OUTER-GARMENTS: TAILORED SKIRTS 
 
 
give it firmness, (2) or percaline belt with featherbone extenders. 
The latter shrinks little and does not soften up. Turn the ends of 
belting but once, so as not to make it thick; sew on hooks and eyes, 
and finish the ends with a blanket stitch to keep from ravelling. 
    1. Place bias strip of cambric at top edge of skirt, so as to 
keep it firm when turning and stitching. Turn the edge of the 
skirt on the line marked for high waist line (Fig. 205C). Stitch 
through turned edge, one-eighth inch from turn, and baste skirt to 
belt, and hem belt on wrong side to stitching (Fig. 205D 1. 
 
 
   2. Turn edge of skirt as in Fig. 205C, baste to belt and stitch 
through both belt and skirt. 
   The first method has the advantage of admitting easy change of 
belting if belt softens, or shrinks in washing. In the second method 
there is less danger of the unskilled worker stretching the material 
in stitching the skirt at the top. 
   Laying and Finishing Hem.-When a good finishing line has 
been turned and marked with thread, lay the skirt out upon the 
table and measure up from the finishing line at close intervals, the 
depth you wish the hem to be plus one-quarter inch for turn or 
sewing edge; mark carefully with pins or chalk. Cut on this line. 
 
 
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