The following ways of making a skirt even at the bottom are suggested:

1. Put the skirt on, and place a yardstick perpendicular to the floor and close to the body. Mark the skirt at the top of the yardstick. Turn around, keeping the yardstick at the same distance from the body, and mark points around the skirt at the top of the yardstick. This gives a line parallel to the floor. Spread the skirt out on a table, and measure down at right angles to this line the correct number of inches to make the skirt the desired length.

2. Chalk the end of a yardstick or ruler. Open the lower drawer of a dresser far enough to hold the stick, and keep the stick as nearly parallel to the floor as possible. Walk up to the end of the stick, and turn slowly letting the chalked end of the stick mark the skirt. Spread the skirt on a table, and measure down from this chalked line the correct number of niches to make the skirt the desired length.