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HOW TO MAKE BLOUSES

Fig. (3) Plainly cut waists are the smart accessory to the sports skirt or tailored suit Strictly tailored blouses finished with a high soft collar and with regular shirt sleeves are only suitable to wear with a tailored sports skirt of homespun or tweed or the plainest of a knockabout suit. On the other hand, there is a blouse classed as tailored which has a more diverse purpose. It's a blouse with a flat plain collar as the blouse in Fig. 3.

The style of such a waist may vary to the extent of a flat round collar or a different placing of the tucks but the general lines remain the same.

If the material is voile, batiste, handkerchief linen or a wash silk such as crepe de chine it makes a charming accessory to either a plain

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