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Godey's lady's book (1840)

Philadelphia, Pa. : L.A. Godey · leaf 604

An illustration from Godey's lady's book, 1840, leaf 604
laid down the middle of the waist, and braided.This plait throws additional fulness in theskirt, and makes it set easy and graceful. Itis suitable for a child from two to tour years,and requires one and a half yards of brilliant. Earnest Coat.—Consists of four parts, frontand back, and lappet at… … The full part of the skirt is a piece set in fromthe seam where the lappet is sewed on. The WORK DEPARTMENT. 591 sleeve is cut with a seam on the outside ofthe arm, and the seam brought forward to forma cufi. It is cut in blocks, as also the frontedge, and trimmed round the bottom to cor-respond.…

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