ldren's dresses. (5) Overhanding--pieces on
nightgowns, piecing ruffles and lace on underwear. (6)
Plackets--faced in drawers, petticoats, bloomers, and dress skirts.
(7) Bias band--applying to top of ruffle in petticoats and drawers.
(8) Bias binding--corset cover and nightgown. (9) Ruffle--finishing
with bias bands on petticoat and drawers. (10) Cuffs--making and
applying to nightgowns, baby slips, rompers, and house dresses. (11)
Sleeves--gathering on wrong side and putting into baby slips,
nightgowns, dressing sacques, etc. (12) Pressing. (13) Sewing hooks
and eyes on petticoats. (14) Machine instruction in cleaning,
oiling, and attachments.

3. List of articles made for stock and order: Aprons--princess,
maids', fancy. Women's clothes--dressing sacques, nightgowns,
kimonos, lounging robes, house dresses, chemises, drawers, skirts
(washable, mohair, silk), collars, and corset covers. Children's
clothes--nightdresses, night drawers, drawers, skirts, rompers,
dresses, and aprons.

4. Materials used: Cotton, silk, woolen, and worsted.

II. Vocational Section. The increasing demand for ready-made clothing
has opened a new field for girls obliged to enter the business world as
soon as the law will permit them to leave school. This requires hand
finishing on fancy waists and plain and fancy gowns, which are made by
the dozens on machines run by electric power. It is not necessary to
have a knowledge of actual dressmaking to be able to do this work. The
ability to do good handwork rapidly is the prerequisite. In some
establishments there are opportunities for girls of ability to rise from
finisher to draper, which latter position commands a high wage.

The producing of fine, handmade underwear, waists, and dresses is
another opportunity for girls who can take but a short time in which to
prepare to earn their living. Work of this character is of a much higher
grade than that of the wholesale finishing, and demands the ability to
do extremely good hand and machine work. The worker must be able to
handle the finest kind of materials and to do the most intricate work,
such as hand tucking, setting in lace, and trimmings.

Although the course in the Vocational Section trains for specific
branches, it is very necessary that all dressmaking students should have
experience in these lines in order to be better prepared for the actual
dressmaking. If, however,