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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17109, 2 April 1921, Page 2

LADIES! Learn at Home to Make Your own Dresses This is your opportunity to dress better and save money By ELLEN PURDY CLARKE A GRAND FREE OFFER ■^■■■^ TesterdaT. after lunch, I had Just slipped into my new bluo one-piece dress and was gotting ready to go down town, .when tho i door-bell rang and who should it be but. Janet Wh.ite.luw, whom I hadn't seen tor nearly six months. . Tho first thing Janet exclaimed as she itood in the door, was: "Oh, Ellen, tell me where in the world did you get that lovely dress!" .... » \ "1 mado it all myself. I "But, Ellen!" she fairly gasped: "made it Yourself I How—when—where did you ever , learn! Von never used to sew a stitch \ "I know I didn't, but I made this dress „ jnßt the- same, and, not only this, tout so X k many other things that I have more clothes R than I ever had before." jf "Well, tell mo this niinuto how you did >f*it" / ' So I went to the wardrobe, and came' back * with an armful of dainty things that.made ' i Janet stare in astonishment. < *s s "To bogin with," I said, "this dress I C / \ hare on is a reproduction of nn oxclusivo I■* \ model I saw in a ehop window, markod £9. \ » ..... It cost mo exactly 64s- for the materials, and V ;\,'>>:*■} I think thoy are vroally of better quality. V ~'V-*: - S/ And here's an ovenipg dress that Jack snva :■-.: : V:s>y is the prettiest thing X ever wore. I copied .;.■: :<•-' it from a fashion magazine, and the mate- , lt ~ to i Mrn , trlthoat leavlnf rials cost exactly 355. Then I have mado h Mprv M is „pi ß j„ P d so clearly, two house dresßos, four aprons, a tiureta d f0 nmulMt j ß 0 f illustrations to petticoat and underclothing, that I havo s» ve ' l • show . ugt pxnct i y what.to do." more than £2 on." B Ut j an et broke in right here: "Ellen, "But you havon't told mo yot," insisted tll | 3 | s v^,n dorful! Tell me how I can learn Janet, "where you learned." all about it myself." "WoII. then, listen and you shalL hear. So I told her that if she would send tt> About four months ago I read about a school the Associated School of Dressmaking, Syttof dressmaking that had developed a wonder- ney, and would tell them that she was wye fui new plan through which ono could learn interested in learning Dressmaking or AtHDrossmaking or Millinery at homo in spare- linery at Home, they would send her by retime. I began to think how much it would turn post, absolutely without; charge.••U Mrmean if I could make mv own clothes; so ticularß of tho marvellous Associated *>ys« I wrote to them. They explained everything tem. And if you, my dear reader, would free and told just exactly how you could liko to know more about how you can havs learn everv stop, oven though you had no ex- more and jirottler clothes or hata and *av« perience whatevor. Whv, think, Janet, moro money, as I nm. doing, I suggest that you, than 14,000 women aria girls have alroady too, write promptly, being sure.to memlon I wrote to them. They explained everything tem. And n you, my aesr rrnurr. ««« free and told just exactly how you could liko to know moro about how you can havs learn everv stop, oven though you had no ex- moro and jirottler clothes or hata and *av« perlence whatevor. Whv, think, Janet, moro money, as I nm. doing, I suggest that you, than 14,000 women aria girls have alroady too, write promptly, being sure.to memlon loarned to make their own clothes nnd hats the Christchurch '•Press, and Mite whether by this new plan. You see, it doesn't make you are Mrs. or Miss. bEM) .NO MOHJ.I : tho slightest difference whero you live—in simply state whether you arq Interested in city, small towns, or in the cbuntry-»-all aro, Dressmaking or JUlllAery and »en°\ Four learning with tho same success as if they name and address >OW, to the ABBOCI- - together in a class-room. Isn't it ATED SCHOOL OF I)RESSMAKI»O. *8 wonderful? Canberra House, 200-7, Elisabeth Street. '•Well, I took it np, end I soon realised SYDNEY. 03$ ' TRY IT IN YOUR BATH > TO H.M. THE KINO. ONIA 1 BY APPOINTMENT « .— MARVELLOUS PREPARATION Invaluable forToiletand Domestic Purposes. Softens Hard WEterv Splendid Cleansing Preparation for the Hair. Allays the Irritation caused by Mosquito Bites. Cleans Plate, Jewellery, and Carpets. j For Bale by all Gtocera and Chemists. . . | 80RUBB & CO. (Australia), Ltd., Melbourne, Victoria. ]

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