1916—Tailored Skirts
Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts & Sciences, by Mary Brooks Picken

To the Student:

A whole section devoted to skirt-making may seem inconsistent with the commonly recognized theory that skirts which give evidence of or emphasize the waist line are in poor taste. But the sports skirt and the tailored skirt as a part of a coat-suit will always find a place in the well-dressed woman's wardrobe, and to know how, to make all kinds of skirts, full or narrow, straight or circular, plain or plaited, one-piece or many-gored, is essential to a complete sewing knowledge.

Fashion selects from everywhere, for skirts as for other garments, going hack again and again into the past for a line, an effect, a novelty. So, to evidence skill in fashion adaptation, one must know, the byways as well as the main road of all garment construction; hence the variety considered in our instruction.

M.B.P.