WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

Taranaki Daily News, 24 November 1934, Page 21 (Supplement)

WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

TUNIC SUIT FOR LITTLE BROTHER.

A wendy girl wants to make her little brother a suit consisting of tunic and: knickers, to to-day we will have this lesson. The suit takes a yard and threequarters of double-width material. Good firm washing fabric is the best to use, then the small boy can play about in it to his heart’s content, because it will stand dozens of visits to the wash-tub! You will also need a card, of bias-bind-ing in a contrasting colour for edging the neck and sleeves, and a length of elastic to go throught the top of the knickers. The Tunic. - * - - r . ‘ To cut the tunic, take a piece of material thirty-two inches long and twenty inches wide. Fold lengthways and widthways, and cut as shown in diagram A. You had better cut a paper pattern.. first, following the measurementsgiven in the diagram, then cut the material by the pattern. Cut down the centre fold at the back of the neck for three inches to make an opening, but leave the front plain. Open out,, join the sides with- French seams, hem the lower edge, and bind the little sleeve edges. Then bind the

neck-opening, continuing the binding down the sides of the slit you cut at the back of the neckline. Sew on pressstuds for fastening. Bind the top edge of the little pocket,. turn in the other edge, tack it on the left front of the tunic, then sew it firmly. Make a belt long enough to go round the waist and four inches wide. Fold this lengthways, sew into a tube, and turn right side out. Stitch up the open ends, make a buttonhole in one, and sew a button on the other. The Knickers.

Diagram B shows the shape to cut the knickers. You must cut two parts each from a piece of material twelve inches deep and twenty inches wide. Fold each piece as shown, and lay the paper pattern on it. The dotted line across the top of the pattern shows you where to cut the front part of the trousers, as this must be a little shorter than the back.

When you have cut out both halves, join them together with French seams back and front then join the little inner leg seams. Bind the leg openings with bias-binding, and make a binding casing round the top of trousers through which to thread the waist elastic.

It may sound a wee bit complicated, but it’s really perfectly easy to plat) this knicker-pattern, if you go carefully, study the diagram/ and try it out in paper first.

Wendy’s Dressmaker.