The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-01
CLASSES IN DUESSMGETNG
WOVEN y HO BENEFIT M TINE
RIGHTR COST az LIVING.


.I.. cry about tho high cost Of living
increased my earnings from $3.50
, 90 u- declared woman VINO for
% yeap has heoa doing sewing by
..v ~ New York 4 have always
..i my regular customers and BEEN kept
...y busy. hat for the past few years
,.s.. has been a tendency 20 cut out my
u,T. Many IT my patrons complained
,.y living IN hotels they found Il either
A,ult " expensive TO supply the three
meals which ! have always included in
ry yharges when going out by the day.
LAST winter several of my patrons
r-gcad Of employing an extra sewing
CH SO help me by doing the machine
stitching and other branches of dress
rUaAing that require les skill did il
themselves. In one place where there
A.. a mother and two grown daughters
a.l three gave up their engagements for
mo- >aks Of helping 10 get their fall and
Olntsr clothes made ~ cheaply "a possi-
n.s Of course this was not gain to me.
r' when two families proposed 20 club
together and engage me 20 direct them
md do only the most dificult work |
suggested that my charges should he
move
They didn't object 10 the proposition.
because even then they said il would be
saving for them. From that beginning
things have gradually worked around 20
vhere have placed my charges AZ 81 a
DAY and meals for classes Of from two 10
four.
These classes are made up either Of
hired assistants or Of patrons. II a
ratron gets tired or II not well and wants
her work carried on shs il at liberty 20
hire a sewing girl 10 carry on her work
under my direction. This doesn't han
ren very often, because women are really
trying 20 cut down expenses By helping
make their own clothes this spring.
1 have every day taken between now
and the middle Of August by classes.
and a. rule there are four in each class
Sometimes more than one member IL from
rhs same family. but usually not. Il
takes longer. but in the end IL IL a great
saving Of money. besides teaching the
women enough sewing 10 care for their
own clothes.
4 don't know that there has ever been
another season when such a plan would
have worked a. well. This spring there
il % much hand work Of every sort used
that the amateur dressmakers really
are more useful than a hired girl to do
machine stitching.
An women know HOW 10 do a little
hand sewing. 30 that when proDerly
directed they are able 20 make their
own garments with very little assistance
from me. Doing the work in a class com
posed OF their intimate friends takes
away much % the tedium Only last
week ] had a patron say she enjoyed
her sewing Lessons 10 much that she
Intended henceforth % make all her
own clothes instead q playing bridge
AZ she had been in the habit Of devotinR
three days in each week 70 cards | told
her she could easily do IT,
Sewing one day a week would give a
woman 81 the well 20 do class an the
clothes she nesds. This would include
everything except tailored suits and hats
AZ millinery 10 not hard there IL no reason
why she shouldn't trim her own hats IN
der the direction Of visiting milliner lust
a. abe makes her clothes with my assist
Ance,
when a woman doesn't care 20 give
the time TO embroidery she can easily
buy the work done on unmade garments
] don't know Of a garment for women or
children that cannot now h. bought IN
made with all the embroidery. tucknR
and lace inserted This makes Il very
easy 70 get deliberately trimmed garments
q tine quality for very much less than
the finished garment would cost and
Decides insures a better 10 than the ready
O. wear clothes
In one Of my classes. the class with
which am working this week. each % the
four members has made two elAborate
ahirtWAists a day. The waist PATTERNS
were bought already embroidered OF
tucked or with whatever fancy work thew
preferred. and there was only the cutting
fitting and making 10 do. That 10 neither
very diiicult nor very tedious on q shirt
waist. IL this way the cost Of the waists
vac cut down az least One-haf
Resides this there was an extra econ
ony when the embroidery on one waist
pattern was made TO seTve for two gar
ments Haven't you noticed that all the
expensive embroidered patterns for IN
made ahirtwaists for this season have
embroidery for both hack and front Of the
garment. II you will notice very few
women care 10 have their waists en-
s-oidered in the hack. 20 lt /. easy TO
"a
waist and Use the embroidery Intended
Tor the hack Of the pattern waist ~ front
for the second. Many ~ the waists
turned out by my patrons couldn't be
fought down town for three times the
amount they cot counting my charges
When II comes 20 drpasmaking the
saving IA even greater. The making Of
sImmer dresses. especially Of wash ma
terials. IL never difficult when YOU under
81
'he part ol the work that | do in all NV
classes my patrons get the same results
a. they would if did all the work Under
wear even the most elaborate ~ not
0fiCllt. when you 20 a. u understand
rglv
A. first / did find it verv different from
v0rking alone or even with the assistance
n girl 20 do the machine stitching. Il
vas because Of this difference. which was
confusing az first. that ! said ! must
'hArge more for my time. 4 few lessons
and the strangeness wore % and nov !
,an manage 20 keep along with my four
assistants about as well a. ever did With
one girl.
Interest has a great deal 10 10 with
no success Of such work III a woman
i- not Interested does not do the work
from preference then she had much better
no. Try 70 do % a. all. Il will take lees
money out Of hes husband pocket IN the
lrE nun for heT 70 have al her clothes
mad. than 20 undertake 20 do the WOrk
herself and make a botch u H.
no only bOtChes that ! have turned
on from my CLASSES have been those made
boy TWO women who were anxious 10 i'm
rra-s rhe world with their heiple1aneas
One did % because she imar ned Il was
sUsi1cratic and the other from aSinesa
7 no Ialiness could not cure. huf the other
Tpaderf oniv "a ~ assured that Mrs So