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RV 4 Chemise dresses and those with low waistlines look the best on the women who have slim youthful figures. Coat styles and dresses with a suggestion of a waistline look better in the mature figure.

Match up the fabric to the style, too. If your dress has a gathered skirt, the material ought to be thin or medium weight. Thick and coarse materials need plain styles. If you contemplate draping the dress, choose a soft goods. Wiry material can’t be coaxed into pleats and folds and long, sweeping lines.

Trimmings, too, should be in keeping with the fabric. Here are a few examples:

Tucked Insets: Dresses of organdie, swiss and other light-weight stuffs often have insets of tucking in the skirt portion. Usually these insets are in the form of straight bandings above the hem of the skirt or tunic.

Cut straight strips of the material and pin-tuck them crosswise. To form a pin tuck, fold the material with the wrong sides together and crease the edge of the fold. Stitch about one-sixteenth of an inch from the crease.