HOME DRESSMAKING.

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 17 August 1929, Page 17

HOME DRESSMAKING.

Yiil' MUST DEAW TH WEALS! It vou ure mi ainteur dressmaker, you must often Jiave come up against the snag of having made elaborate calculations in drafting out a (scheme for a frock, only to find, on cutting the stuir, that the result is deplorably inaccurate. The expert way of ensuring absolute straightness and evenness is to make a slight incision, then draw a thread in the material, and follow up the line indicated with the scissors. Again, amateurs often wonder why tucks show a tendency to curve in an ugly fashion at the ends. This is because they deviate slightly from the straight line. If a thread he drawn along the course of each intended tuck, and tackings he inserted along this line each tuck will lie flatly and evenly. The .same applies to hems. It is not an easy business, especially with slippery fabrics like satin and crepe de chine, to get a hem perfectly uniform in width. But if a thread be drawn to indicate where the hem line should come, the job is beautifully simple. Hems thus planned produce an effect of hemstitching with very lilt o trunke if, instead of one thread, half a dozen he drawn, and the lop ol one ol all quickie grouped with stitches. When (ditching trimmings of ribbons or braid, the drawing of a thread similarly ensures that perfection of line which bespeakes the professional rather than the amateur.