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 Making a pattern for a Straight Hanging Dress with Back Closing: You can make many variations in your straight hanging dress pattern. The placing of the closing is merely a matter of choice. The shape of the neck, too, can be changed. You can do away with the darts at the shoulder, if you desire.

In copying such a style as is shown in Fig. 41, use your original diagram for the straight hanging dress before the dart was put in at the shoulder. Mark the neck outline as desired. Then instead of running the line AB, Fig. 34 to the shoulder, stop it below the armhole and run it over to [ 34 ]