3938. If there are three flounces of different widths, let the bottom and widest one have the most fullness; three inches more fullness will be sufficient. If the flounces are on the straight, allow eight widths in the flounce to six widths in the skirt.
3939. A small cord run in at the top of the flounce makes it look neat. Before running the cord in your flounce, join it round the exact size of the skirt; join round likewise your flounces, and full them on the cord as you go on.
3940. Halve and quarter your flounces and also the skirt, and you will find them no trouble to put on.
3941. Sleeves.—In making sleeves, with one good pattern, strange as it may seem, you can very easily make six different fashions by cutting your sleeve a little longer or a little shorter, and putting on different trimmings, by making some in a band at the wrist, or leaving them loose, by trimming the loose sleeves on the back or fore part of the arm.
3942. The same shape is, by a dressmaker, altered in the manner I describe, and with a little observation, I think, can be done.