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 A COMPLETE COURSE IN DRESSMAKING

A Little Boy’s Smock: This brings us to the little fellow’s blouse. It’s my advise to make his blouse a smock. Wouldn’t almost any little boy look nice in a linen or chambray smock such as is shown in Fig. 27?

If he is just a little two-year-old boy, make his trousers like the bottom of a romper. If he’s older, he can have straight trousers with the smock.

Fig.(25) The sleeve Fig. (26) The cuff turned right side out stitched a second time

A yellow smock with blue linen collar and cuffs and blue linen trousersare attractive. All gray chambray or linen is also nice, working the smocking or shirring in bright tones to liven it up. A tan smock with brown trousers, collar and cuffs is becoming to the brown

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