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MAKING SKIRTS THAT HAVE STYLE

pattern and make a two-piece skirt pattern, as described before. Trace your new front-piece and lay it on another piece of paper. Mark around it and then turn over the pattern bringing the center-front edge to the center-front edge of the outline you have just made. (See Fig. 39.) Line AB is the center-front.

Fig. (34) Joining the yoke to the skirt

Fig. (35) The yoke lining stitched to the side

Mark where you want your closing, as line CD in Fig. 39. If you want it to look straight up and down when the skirt is on, run it a little to the back at the bottom. That is, if it is five inches from the center-front at the top make it six inches from the cen-

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