This section is from the book "Text-Book On Domestic Art", by Carrie Crane Ingalls. Also available from Amazon: Textbook On Domestic Art: With Illustrations And Drafts.
Material, 5 yards, 36 inches wide, with flounce of same material, or 3 1/2 yards cloth and 4 yards hamburg or embroidery 12 inches deep.
Cambric, Fruit of the Loom, Pride of the West, etc., are suitable cotton cloths.
Write measurements as follows, each pupil putting her own measurements in place of the models given.
Waist. (Model 24 inches.) Hips. (Model 39 inches.)
Width around bottom. (Model 2 1/2 yards above dust ruffle.)
Lengths: Floor | Dress | Deducting Dust Ruffle | |
(Model 40 | ..........36... | ......32) | |
Side. | (Model 42. | ..........38.... | ......34) |
Back. | (Model.41. | ..........37... . | ......33) |
No allowance for seams.
 
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