How to Tailor A Woman's Suit
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How to Tailor A Woman's Suit - Anon Anon
HOW TO TAILOR
A WOMAN’S SUIT
by
Margaret Smith
Clothing Specialist
Well-made tailored suits of good-quality material are so expensive that many women are trying to save by making their own. It is easy to make a tailored suit if you are skillful at sewing and have the patience to do careful work. But don’t attempt a suit if you are an amateur at sewing.
You can give your suit that custom-made
look by using the tailoring techniques that professional tailors use. In this bulletin these techniques have been simplified to make suit tailoring as easy as possible.
• MATERIALS •
Suiting materials such as tweeds, stripes, men’s wear worsted, coverts, and gabardine, are all firm and heavy enough to tailor well. Wool crepes and other similar materials are too soft and dressy for a tailored suit. If you’ve never made a suit before, choose a plain-color fabric rather than a stripe or plaid. These require matching, and so take more time and care and skill.
Be sure the material is thoroughly preshrunk before you cut into it. If you can’t buy one that is labeled preshrunk, have it shrunk at the store or at a tailor shop. Or you can shrink it yourself by laying the material out flat and straight on the ironing board and pressing with a steam iron or a damp cloth and ordinary iron. (See pressing directions, p. 3.)
Lining.—For lining a tailored suit, the best choice is a color that matches the suit material as nearly as possible. Choose a mediumweight flat crepe of rayon or silk. It is not so stiff as regular lining material and won’t change the fit of your suit. Be sure the lining is preshrunk before you cut into it; otherwise, it will draw up when the suit is cleaned.
Interfacing.—For interfacing the jacket front, use a material called wigan that is sold for the purpose, or a firm muslin. Wash the material to shrink it and remove all sizing, then press it smooth and straight.
For the collar interfacing and stiffening for the sleeve pads, tailor’s canvas—a loosely woven linen—is a good choice. Many tailoring supply shops and department stores sell it. If you can’t get tailor’s canvas, a firm grade of muslin will do.
Findings.—For taping front edges of the jacket, around the armholes, and the lapel crease, you’ll need a lightweight tape or a firm cotton selvage. Tailor’s tape, a plain-woven, cotton tape about 1/2 inch wide, is firm enough, yet not thick and bulky like twilled tape, and can be shaped to fit curved edges. Or a narrow rayon tape may be used. Be sure to shrink any tape before you use it.
Mercerized thread blends well with most wools so it is best to use for outside stitching. Use rayon or silk thread for seams that get extra strain, such as armholes, and for hems. Select thread a shade darker than your suit material. For basting in folds or pleats, a fine mercerized or a six-cord thread about size 150 won’t leave as heavy a mark on the fabric after it is pressed as ordinary sewing thread.
If you plan to make worked (tailored) buttonholes, you’ll need buttonhole twist to match your suit. And to strengthen the sides of the buttonholes, buy a spool of gimp (a heavy thread used by tailors in making buttonholes), or wax ordinary sewing thread to use instead.
To make the sleeve pads, you’ll need a sheet of cotton wadding or loose cotton batting like that used