HOW TO SEW
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A SMART TRIMMING FOR A COTTON FROCK
NOW is tlie time to make cotton, frocks, and of course you are looking for ideas that will give them an individual touch. Here is a front facing for a shirt waist dress that has both style and colour interest. Yon will need one-eighth of a yard of each of tlie two trimming colours. Blue and green on a white dress is smart, or yellow and brown on tan. or green and tan on blue, or brown and yellow on green. Add a strip of paper to your plain waist pattern letting it extend 1 3-8 inches beyond tlie centre front as shown at the upper left. Use tins pattern to cut both sides of the waist. Place a 3J-inch wide facing piece right down on the right side of Uje overlap edge, as at. A, basting it. in place. Mark the scallops on this facing making them 2 inches wide. 2J inches long and 24 inches apart. Now, stitch along the marking. Trim a seam’s widtii from the stitching, slashing diagonally at the corners, as shown. Turn the facing to the wrong side. Baste .along Hie turned edge, as at B, and press.
Cut the straight trimming strips li inches wide. Turn one edge of the light strip and stitch it over the turned edge of the underlap side of the waist as at C. Turn both edges of Hie darker strip and stitch as nt D. Make the belt in the same manner on a foundation of the dress material.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 22, 21 October 1937, Page 5
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265HOW TO SEW Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 22, 21 October 1937, Page 5
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