Saturday, July 9, 2011

Adventures in Sewing... Part 2


Today for your sewing educational pleasure, here's another Adventures in Sewing by Marian Corey. This one was featured in McCall's Style News of July 1953.


He're a close-up of the text in case you're as blind as I am!


This is super helpful if you're a larger bust size than your original pattern. In my case, I'm often a size or two smaller but luckily you can employ the exact same method for taking your pattern in at the bust too!

1 comment:

  1. Very interesting - it is similar to doing the standard FBA that we all do now, but still different in that it does not lengthen the front and it adds some fabric between the CF and armsceye. I might give this a try.

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