Volume 1

Cassell's household guide to every department of practical life : being a complete encyclopædia of domestic and social economy.

Date:
[1884-1886?]
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Credit: Cassell's household guide to every department of practical life : being a complete encyclopædia of domestic and social economy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    I t \ S * ( ! CHILDREN’S DRESS.—VIII. CLOTHING FOR CHILDREN OF SIX YEARS. [Continued from p. 334.) In winter weather, Garibaldi Suits for girls are very com- fortable. French merino looks neat and wears well, and may be trimmed with velvet of the same colour, or black. To cut a Garibaldi bodice, take the pattern like Fig. 97 (P- 333)) cutting it high, but instead of sloping from A to c, keep it as wide at the waist as at the arms, by the dotted them, fold them, and run them again a little way in, so that no raw edges show either side. Pipe the neck, and instead of hemming it down run on a ribbon and run it down, that there may not be any rough edge to chafe the neck. Pipe the arm-holes. For the Sleeves^ measure the full length of the child’s arm ; allow a good inch over. A fair width for a bishop sleeve is about thirteen inches and a half for turnings. Unite this with a mantua-maker’s seam. Slope the top by rounding it in the way shown in the illustrations of Fig. 4 Fi^. 13- Fig. 6. Fig- 3- Fig. 17. rig. 12. Fig. 16. Fig. 19. Fig. II. Fig. 5. Fig. 13. Fig. 18. line K, and also level from K to L. Take the pattern thus in paper. The two fronts of the Garibaldi are not cut together. Take a width of the merino as long as the body pattern; fold a hem for the front, and tack it. Tack as many tucks as you wish, down from I to G and H to A. Then lay the pattern upon it, pin it down, and cut it. Both fronts are cut alike. The backs are in one, and the tucks must also be tacked in them first. Be very care- ful to see that one of the tucks comes exactly in the centre of the back. Make button-holes up the front, and sew on buttons. Make mantua-makers’ seams at the sides and shoulders. Manttia-maker’s Seams are done by running the pieces together a little way in on the n]:oht side. Then reverse 24—N. s. paletots which appear on this page. Slope the wrist away slightly towards the inside of the wrist about an inch, with a straight cut. There is rather a large arm-hole to a Garibaldi. Put in the sleeve plain with a mantua-^ maker’s seam. Pleat the wrist into a band to button, using small pleats turned one way—from the wearer. Gather or pleat the waist of the body into a band that buttons easily. To this band sew the pleats of the skirt, which may be trimmed with plain rows of velvet—black, or of the same colour as the suit. When children wear frocks with high bodies, or Gari- baldis, a high petticoat body should be worn. The piece calico will come in excellently for this. It may be cut and made precisely like the Garibaldi already described, or it