| Show good dress pattern helps to avoid homemade look nothing gives a dress that unwanted homemade look any more definitely than poor fit one of the best ways of being sure your dress will fit is to start your dressmaking venture with a good pattern but bu a good pattern Is only a start because most women have figure irregularities that require changes ineather to either pattern or basted garment tor for perfect fit the easier more economical way Is to alter the th pattern farmers bulletin 1068 pattern alteration gives complete information on buying the right size of f commercial pattern and explains how bow to measure the figure and take corresponding pattern measurements ure ments allowing for extra width or length where it Is needed methods for altering various pattern pieces are illustrated by sketches showing tor for example how to make the skirt pattern larger through hips or the blouse shorter through back after marking any alterations rip the tb garment apart press pieces and cut a paper pattern from them use till this as a guide in checking lines mid d proportions of other patterns keep your basic pattern up to date by making a new one each year as shoulder and other structural lines change with the mode or you may change in size |
