WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

Taranaki Daily News, 3 November 1934, Page 21 (Supplement)

WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

FLOWER-PATTERNED nightdress.

I have had several “special requests” front older girls lately, so this week in response to one of them, I am giving instructions, for making a nightdress. Next week we shall see how to make pyjamas, and the week after, a pretty evening-dress. . . Flower-patterned cotton or artificial silk is a pretty material to use for the nightdress sketched, and you will need from two-and-a-half to three yards, according to your height. The pattern is a very simple one, for the garment is made in two pieces only. Fold your material lengthways and widthways, then cut as shown in the diagram. There are no sleeves to worry about, and no shoulder-seams. ■ Bands of material are sewn to each shoulder-point, as marked by X on the diagram, and these bands are tied In bows on the shoulders. There are also two other bands, one being sewn to each side of the front and these tie behind in a sash-bow. So when you have cut out the garmen., you must cut the rest of the stuff into strips, some of them four inches wide for the sash and the others three inches wide for the shoulder-bows. Make the sash ends each about sixteen inches long, the shoulder-bows eight inches long. Join the long sides of each strip together to form a tube, then push a

ruler, or something similar through each one, and pull the stuff through on to the right side. Press each tube, with the seam down the centre, and hem the short ends neatly. Join the sides of the nightdress with French-seams, and bind the arm-holes and neck edges with narrow strips of stuff cut bn the cross. Hem the bottom of the garment, and then put it on so that you can see just where to cut the two slits, one on each side of the front, through which to slip the two sash-ends you have made. These slits are shown by A-B on the diagram, but it is be .ter ■to put the garment on in order to get comfortably near the waist-line. Sew in the sash-ends, then sew a shoulder-strap on to each point on the shoulders, taking care to get the right side of each band facing the right way »f the garment. A row of satin-stitch spots in one of the colours in the pattern, sewn all round the arm-holes and neckopening, one-and-a-half baches awhy from the edges, will finish off the nightdress prettily.

Wendy’s Dressmaker.