St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-19
around the shoulders before blind

around the shoulders before blind
stitching the hem above the hand.
The Innings of coats are generally
loose around the bottoms, which will
greatly facilitate work on the pockets;
ii not, you must rip them loose. If the
pockets are very much worn, cut of the
bad places and seam on pieces Of stout
muslin of the exact pattern, allowing
for the seams. Sometimes the corners
of the pockets are torn loose from
the coat. Fasten them down to
strong stays on wrong side and
press we'll from both sides
with damp cloth laid over, as
before. Now stitch down Oh the right
side with the machine, following the
same line of stitching. Where the
pocket joins the coat. which is gener
ally faced with farmers satin, or cloth
like the garment, the facing sometimes
becomes worn; rip it up and fell on
new piece neatly. Buttons tear out,
taking bits of cloth with them. Here
is chance for your very neatest work.
matching stripe or plad. if any,
and fell down on the wrong side
with stitches that do not go
through, turn out the right side aud
blind-stitch down all around the worn
place, press, and sew the buttons on,
and even if the patch is slightly larger
than the button, it will not be noticed.
There is a black rubber button ribbed
exactly like the silk and cloth buttons
which are so much used on mems
suits, and which give such poor wear.
They cost from ten to fifteen cents
dozen, and never wear out.
Whenever the lining is worn basic
under a piece of goods as near like
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turn in seam and fell around neatly,
press from the wrong side of the lining.
Don't hurry with any part of your work.
Neatness is worth more than dispatch in
work of this kind. In sewing the but
tons on down the front you must not let
the stitches show on the wrong side.
Don't knot your thread, but draw the
ends through between the lining and the
outside, then pass the needle through
the eye of the button and through the
outside cloth and the interlining only.
[ always pity a man whose buttons, al
though they may be sewed on, show
great knot of thread when his coat is
opened. Re-work the buttonhoes with
twist. 1t is much easier to work over
the old butt0nholes than to make new
ones. So much for the coat, which is
now ready for cleaning. The mode of
operation is the same for the vest. You
will probable have much patching of
Innings to do.
To repair trousers is the most diff
ficult of all. They will doubtless be
frayed at the bottom, in which case pro
coed exactly as you did with the sleeves
of the coat at the hand. If the seat is
broken, rip the seam, cut out the worn
place and cut new piece by it, allow
ing for seam, button and top. Basic in
place, seam on the machine, and press.
You must be careful to cut the worn
places straight across. and in setting
in the new piece try and have
the cloth run exactly the same
way. The pressing is the most es
sential part. If the knees are broken
rip the leg seam and fix in the same
way, but of course trousers thus patched
cannot be worn to business as they can
on the farm. If these spots are simply
worn, and not broken. lay a piece of
new cloth under on the wrong side,
and fell down, then on the right side.
and with silk of the same shade darn
the thin places. If this is done
neatly, and well pressed, it will
not be noticed. Stitch up the seams
again, and press open OH the wrong
side. Give the final pressing, after
cleaning with warm water, to every
quart of which add tablespoonful each
of amonia and alcohol. You can make
the fold down the front by laying the
legs on board, right side out, with the
seams exactly corresponding; place a
wet cloth over and press with a hot iron.
Clean and press the coat and vest, and
you will be surprised (and so will your
John) by the new look of the whole suit.