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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 128

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. Bound Open Welt Allow one-half to three-fourths of an inchseam, pin, baste, and stitch seam in regularway. Remove basting, trim off one side of mate-rial, turn the wide side over the trimmed edge,turning outer edge under the same as a hem,keep it smooth and even. Baste and stitch on outer edge.… … STRAP SEAM If coat is unlined baste so raw edges ofseam come on right side. After stitching trim seams off to one-fourth no The Dress You Wear of an inch and press open. Cut strap one andone-half inches wide, eithercross-wise or bias, fold edgesunder, leaving finished strapthree-fourths of an inch…

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