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The dress you wear and how to make it (1918)

Rhoe, Mary Jane. [from old catalog] · New York, London, G.P. Putnam's sons · leaf 117

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length. Find out the inches necessary for the re-quired number of tucks to be used, pin verycarefully or mark and baste the material allin one place at least half-way up the skirtthe full amount to be used in tucks to get itout of the way. Put skirt on, turn up even around the bot-tom, length of… … TUCKING CIRCULAR SKIRTS the bottom and decrease in size towards thetop, the hem should be as much wider thanthe first tuck as there is difference in thetucks; that is, if the first tuck is four andone-half inches, the next tuck three andone-half inches, then the hem should be fiveand one-half…

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