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How To Design Your Own Clothes

CONTENTS Foreword 7 I Ravelings from the Workshop of a Designer 9 II Sketching Your Own Dress 20 III Cutting and Assembling 36 IV Fit or Misfit 45 V Color and Color Combinations 56 VI Economy Measures 64 VII Finishings 77 FOREWORD I SUPPOSE I know as much — which means as little — about the fashioning of feminine garments as the average man does* Being, I trust, an average man I know when a woman seems to be smartly dressed and becomingly turned out. I get that sense of subtle affinity between the clothes and the wearer which we call good taste, but exactly what preliminary steps have been taken to achieve that exceedingly worthwhile result, remain, so far as I am concerned, profound mysteries. I admire the finished product; perhaps, dimly, I wonder what might have been the processes by which the accomplishment was brought about, but for me that, substantially, is all. So for me to be trying to write an introduction for a book of this type is mildly humorous to start with. My excuse for writing it is that I know the author of it, and tremendously admire her on her own account, and because of the notable success she has achieved in her chosen field. I have known her since her childh

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