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Dress Cutting -- Instructions and Illustrations for Sewing 26 Vintage 1930s Fashions
by Margaret Ralston

{softcover, 71 pages, 5.5x8.5, 2008, ISBN: 1934268852}

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Originally published in 1932, this rare sewing book teaches the block method of pattern making. The book begins by explaining how to easily make a foundation draft pattern of a simple jumper. Using your own body measurements, you're taken through the pattern making process and then you learn how to use your customized foundation pattern to make:

- SKIRTS: flared skirt, costume skirt, flared skirt with hip
  yoke, costume skirt with hip yoke
- BLOUSES: simple blouse, blouse with shoulder straps and front
  fullness
- DRESSES: coat overall, dress with skirt flared from waist line,
  dress with skirt flared from hip line, dress with hip yoke and
  flared skirt, dress with godet skirt, dress with hip yoke and
  panels at back and front and circular side pieces, dress with
  flounces, dress with flared skirt 54 inches wide at hem
- SLEEVES: fitted sleeve with dart, fitted sleeve with gathers at
  elbow
- COLLARS AND CAPES: detachable polo collar, rever collar, roll
  collar with points, simple round collar with pointed fronts,
  bertha collars, cape with shoulder dart
- PLEATED SKIRTS: yoked skirt with front pleats, four-gored skirt
  with inserted pleats at seam
- GODETS: simple godets, godets with shaped top

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