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THE MEASURES.

Place the square close up to the armpit (see Figure 1), adjust the longarm in the true upright, make a slight mark at A and B remove the square and place it on the back, so that the level of B may be found on the back seam C. These marks may either be made with chalk or by pins.

Measures:—Depth of scye, 1 to 2.

Natural waist length, 1 to 3.

Full length, 1 to 4.

Width of back. 5 to 6. Figure 2.

Continue to elbow, 5 to 7.

Continue to waist, with arm bent, 5 to 8.

Across chest 9 to 9. Figure 3.

Across bust, 10 to 10.

Front shoulder, 11 from 1 to A. Figure 1.

Over-shoulder, 12 from C over-shoulder to A.

To these may be added nape to prominence of the figure, 1 to 13, and nape to waist in front, 1 to 14. Figure 3.

These measures should be taken carefully, in proper order, and entered in the order book.