WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

Taranaki Daily News, 28 December 1929, Page 24 (Supplement)

WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

A Wendy lady wants to make a pretty party dress out of artificial silk. So here goes, children. You’ll need about two and a half yards of material—slightly mne or less, according to your size, but tho amount suggested will do for a child of eleven to thirteen years of age. Waists aro worn higher this season! So, to bo fashionable, we’re going to make our party frock with a natural, fairly tight-fitting waistline. Measure yourself from your shoulders to your waist, and across yourself; then cut* out a piece of stuff twice the width across your chest. Fold it lengthways and widthways, and cut as shown in the upper part of diagram A, making a scoop-out in the centre of the neck and curving the arm-holes. After you’ve sewn up the side seams, bind the neck and arm-holes with strips of material cut on tho cross.

Now for the skirt. This should measure about two yards round, and must reach from your waist to just above your knees. It owes its rather unusual prettiness to the scalloped hem.’ To get

this, lay th© silk flat on the floor, and, taking a tea-plate, place it along the edge of one end of the material. Pencil half way round, as shown in diagram C —the upright black mark represents the pencil. Take up the plate, lay it down again beside the first curve to make another scallop, and so on to the other end of the material. Use a saucer as a guide if you want small scallops; the tea-plate if van! them slightly larger. V, n you’ve marked all the skirt edge in this way. cut out the scallops, and bind them at once with crossway strips, or bias binding, otherwise they will fray. Sew up the side scams; gather the top edge, divide it into four, pull up each portion of gathers to fit a fourth of the bodice edge, and tack the two together. Try on the dress and, if the gathers are even, sew them firmly in place on to the bodice.

To trim the bodice, take a long piece oi inch-wide matching ribbon, make a big lint bow and stitch it to the left side of the neckline, as explained in diagram B. You can leave the ends long, to flutter prettily down to the hem of your dress —which is now finished, all ready for your first parly. Wendy’s Dressmaker.