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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17902, 6 April 1920, Page 8

How I Learned at Home t© Make My Own Dresses By Ellen Purdy Clarke M Grand 5 FREE Offer Yesterday, after lunch, I had just slipped j&vsMEsssflbL into my now blue ono-piecp dress, and was J@ffi*s«&im £»e&k getting .ready to go down town, when tho IgplTjift'.'w^iL— door-boll rang, anil who should it bo but Janet Whitelaw. Janet used to live next 11111111111 Mst%m door, but they moved to a little place in llli the country, and, I hadn't seen her for '^^^^^m^^ .Perhaps it was because we used to go ' on all ou' shopping expeditions together, j "***%? 0^ but anyway, the first thing Janet exclaimed J as she stood in tho door -was, "Oh! Ellen, / \ tell me where in the world did you get S fe f* * \ that lovely dress?" i /!. *£*■?% \\ "I'll give, you three guesses," I 6aid, /'' % 1 > > and I fairly' bubbled with joy when s>he > * S'\ 1 I 1 named the three most exclusive and ex- / , //" I pensivo shops in town. / ■' f -- / I "Wrong every time," I announced. "I \ ' s 5&„ f made it myself." \', ' \ ; Ellsri!'''. she fai-Jy ".'gashed,'"'made' '* \ ' J* it yourself 1 How, when, where did you ~^*<,.i~~ r y~*.*.*** over loam! You nover used to sew a J ' Vo,n a I,u>to b y r ™tram. 8000 women and girls have already learned "I know I didn't; but I made this drees to make their own clothes by this new just the same, and not only this, but so plan, and you will also be pleased to know many others, that 1 have more clothes that they also teach millinery if you than I ever bad before; and, if you please, would prefer to make your own hats. You I have £10 in the bank that I saved on s°e, it doesn''t make the slightest difference my clothes this season." wb - ere y° u live—in city, towns, or m the t country—all learn witli the same success "Well, tell me this minute how you as if they wcro together t infta;'d&ssroom. did it." ' Isn't it wonderful? ( "■'•' J." - So I went to the wardrobe, and came "Well, I took it up, and I soon realised back with an armful of dainty things that how easy it is to loam without / leaving fairly made Janet stare in wide-eyed as- home. Every step is explained so clearly, tonishment. and there arc hundreds of illustrations that ~_,,. . show exactly what to do. Why, even little To begin with, I said, this , dress I Betty couW understand it. It was so fascihave on is an exact reproduction of an na t m(r that I wanted to spend every spare exclusive model I saw m a shop window, mimlte on m training .marked £9. It cost mo exactly 64s for the , K_. ;> Materials, and I think they are really'of- >' "I didn't think-, about ( it, at first, but better quality. And here's an ovening after a bit I realised that in learning to dress that Jack says is the prettiest thing make ut> my own clothes I was also learnI ever wore. I cepicd it from a fashion ing something that I could turn to profit magazine, and the material cost exactly if I ever wanted to. Since then I have 355. Then I have made two house dresses, found that numbers of women and girls four aprons, a taffeta petticoat, and under- have taken up dressmaking as a business, clothing, that I saved altogether more than and some of them have opened shops and £2 on. Besides, I've made are doing well." dresses for Betty, and all her little under _ garments. Jack would not believe I could Janet .broke,in right here. "Ellen, do it, but when I showed him my hank J 1 " 8 how I can book and how much 1 had saved o'n clothee learn *4, about• i«s '-: ', ' in such a little time he said, 'Ellen, you're So I . tM her that if she would send a wonder! You ve never had such clothes to the Associated Schbol of Dressmaking, -.and to have them for less than you ever Sydney, and would say that she was Tnost spent before. interested in learning Dressmaking or "But you haven't told me yet," insisted P l "!™* *\ Home ' ? vould . f end Janet, "where you learned." f°turn post, absolutely without ■ ' charge,..all particulars of the marvellous "Well, then, listen, and you shall hear. Associated System. And if you, my dear reader, would like to know more about "About four months 'azo I read in a how you can have more and prettier newspaper about a school of dressmaking clothes and ;ave money, as I am doing, that had developed a wonderful new plan I suggest that you, too, write promptly,' through which one could learn Dressmaking being sure to mentipn the "Ofcago iDai'ly at Home in spare time. That was a new Times," and state whether you are Mrs idea to me, but I began to think how or Miss. Do this -Immediately, as otherwise much it would mean if I could make my you may low the chance of a lifetime, own clothes, so I wrote to them. They SEND NO MONEY; simply state whether sent me the most interesting particulars, you are interested in Dressmaking or that explained everything free, and just Millinery and send your name and address told exactly how you could learn every NOW to the ASSOCIATED SCHOOL OF •step, even though you had no experience DRESSMAKING, No. 12, Canberra House whatever. Why think, Janet, more than 295-7 Elizabeth Street,"Sydney.■' ',j

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