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 half of your panel and seven spaces of which to consider the width. The best plan is to make the front panel the width you desire and then divide the remaining amount equally. If the whole front panel were to measure four inches, on the half of the skirt it would take up two inches. Substract half of the width of the front panel from half the waist measure. In the case mentioned above, you would have left two inches from fourteen or twelve inches to be taken up in seven spaces. Dividing the amount as nearly equal as is practical, it gives you one and five-eighths for the first two spaces back of the front panel and one and three-quarter inches for the remaining spaces. Make a memorandum of this.


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Figure how you will space the pleats at the hips. After substractingsubtracting [sic] one half of the width of the front panel, divide the remaining hip measure into seven equal spaces. In the case