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How I Learned at Home to Make My Own Dresses.
3.7 ELLEN P URDY CLARKE.
A GRAND PUBLICATION-FREE.
Yesterday after lunch I had just slipped into my new blue one-piece dress and was getting ready to go down to town, when the door-bell rang, .('id who should step in but Janet Whitelaw, whom I hadn't seen for nearly six months. The first thing Janet exclaimed as she stood in the door was: "Oh! Ellen, tell me -where in the world did you get that lovely dress?" "I madfl,it all myself." • "But, linen!" she fairly gasped; "made it yourself? How—when—where did you ever learn ? You never used to sew a stitch!" 1 know I didn't ; but I made this dress just the same; and not only this, but so many other things, that I have more clothes than I ever had before." "Well, tell mo this minute how vou did it." 3 ko J went to the wardrobe and came back with an armful of dainty tilings that made Janet stare in astonishment. "To begin with," I said, "this dress 1 have on is a reproduction of an exclusive model I saw in a shop window, marked £9. It cost me exactly (14/- for the materials, and X think they are really of better quality. And here's an evening diess that Jack says is the prettiest thing I ever wore. .1 copied it. from a fashion magazine, and the materials costexactly 35/-. Then I have made two house dresses, four aprons, a taffeta petticoat, aiul underclothing, that I have saved more than ±'2 on." But you haven't toUl me yet,'* insisted Janet, "where you learned." "Well, then, listen and y OU shall hear. About four months ago I read in a newspaper of a school of dressmaking that had developed a wonderful new plan through which one could learn dress-
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 May 1920, Page 6
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