WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

Taranaki Daily News, 8 September 1934, Page 21 (Supplement)

WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

ANOTHER “SPECIAL REQUEST.” ■Several .Wendy girls have made the same “special request” instructions for making a set of. clothes for a doll, so we hope they will be pleased with the outfit suggested here. It is planned for a doll about twenty inches tall, so you. must adapt it to fit your own special pet, and make the little garments either larger or smaller, as required. Dolly wears a pair of cami-knickers, a princess petticoat, and a dress. To make the cami-knickers, you need two pieces of lawn or cambric, nine inches deep and eight inches wide. Fold each piece and cut as shown in diagram A. The garment is joined down the centre-front, at centre-back, on the shoulders and along the inner leg-seams. Leave two inches unjoined at the centre front and hem the edge. Join the shoulders with french-seams first, then the back and front, and finally the leg-seams. Turn in the armholes, the neck-opening, and the leg edges and trim them with narrow lace, neatly whipped on. Sew two buttons on the front opening, and make two tiny buttonholes to correspond. The petticoat is made from a piece of material eighteen inches long and sixteen inches wide. Fold widthways and lengthways, then cut as shown in diagram B. Join the shoulders, then the side seams, and cut down the centrefold at the back for two inches. Finish this opening just like the cami-knicks, then turn in the neck-opening, armholes, and hem, and finish them with lace. The frock is made of printed material, and has panel-shaped back and front, with gathered panels let in at the sides. The puffed sleeves complete a smart and dainty dress. Take a piece of material eight inches wide and twenty

inches long for the main part of the frock, fold widthways and lengthways, and cut as shown in diagram C. Now cut two pieces for the side-panels, eight inches wide and five inches deep. The puff-sleeves are six inches wide and three-and-a-half inches long at the deepest parts. Join the shoulders of the dress, then sew up the side-seams. Run three rows of gathering-threads along the top of each side-panel, as shown by the dotted lines in the diagram, and pull the panels up until their gathered edges will fit into the main part of the dress. Join them down the sides of the back and front of the dress, and along the edges of the bodice-part, as shown in the finished frock, then turn in a halfinch hem round the edge of the skirt. Join the little side-seams of the puffsleeves, run a gathering-thread round the curved top of each, pull up to fit the arm-hole, and sew in place neatly. Make casings at the edges through which you can thread elastic. Cut a two-inch deep opening down the centre-front of the dress, and bind these edges, and the neck. Sew two press-studs On tjie opening, and stitch on a ribbon-bow, with long ends, to conceal the fastenings. Wendy’s Dressmaker. LET THERE BE LIGHT. A TOWN GIVES THANKS, We have so often heard of bankrupt towns ’ in America that it is a pleasure to learn of one with a good round sum in the bank. Middletown in Delaware is so sound financially that it has felt moved to make a thank-offering for having been spared the dishonesty ,and mismanagement that have brought other localities to ruin. And what more appropriate place to make this offering than the church? The six churches and chapels of Middletown are, henceforward, to receive their electricity free of charge. With an outstanding debt of only £12,000 and a bank balance of £B4OO, Middletown feels that it can afford to make this contribution to the institution which teaches tire principles that have saved it from New York's and Chicago's sad plight. THE GIRL AND THE YACHT. A RACE AT A LAUNCH. The people of Thomastown, Maine, saw an exciting race the other day. It was an impromptu contest between a yacht and a girl. Miss May Gould was chosen to name her father's new schooner yacht Segochet. When a vessel is named a bottle is broken over her bows, and ignorant seamen believe that if the bottle fails to break the ship will have bad luck. Miss Gould, wishing not to hurt the seamen, swung the bottle against the bows as the yacht slid down the slipway into the water, but it did not break. She was dressed in white, but ran along, jumped into the harbour, and swam after the yacht. She caught it up 300 feet out, and duly smashed the bottle.