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By Ellen Ptirdy ClarKe ■'■■''■''.■• '■ ' A trand FREE Offer■j * • Yesterday, after lunch, I had just J< «g^s,s»s t^ slipped, into my new blue one-piece. jS^^^^^^^S. "* dress, and was getting ready 'to go ■" -j down town, when the door-bell rang. M^^^^^^^wmr^t^.' * and who should it be but Janet White- ' law. Janet used to live/ next door, H but they moved to a little place m the y^^^^^Sraf^*^^>^m^Bm •' country, and I hadn't seen ncr for [J^^^^^%^l%: % ] nearly six months. '" T&mMSMsr 4 Perhaps is was because we used to go \§|jf^^Mi^&^ J S^^^^^^ on all our shopping expeditions togeth- -^xifrSS* Ws3»B'^ 2r; but anyway the flr?t thing Janet ex- , ilaimed as she stood m the door was, .. - J^ . L "Oh! Ellen, 'tell me where m they \ '**|/^v world did you get that lovely dress ?" y & ••,^^ ' \ "I'll give you three guesses," I said. / \'s " ; and. I fairly bubbled with joy when / \ \ she named the three most exclusive - k 1 find expensive shops m town. , i H j*' "Wrong every time," I announced. ' - I i "I made it myself." ' . " / '^.S / | "But," Ellen !" she fairly gasped, \; \i% } "made it yourself! How, when, where <* | did you ever learn ? You never used N, - N ' i to sew a stitch 1" " S "I know I didn't; but I made this J""w'"^~ ' ■>* iress, just" the same, and not only From a Photo by Tristram ihis, but so many'others, that I have , nore clothes than I ever had before; that they ai g0 teach- millinery if you md, if you please, I have £10 m the WOuld prefer to make 3'our own hats. jank that I^ saved on my clothes this you see, it ddesn't make the slightest season." , ' difference where you live —m city,; "Well, tell me this; minute how you towns, or m the country —all learn lid it !" with the same success as if they were So I went to the wardrobe, and together m a classroom. Isn't it won-"' :ame back with an armful of dainty derful? hings that fairly made Janet stare "Well, I took it up, and I soon, rea-' n wide-eyed astonishment. lised how easy it is to learn wifthoujtl "To begin with," I said, "this dress leaving home. "Every step is exmaJ|H have on is an exact reproduction of ed so clearly, and there are hunMiJJ^H m exclusive model Tj saw' m a shop of illustrations that show exactly Vl^H vindow marked £9. It cost me ex- to' do. Why; even little Betty ci^^H ctly G4s for the materials, and I think .understand it. It was so fascina^^H hey are really of better quality. And that I wanted to spend every SPW^| igre's an evening dress that Jack.says minute on my easy training. s the prettiest thing I ever wore. I> "I didn't think about it at first, t^H opied it from-.a fashion magazine, after a bit I realised that m learni^^B !nd»the material cost me exactly 355. t© make up my own clothes I was al^^H ""hen I have made two house dresses, learning something that I could tuJB our aprons, a taffeta petticoat, and to -profit if I ever wanted to. Sinc^H inderclothing, that. I saved altogether .then- I have found that numbers o^H nore than £ 2 on. Besides, I've made women. and igirls have taken uiH hree school dresses for Betty, and dressmaking as a business, and somjH 11 her little undergarments. Jack of tJiem have opened shops'and arflfl not believe I could do it, but doing well." . " /hen I showed him my bank .book But Janet broke m right here. "El- ■ nd how much I had saved on clothes i en, this is wonderful'!^ Tell me how -1 i such a little time he said, "Ellen, t can learn all about it myself." outre a wonder! You've never had T , , uch clothes—and to have them for 6 ° I to}s he A r that if she would . »ss than you ever spent before." «end to the Associated School of - '"•Rnt von haven't told me vet" m- Dressmaking, Sydney, and w.ould say,'.---"Well, then,. listen, and you shall Home, that they would send her- by - ear-" '. return post, absolutely without charge, About four months ago I read m a all particulars of the. marvellous As-' ewspaper about a school of dress- sociated System. And if you, my dear taking that had developed a wonder- reader, would like to know more about il new, plan through which one could how you can have more and prettier ■ iarn Dressmaking at Home m spare clothes and save money, as I am do- ': me. That was a new idea to me. ing, I suggest that you, too, write ? ut I began to think\ how much.it promptly, being sure to mention the ould mean if I could make .my..own New Zealand "Truth," and state whe- : othes, so I wrote to them.i They th'er you. are Mrs., or Miss.' Do this ■ jnt me": the most interesting particu- 'immediately, as otherwise you may. ,rs, that explained everything free, lose, the chance of a lifetime. SEND '■■ nd just told exactly how you could NO '•'. MONEY ; simply state' whether '': am every step, even though'you had you are interested, m Dressmaking or - o experience whatever. Why think, Millinery and send'your name and ad- JJ met,'-more than 22,000 women and ■>dress NOW to the ASSOCIATED - Iris have already learned. to, make SCHOOL. OF DRESSMAKING, 284-7 1' leir own clothes by this'''new plan, Castlereagh Street, corner Liverpool nd you will also .be pleased to know .Street, Sydney. ...-.'.'■•

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NZ Truth, Issue 850, 4 March 1922, Page 6

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