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 three and five-eighths for the first six spaces and three and three-quarter inches for the last space. Jot this down, so that you will not be confused.

Now, go back and consider your first memorandum. It gave you the amount to be pleated up at the waistline, six inches below the waistline (hips) and at the bottom. Decide how deep you want to make each pleat at each of these points. At the bottom you can divide the amount to be taken up in pleats by the number of pleats and distribute the goods to be pleated evenly. In the case of the skirt mentioned before, you have sixteen and one-half inches at the bottom to be taken up into eight pleats. This gives you two and one-eighth inches for the first four pleats and two for the last four.

At the waistline the first two pleats should be folded shallower than the others, as the