Dressmaking Equipment
It is as necessary that a home dressmaker has the proper tools to work with as a carpenter.
Without them one is handicapped in various ways and is liable to find the work a discouraging task.
In these days of advancement and progress, even the Home woman is learning that there is a limit to endurance, and home life and duties should be made a pleasure and all work done in a business-like way.
This, one of the home studies and economic feature of the housewife's accomplishments, sewing, has been much of a task because of lack of knowledge on the subject, also lack of equipment.
The sewing workshop is as necessary to the worker as the kitchen is to the cook. Surgeons, doctors, and nurses make equipment the first consideration. Yet we take a pair of old dull shears and cut uneven edges in good material and get along as best we can, which is all wrong.
Let us have everything necessary to turn out good work in our home dressmaking parlors, so that our work will not look homemade:
Dress form
Skirt guage
Shears (9 or 10 inches long).
Paper of needles (No. 7).
Basting cotton (No. 60).
Skirt rule 48 inches long, bought at a tailors' supply house.
Tape line.
Pins, with good points.
Emery bag.
Tracing wheel.
Tailors' chalk.
Beeswax.
Tailors' punch, bought at hardware store or tailors' supply house (for buttonholes).
Tailors' cushions (2 sizes).
Press cloth.
Sponge.
Whisk broom.
Two pressing irons (12 pounds and 6 pounds).
Sewing table. Sewing machine.
