl or.woman, whereever she might live, could learn right in her home, in spare time, to make all her own clothes and hats.

" Here was my chance, and I quickly grasped it by writing for full information, and soon took up the study of dressmaking. I was surprised to learn that nearly 17,000 arid women are beirig taught in this simple and fascinating way. They include wives and mothers, business women, girls at home or at work, .and city women, country women—women 'everywhere.

"Oh I It is so grand and easy. Clothes cost less , than half .as much when you make them yourselfrand by learning the Associated System at home you can't help but learn rapidly. . " What was most important to me, I learned not only how to .make every kind of garment, but also what colours and materials suited ' mo best, and how to develop thosei distinctive little touches that makes-'clothes' so becoming to the wearer. The Associated' System opened up a whole new world to me, and it was not lortg before I had more and prettier clothes than I had ever had before.

"So that's my story. The rest you know—whit a ■ wonderful difference • it made in my life friends and happiness followed close upon the change in my appearance. But I owe aU. to the Associated System, and: what . I did—in saving tens of pounds on my\ clothes, haying prettier, more stylish, better made dresses and hats than I could have had anv other way, arid attracting frtendii aiid. happiness with them—any woman or girl pan do'!" • ' ' . Florence was right I . Over 22,000 women and girls in city, town andcountry have proved that YOU can easily and quickly learn at home to make all your own and your children's clothes and hats, or. prepare for success as a dressmaker or milliner. ,

r ' And if you will do as Florence Brown and thousands of others have done, and send to the Associated School of DressMaking, Sydney, they will.send by return post, absolutely without charge, all _ particulars of the marvellous Associated System, telling you how you can have more and prettier clothes', and save money. I suggest that 1 you write promptly, being sure to mention the " Christthurch. Daily Press," and state whether you axe Mrs. or MisS, and whether dressmaking or ; millinery interests you most. Do this immediately, as otherwise you may lose the chance of a, lifetime. SEND NO MONEY —simply send your name and address NOW to the ASSOCIATED SCHOOL OF DRESS MAKING; ,i?B4-7 Castlereagh Street, Cr.. Liverpool Street, SYDNEY.