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 pattern and make a two-piece skirt pattern, as described before. Trace your new front-piece and lay it on another piece of paper. Mark around it and then turn over the pattern bringing the center-front edge to the center-front edge of the outline you have just made. (See Fig. 39.) Line AB is the center-front.

Mark where you want your closing, as line CD in Fig. 39. If you want it to look straight up and down when the skirt is on, run it a little to the back at the bottom. That is, if it is five inches from the center-front at the top make it six inches from the cen-