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 the fullness at the sides and were straight at the front and back. Now, the average skirt hangs about an equal distance from the figure all the way around. Some of the young girls, who go in for extremes, are wearing skirts that have the fullness swung ever so slightly to the front.

Making a Pleated Skirt: First decide how much material you want to put into the skirt. For instance, if you are using thirty-six-inch goods, you might want to put two-and-a-half widths in the skirt. Join the seams on the half. If you substract this amount from half the waist measure it will give you the amount that you must pleat up in the top of the skirt.

Suppose, when joined, the material for the skirt measured forty-four inches on the half and that the waist measure was twenty-eight inches or fourteen on the half, it would leave thirty inches on the half to be taken up into pleats at the waistline. Make a memorandum of this on a piece of paper.

Next consider the hip measure. Measure the woman six below the waistline. If you have a forty-inch hip measure, or twenty inches on the half, it will leave twenty-four inches