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A COMPLETE COURSE IN
CONTENTS:
Introduction page 3
The Sewing Machine 5
Home Sewing Equipment 6
Style and Color 7
The Pattern 8
Trimmings 10
Seams 12
Sleeves, Cuffs and Collars 16
Plackets, Fastenings & Buttonholes...18
Belts and Pockets 22
Hems 26
Proper Steps in Making a Dress 28
Proper Steps in Making a Coat 29
Shrinking and Pressing .30
Children's Clothes 31
PUBLISHED BY MADELENE PERRIN
AT ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS
© 1920
Introduction
T
HE art of personal adornment is as old as the history of mankind. The instinctive desire for beauty expressed in the earliest tools and pottery shows how natural is the impulse to make a useful object pleasing to the eye. Costumes, even more than the necessary tools of existence, indicate this desire for beauty.
We usually think of history in terms of important battles and soldiers. It is also the custom now to think of history as a succession of economic systems. But nothing indicates the spirit and ideals of a people so much as the kind of clothing
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