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Show MAKE YOUR OWN DRESS FORM; HERE ARE FULL DETAILS T. a dies a t ten lion. Those of you who make your j 'own clothes Will be interested in j i 1 stunt" which .Miss Kllen Agren. county homo demonstrator.' is teaching to women of Weber con nty. The "stunt" I nothing more j than an Individual clothing form and is claimed to be far superior to the best adjustable form now on the market. And cost of the ( individual form is from 90 cents to a dollar and a quarter, plus a little Ingenuity and time. All thai is needed in the manufacture manu-facture of lite clothing form Is a shirt, excelsior an'i gummed paper the kind that grocers sometimes use in pasting wrapping wrap-ping paper. Then t!io lady for whom the form a Intended dons the shirt. A neighbor, or even hubby can then bo prevailed upon to pasti ihe ?lrlps of gummed paper over the shirt. The paper can be torn in short strips and will not bnclile and bend as it conforms to th lines of the figure The pasting procedure is continued until the shirt is covered with sufficient gummed paper to give th- form rigidity, The final operations are simple. sim-ple. A pair of sclssora Is used i to rut the foi ni s'raignt down l.hn bak and the "victim" Is In tills manner released from tiei paper Shell. The back Is then stitched togcthor again. cloth stopper sowed In the top. and the form can then be stuffed with excelsior. excel-sior. ihe than Of the house can then tie . ailed upon to fit thr- bottom of the form with a' board, or a wire hoop, and the form can bs 1 affixed to a stand. Twenty -four women of Hie i country were taught to mak t h forms at a meeting held last week" and ul are enthusiastic over the n,6W "wrinkle" in dressmaking. li |