Directions for Using The "JUST FINE" SKIRT EVENER For Child or Woman For any Material For any Length Adjust the skirt properly at the waist and let the person stand still while the skirt is being evened. Stand the skirt evener on the floor with the lower part of the skirt hanging between the upright pieces of the evener. Adjust the gauge the distance from the floor that you wish the skirt cut off or turned up. use chalk, crayon or pencil as marker. Let the marker rest on the gauge, in a horizontal position, and press against the cloth, which in turn presses back against the upright support. The evener stands firmly enough for you to make a mark without steadying it with the other hand; but if you wish to do so, rest one hand on the base of the evener. Notice where the skirt naturally falls, and stand the evener in that position on the floor, neither farther from or nearer to the person. Move the evener to another place and make another mark, and so on around the skirt. You then have a line of marks around the skirt, all equally distant from the floor to guide you in cutting it off of turning it up. If you have cut the skirt longer than the floor and it bunches up in the evener, turn up the bottom of the skirt, letting the extra material fold up back against the upright support. You do not need to care how the material hangs below the gauge, just so it hangs straight to the gauge; then make the chalk mark, change to another position, turn up the extra material as before, and so on around the skirt. To even a skirt that you wish to just touch the floor when finished, set the gauge at the lowest position (which is one inch from the floor) slide the evener around the skirt, making marks with dressmakers' chalk, as above described. You then have a line of marks around the skirt, each just one inch from the floor. When you trim or turn off the skirt, measure down one inch from the chalk marks. To even a childs dress, stand the evener on a book or block. Then adjust the gauge, then move the evener and the object upon which it stands around the skirt, making marks at intervals as above described. E. G. BARNES 2121 COMO AVENUE SOUTHEAST MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. |
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