DECORATIONS---SELF-TRIMMINGS 
 
 
and grouped into cuffs and collars. Bands of tucks are used in com- 
bination with lace or insertion. When fine tucks are used on silk 
waists, an interesting effect in waist and sleeve can be made by 
stitching across the tucks, keeping them all in one direction, the next 
stitching reversing the tucks, stitching one and one-half to two inches 
apart. A band or puffing of small tucks or plaits laid in one direc- 
tion at the top, and reversed at the bottom, may be used with a plain 
or milliner's fold at the edge. 
 
 
           r 1G. z6s.-met lo.1 Of tacking plaits, to preserve their shape.

    Plaitings, like various other forms of decoration, have their 
seasons of use and disuse. They may be classified as side and box 
plaitings. Side plaits are like tucks, not stitched down, but all turn- 
ing in one direction and with the edge of each plait meeting the 
under fold of the next plait or there may be a space between. Cut 
sufficient strips of the desired width, to give the necessary amount 
of plaiting, the width of the strips on the lengthwise thread of the 
goods. From one and one-half to two and one-half times the 
finished plaiting may be used, depending on the depth of the plaits 
and the space allowed between them. Join the widths, using a 
plain seam, overcast raw edge and press seams open. Hem, or 
 
 
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