FITTING A DRESS.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 615, 29 April 1876, Page 3

FITTING A DRESS.

'A con'o i ?]lonJf ft it 'of the " feContpfc 1 " ci v « Me foildtfmt; ai-count a( n dresttmkfr in Pans who cosfcafties l nnd ball ttrrfsos without 6vcn boo■)rtg her cutConter :-— " M»daiad Duboys' salons *Tc*eftible n musclm at first Mght. Th£y are lined wrh fhrge rof\rs «f btjst»t>i ftll Rhapoa tend nze«. Whea & lruiy orders *' dron, rfip 1 isaiked for ottc of tpr'besh 'fitting b<iiVite«. Thi< jfiT*H, it l* plnced 'on the b>u*t which may bott •agree UUh it. When the body u plnced, tkUd biittotftfd. 'on tins bust, the birtfc itielf u -tilted wit by 1m«1 m«A i ns of 1 iniitr •■prmgK, until tho body loofci vi jf it wpre reaHy tfii a. lmm%n form. Kvcry »\)uce 1j« filled' u^>. The buat' lit'tnon fiiod to a pedestal -the height of'the front ot the ludy's okut. With 1 thin' the "ludy't fijjiireii perfectly reprewnled, *tm<\ fht* dfesjraaKer <(wi xrork on the modal 1 cren better th»n on the lady's «v»n "figure, A misfit 'brcoTOM afrnout an impossibility wilh this sys<tem. ?Th* lay figure is irell padded, and »hi« 'p»dding represents the ejitfrtfcifcy of the body iWlf. It it, indeed, a ctpit»l contrivance, and ■ Udifs from • distance may tiow ordetr a dress ! from* Pa^is, and be ture of 'a faultlets ciit and '-fit. 'I hope, for your «akes, that London drtu- - m«ker« ls wHl fotiem their Pan* listers' example. — 'Milliner and Dressmaker.