Beeton's housewife's treasury of domestic information : comprising complete and practical instructions on the house and its furniture, artistic decoration economy, toilet, children, etiquette, domestic and fancy needlework, dressmaking and millinery, and all other household matters : with every requisite direction to secure the comfort, elegance, and prosperity of the home : a companion volume to "Mrs. Beeton's book of household management" : profusely illustrated (1879)
Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary), 1836-1865 · London ; New York : Ward, Lock & Co., Warwick House, Salisbury Square, E.C. · leaf 794
times as pleatsare intended. Thewaistband must befolded to correspond.Naturally each foldof the dress containsmore material thana fold in the waist-band. A fold, there-fore, of the band istaken for the widthof the pleat, andwhat remains overis folded behind thepleat. After havingfixed the pleats of… … Fig. 33. 742 Home Needlework. responding to the three divisions of the dress. For a dress or petticoathaving a seam down the back, care must be taken that this is hiddenunderneath a pleat. Without this precaution plain dresses look very bad, as they are liable to wrinkleat the sides of the waist.…
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