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 of the skirt used as an example, you would take two inches away from the twenty-inch hip for the front panel. This leaves you eighteen inches for the spaces between the pleats. You will remember in working on a skirt with eight pleats that you have seven spaces back of the front panel. Dividing eighteen by seven, gives two and one-half inches for the first three spaces in back of the front panel and two and five-eighth inches for the remaining spaces. Make a memorandum of this.

Determine the spacing of the pleats at the bottom, too. You know that the finished skirt is to measure twenty-seven and a half inches on the half when pleated up. Subtract half the width of the panel from this and divide the remaining amount into the seven spaces. Two inches, half the width of the panel, from twenty-seven leaves twenty-five and one-half inches. Dividing this amount by seven, the number of spaces, gives