How I Learned at Home to Make My Own Dresses

Southland Times, Issue 18834, 29 May 1920, Page 10

How I Learned at Home to Make My Own Dresses

BY ELLEN FUMY CIARKE

Yesterday, after lunch. I had just slipped into ntv new blue one piece dress ami was getting ready to go down to lown. warm the door !>.■■!! rang, and who should it be bar Jama Whitelaw. whom 1 hadn't seen for nearly six months. The first thing Jr.net < vlaimed. as she Stood in the door, was: “Oh: Ellen, toll me where in the world did 'you yp t that lovely "I made it Ml niy,v!i." "Put, Ellen !" >!’■’ fairly gasped; "made it vonrsidf. How when win re did you ever learn ! kon never tired In sew a Stitch ! ’ "1 know 1 didn't : but. 1 male this drr-s ju.-l the same, ami. not only ih:s. but so many other things, that I have, more clothes than 1 ever bad Ixilore.” "Well, till me this minute how you did it .“ Bti I went in the wardrobe, and came back with an armful of dainty things that, mad." Jane*, stare in astonishment. "To begin with." I said, "this dress I have on b a reproduction of an exclusive model I saw tn a shop Window, marked lit. It cor; m" exactly til - for the materials, end '.' think they are really of better quality. And here's an ev- rung dre-.- that Jack says is th— prettiest tiling I cv-r -.vor" 1 , 1 eopiwl it from a fashion magazine, and the ma'aI-. -’-. c,wi ".racily flu. -. Then ! hav .• made two he Use dres.-es. tour apron a a talfcta petticoat amt urn .r-reh >t hj: ng. teat 1 have saved more limn k'2 on. "Hut you haven't told no- %•<■;." insisted Janet, "where you learned,.' "’Veil, then, b-tett. and .you .h:dl boar. About four month' ago I r“ad tn a m'Wsp:ip"r about a .-cr.ool ot dressmaking that had developed a wonderful imw plan

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through which one could learn Dressmaking at home 1 1 . spare time. I began to think how much it would mean if I could make my own clothes; so 1 wrote to them. They explained everything free, ami told just exa- tiy how you could learn every step, even though you had no experience whatever. Why, think, Janet, more than 8000 women and girls nave already learned to make : heir own clothes by this new plan. You <•■... it rim.-n't make the slightest difference where you jive—in city, small towns and in the country—all are learning with the same success as if they were together in a eh ss-mo-M. Isn't it wonderful? "Well, I took it up. and I soon realised how easy it is to learn without leaving home. Every step is explained so clearly, mid ther- are hundreds of illustrations that show just exactly what to do.” Hut Jam; broke in right here: “Ellen, this is wonderful I Tel! me how 1 can learn all about it myself." So 1 ;o!d her that if she would send to the Associated School of Dressmaking, Sydney, am! would tell them that she was m ist interested in learning Dressmaking at Home, that they would send her by return in;-:, absolutely without charge, a copy of their interesting publication, “How to Learn Presentaking Quickly anil Easily.” And if yru. my dear r-rruler, would like to know more ah' ui how you can have more and prettier cloth's and save money, as I am coin-’-, I -urgest that you, too, write promptly, being sure to mention the Southland D;-.ilv Times, and s'ate whether you aiv. Mrs ‘nr Miss. SEND NO MONET; ruini" -an ! vour name and address NOW. to the ASS D(‘i AT ED SCHOOL OE DRESSMAKING. -No. It), Canberra House, 29d-8 Elizabeth. Street. SYDNEY. Mzßo7