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The Bazar's New Pattern Sheet
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The article describes a variety of sewing patterns, including a practical gymnasium & fencing suit for young girls and several garments for infants. The gymnasium & fencing suit includes pleated knickerbockers and a loose blouse, designed for fencing or general wear. The knickerbockers require precise pleating and fitting, with the pattern provided in two parts on the sheet.
For infants, the pattern sheet features several designs, including a flannel cape and hood, a shawl-shaped jacket, and a box-pleated jacket, each requiring minimal fabric and offering simple yet elegant finishing options. Other baby garments include a nightingale jacket, a delicate underslip, and a handkerchief dress trimmed with Valenciennes lace.
Additionally, the pattern sheet includes a set of French embroidered lingerie, featuring a chemise, drawers, nightdress, corset cover, and petticoat, all adorned with ribbon and embroidery. Each pattern includes detailed instructions on fabric requirements and specific cutting techniques, offering a comprehensive guide for sewing enthusiasts.
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January 1905
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39
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96
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Public Domain
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THE BAZAR’S NEW PATTERN SHEET
The patterns given on the accompanying supplement are drafted to the same proportions and after the same style as the Bazar’s cut paper patterns. On the supplement, all seams are allowed, and the width is indicated clearly on the sheet.
As many persons prefer to pay the cost of the pattern rather than to trace it from the sheet, the Bazar has arranged that these patterns are for sale at the same prices as cut paper patterns, except that in the case of the supplement patterns, which are given only in the one size best suited to the design, double price must be paid when a different size is to be drafted to special order.
Young Girl’s Gymnasium Suit
We show here, as one of the patterns on the Bazar’s new pattern sheet, a thoroughly practical gymnasium and fencing suit for a young girl. The suit is given in size thirty-four inches bust measure. It includes pleated knickerbockers with a divided-skirt effect and a loose blouse with plain shirt sleeves. The blouse is made to be used either buttoned straight to the neck with a standing collar, for fencing, or with a shield and sailor collar (with the same standing collar, if desired) for gymnasium wear.
In finding the various parts of the pattern on the sheet, the following facts should be kept in mind: Nos. 22, 23, 27, 28, 30, and 31 are given on one side of the sheet, and Nos. 24, 25, 26, and 29 are on the reverse side.
To pleat the knickerbockers, lay pleats one inch in depth, each one just meeting the next. These should be pressed in quite flat about halfway down, and less flat below that. Before pressing them, the knickerbockers may be tried on, and if necessary, they may be fitted in around the waist by lapping the pleats a little more just at the waistline. The necessity for this depends entirely on the proportion the wearer’s hips bear to her waist size. The pattern for the knickerbockers is put on the pattern sheet in two parts, as the whole pattern in one would be too large for the area of the sheet. These two parts should be joined, as indicated, with the two straight sides basted or glued together. Four yards of 54-inch serge will be needed to cut the suit.
Baby’s Flannel Cape and Hood
A simple and practical garment for a very young baby is the little combination cape and hood illustrated here. It is a modified square of cashmere which may be bound with ribbon, hemmed and feather-stitched, or finished with an embroidered scallop around the edge. Across the corner, a line of gathers is placed, or a band of soft ribbon for a little ribbon draw-string (the latter is the more practical plan because of the better facility in laundering the cape). Across the top of the hood, the material is gathered again a little way in from the edge, leaving a small edge for a frill. One and a half yards of cashmere will be needed for the garment.
Baby’s Shawl-Jacket
Another pretty and simple little article of clothing for an infant is the shawl-shaped jacket, which is parts Nos. 18-21 on the pattern sheet. This is merely an irregularly shaped circle with the center cut out for the neck and a pretty little turnover collar with stole ends. This collar must be seamed at the back. The edges may be finished in any one of several ways, as may those of the hood. The neck has a ribbon bow, and at each side, the jacket is caught together with a little bow to make an effect somewhat like a sleeve. For this pattern, 1 yard of cashmere or flannel 36 inches wide is required.
Baby’s Nightingale
The baby’s nightingale pattern is another which is simple and very easily made. It is a circle with cuts at the sides to give the sleeve effect and is somewhat more like a jacket than the one previously described. One yard of cashmere 36 inches wide will cut the pattern.
Baby’s Box-Pleated Jacket
For a baby of six months old is the pretty little box-pleated jacket. It has plain square jacket fronts, coat sleeves, a double round collar, and turned-back cuffs. All of the edges are prettily finished with a hem, feather-stitched, and a little crocheted scallop of silk. One and a half yards of cashmere or flannel will cut the jacket.
Baby’s Underslip
The petticoat or underslip pattern for a little baby has only two parts. It is dainty and fine in the extreme. The edges of the material should be rolled in the old-fashioned way—not hemmed, with only the ruffle having a narrow hem-stitched hem. When the little edges have been rolled, the lace should be carefully overhanded on. One and a half yards of lawn will cut the slip.
Baby’s Handkerchief Dress
Valenciennes lace and fine lawn are the correct materials for the little handkerchief dress, too. The trimming is the four corners of a fine handkerchief with lace sewn around the edge. There is a little plain square yoke of lace and fine nainsook insertion, and over this are placed the handkerchief corners as revers. It will take 2 ½ yards of lawn for the dress.
French Embroidered Lingerie
In the set of French lingerie illustrated here, there are five garments, which should be finished in a similar design. The chemise, which is numbered first in the little diagram, is quite plain in outline. There are just the two parts—one-half of the front and one-half of the back. An elaborate design of embroidery forms a yoke effect, and below this, buttonholes are embroidered, and a ribbon is run through and tied in a bow at the front. It will take 2 ¾ yards of nainsook.
The drawers have the same effect of buttonholes and ribbons above the embroidery, and in the yoke of the nightdress, there is also the same arrangement for ribbon, with a bow at the left side, where the gown closes. Part 8 of the front of the gown should be cut twice. One part, to be used for the left side, should be cut off at the ruled line, and the right side part should have the extra piece, No. 7, attached to it at the front. The yoke patterns, both for the foundation yoke and for the embroidered outside part, must have, like the fronts, two parts, with the one for the left side being cut away as indicated by the ruled line across it. There is a seam at the center of the back of the yoke. For the nightgown, 5 ½ yards of lawn are needed, and for the drawers, 2 yards.
The corset cover is given plain on the sheet, ready to be stamped for the embroidery. One yard of lawn will cut it.
The petticoat is made for train length, being forty-three inches finished front and fifty inches back. A four-inch hem is allowed for. A pattern is given for the ruffles, the upper one to be cut two inches narrower than the lower one. Six yards of lawn will be necessary to cut the petticoat with ruffles.
