People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1896 — Bone Casings. [ARTICLE]

Bone Casings.

Mistake is made by many “home dressmakers” in putting on bone oasings drawn very tightly. They should be left loose—even wrinkled—as the bones when inserted Will bring them to their proper arching shape on the inside. Whalebone soaked in warm water an hour before using render them more pliable. Belt ribbon should never be sewed to the nnderarnl seams. Bent hooks should be chosen for fastenings, setting on first a hook and then an eye, and so on alternately down the bodice, and it will never nnhook of itself. Waist linings are cut an inch longer than the outside to allow for the stretching of the outside material. The extira length is taken up gradually in the seams.