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1916

Tailored Skirts, Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts & Sciences, by Mary Brooks Picken

This book gives detailed instructions for making tailored skirts (including circular and gored) as well as the all-important inside stay belt, plackets, and several types of hem treatments. (40 pages)

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1917

American Dressmaking Step by Step, A complete, simplified method of sewing, dressmaking and tailoring, by Mme. Lydia Trattles Coates

Fifteen chapters, 321 lessons (some as short as one sentence!). Mix of line drawings and photographs. (250 pages)

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