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 A COMPLETE COURSE IN DRESSMAKING

When it’s a little boy’s blouse or trousers or piece of underwear you are running up, keep to the standard rules for stitching and finishing boys’ clothes.

You have already learned most of the finishings that you need in making their clothes. This lesson will merely tell you where to apply them. I am not going into pattern making in boys’ clothes. You see it is Just the same prin-

making other gar- ments. If you want to make patterns, fit a good plain blouse and trouser pattern and use
 * ciples as you applied in

Fig. (5) A regulation suit for the it for a block. ten- or twelve-year-old boy

The garments which [ am using as examples of the different finishes are standard styles that can be secured from any commercial pattern company.

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