Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1920 — DAINTY SILK POPLIN DRESS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DAINTY SILK POPLIN DRESS

This tan silk poplin dress is charming for the young woman, especially when It Is piped with old rose and softened by a dainty white collar.

This working pattern was a 'cut out of heavy paper and on the paper was sketched the pattern of the lace trimming, with carefully written memorandum of the number of yards of lace required. The working pattern, or dummy, as it Is called, then went to the factory, In a room 200 feet long and half as many feet wide the material for the chemise Is plied in layers and layers, and sometimes a hundred or more chemises are cut out at one time with an electric cutter. In another room the yards of lace for the trimming are being cut. Along go the material and S minings to another department with j dummy sample, and the pink chemise moves along from machine to machine, where busy girls do various kinds of work; Hemming, felling: seams, hemstitching, joining lace, ruffling, and even sewing on buttons. The, final process is the pressing and them the pink chemise is ready to go on lIS' journey to you. Yet all its peregrinations from designer to cutter, to stitching machines, to pressing room have taken less time than it took one worker to make the pink linen chemise by hand!