ABSTRACT
In the days of sewing-machines, paper models, and fashion magazines, with their accompanying illustrations of the ever-changing mode, there can be no more reason why a lady should not employ her leisure time in making her own dresses, than there was in earlier days against the maids and matrons of England’s upper and middle classes sitting at the distaff and manufacturing their own linen. When dressmaking is undertaken at home it involves considerable trouble. In a large family there would arise a pleasing rivalry as to who could exhibit the most taste, could best turn to account a somewhat short length, or could invent the newest and most appropriate trimming. Tissue-paper patterns are invaluable to those who wish to make their dresses at home.
