We give, for this month, the latest design for a bodice with panier, called the “Panier Bodice.” Folded in with the number is a SUPPLEMENT, with full-size diagrams by which to cut it out, if desired, without the aid of a mantua-maker.
The bodice consists of five pieces, viz:
I.—FRONT.
II.—HALF OF BACK.
III.—HALF OF SIDE-BACK.
IV.—UPPER HALF OF SLEEVE.
V.—LOWER HALF OF SLEEVE.
The letters show how it is put together. The long skirt part of the side-back, from E to G, is plaited and fastened under the sash at the back, as seen by illustration.
The bodice may be made of the same material as the skirt, or of a material that contrasts with it in color and texture. The skirt is box-plaited and trimmed with embroidery. The sash is moiré.
We give, also on the SUPPLEMENT, a very beautiful design for a “Palm-Leaf Pattern, in Outline Embroidery,” and describe how to work it on another page.
The lines of the bodice patterns, we may add, although they cross this embroidery pattern in more places than one, are so distinctly engraved that they do not interfere with the other.
The embroidery can easily be transferred, if wished, to another piece of paper, or the various parts of the bodice pattern—the latter, perhaps, being the easiest.
