DRESSMAKING.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVII, Issue 4460, 21 October 1933, Page 3

DRESSMAKING.

THE NEWEST SKIRTS Many women who found dressmaking very easy when skirts were just a straight piece of material are nervous about tackling the new-shajped, many-seamed skirts, afraid that they will never hang properly. But with a little care in handling they can 'b© managed quite as easily as the other kind. Of course, you need to take pains with the cutting. Look at your pattern and the cutting diagram which comes with all good iplatterns, and make sure that you get straight edges and centre folds exactly on the straight of the material. If you pin on your pattern haphazard you are quite likely to get the slanting edge of a piece on the straight, and then your skirt will never look like anything at all. By comparing pattern piece and diagram you can identify the straight edge by the 1 number of notches.

Be generous with your pinning and tacking. Wlhen joining a straight and a s 1 anting edge keep the slanting edge towards you; pin the two together at the ends and where the notches come, matching the latter. Then do your tacking—and don’t use what granny’s little sewing woman called “ a burning needle and a red-hot thread; ” in other words, tacking that will come out at a touch. Finish both ends securely, keep your tack-line straight, and the stitches fairly small. Then you can machine with safety, keeping your stitching very straight. Don’t hem a shaped skirt until it has been hanging up for a couple of days. There is always a certain amount of “ drop ” where the bias comes, but after hanging for fortyeight hours or so it will probably have dropped as much as it is going to.