Haweis, Mary Eliza Joy, 1852-1898 · London : Chatto & Windus · leaf 92
ps off the arm just beneath the joint, orthe square seam that crosses the bladebone ? There isanother seam which is just as ugly and just as needless,which goes straight from the arm-pit to the waist. If atight bodice demands a seam down the back it cannotneed the side seams nor the seam under the… … Fig. 30.—From a drawing by Holbein. just at the joint. But in figs. 3 and 6, there should be nosuch seam ; the sleeve ought to be cut from the throat.The old sacque, of the seventeenth century (fig. 5), wasa very perfect pattern, as far as patterns go. The sleeve, 72 BEAUTY AND DRESS. whether tight…
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