A Complete Course in Dressmaking/Lesson 1
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 How to select clothes and colors that suit your type. Lessons in making simple stitches, seams and finishes The correct way to take measurements. Sewing equipment. |
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A COMPLETE COURSE IN
DRESSMAKING
BY
ISABEL DeNYSE CONOVER
LESSON I
INTRODUCTION
NEW YORK
EDWARD J. CLODE
COPYRIGHT, 1921, 1922, BY
EDWARD J. CLODE
Entered at Stationers’ Hall
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Chapters (not listed in original)
- What does style mean to you?
- Clothes etiquette: clothes that suit the place and the season
- Correct mourning
- How to use your fashion magazines
- What is your type?
- Becoming colors
- Combining colors
- Your sewing machine
- Regulating the tensions
- Proper thread and needles
- Sewing machine attachments
- Hand sewing
- Seams and their uses
- How to take measurements
- Sewing equipment
- How to study
- Test questions
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