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 yardstick or tailor’s square. This line should measure twenty-seven inches. Draw the lines AD and BC at right angles to the AB line. Each of these lines should measure eighteen inches. Mark at point E one inch below point A and reslope the waistline as indicated by the dotted lines.

To slope the waistline, draw a line at right angles from point E, as dotted line marked EF in Fig. 22. Three inches out on this line

mark F. From the point of F blend a curve to the upper edge. This will give an even run to the waistline which will make