A COMPLETE COURSE IN DRESSMAKING
add as much fullness as you want at the side and it will hang at the side and not poke out in the front even on a large busted woman. Draw a line at right angle to your new center front line at the lower edge. (See line CE, Fig. 35.) Measure on this line, half the width you want the front. Draw a line from the bottom of the armhole to this point. Use your old pattern as a guide and draw in the curve at the side seam. This will give you the proper length of the side. Recurve the bottom, using the old pattern as a guide. Allow seams at all edges except the center-front and center-back, and also hems at the bottoms.
To make the collar pattern, place the front and back patterns on another piece of paper and trace around the upper portions of them on the original lines, without seams, keeping the edges together at the shoulder. Determine the depth that you want the neck opening in the front and draw a line from the side of the neck to this point (See Fig. 36.) Then, mark a point on the center-back line at the depth you want the collar. From this point draw a line at right angle to the center-back, line. Measuring on the center-back line, mark a point at the depth you want collar.
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