A COMPLETE COURSE IN DRESSMAKING
shown in Fig. 2, all it means is adding belt sections below your block pattern and reshaping the neck.
Lay your block pattern on another piece of paper and mark around the front and back. (See Figs. 92 and 93.) Reshape the neck, as shown by the lines AB in the diagrams.
It is a good plan to measure on the person from the neck down the center-front and back, to see exactly how long you want the blouse to come. Apply these measurements along the center-front and center-back lines of the diagrams, marking points C.
Now measure around the person at the point where, the the lower edge of the blouse will come and find out how long to make each belt section.
Mark the belt sections straight out from the center-front and center-back lines. Where the lower edge of the blouse curves away from the belt in the front, it will be gathered and sewn back to the belt in the finished garment.
In a blouse of this type, the back will need more fullness than in an ordinary shirtwaist, so add the desired amount of fullness at the
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