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RIDING TRAIN. Diagrams 320 and 321.

The Riding Train is a garment admitting of great variation in cut and style.

During recent years it has undergone great changes.

The most important of these have been in some safety arrangement below the pommel, so that if the wearer is thrown, she would free herself from the saddle.

Many of these patterns are exceedingly complicated, and require considerable skill in putting together.

I have given one example of each style, all of which are simple and reliable.

The close-fitting ordinary style of Riding Train consists of two parts only, and could be made up by almost anyone.

The diagram as marked had better be used as a reduced model.

If reproduced by the ordinary inch-tape, it will produce a pattern suitable for a lady 24 waist, 40 seat, and 40 side length.

For larger or smaller sizes, a larger or smaller graduated tape may be used.

Variations of length may be adjusted at the bottom.

Alterations in size of seat may be made at the sideseams.

The V taken out of the top side at 2G, 32, is to provide for the knee.

The V taken out of underside at 32. 37, is to provide for the pommel and produce a clean fit under the knee.

Any variation in the size of waist may be adjusted at the V's.

The positions of the foot elastics are marked at 43 and 28.