Our author has drawn attention, in his light and charming way, to a difficulty which is practically insuperable; there is nothing new in this suggestion of decorating each pleat with a separate subject, or of a consecutive series of subjects.
Then lay a pleat from A to B on either side, tapering to form a loose fit below the waist.
Lay a box-pleat at A-B and sew them to the hood at C-D, so that they will stand out and forward.
The flat frontpleat was occasionally embroidered, and gradually widened to the bottom of the skirt.
A wide pleat or two came from the shoulders down the front sometimes as a continuation of the sack-back.
Pleat about half of the fresh under sheet lengthwise, and place close to the soiled sheets.
The flowing sleeves and the pleat from the shoulder gave her dignity, she was certain; and she had done her hair beautifully.
And she did hope that pleat from the neck would look all right.
In these cases the box-pleat falls in the middle, and the curve must necessarily have been considerably smaller, since the upper edge lies much higher up towards the neck.
The Caryatid of the Cnidian Treasury at Delphi has the girdle clearly represented below the box-pleat by two parallel, horizontal, incised lines.
The rest of the cloak, passing under the left arm, hangs in a series of oblique but almost vertical folds, running parallel to a box-pleat which starts from the shoulder.
The garment with the Watteau pleat is not unlike the princesse gown which is a very trying style except to handsomely proportioned women.
The full, ugly, straight pleat that falls to just below the waist-line lends neither grace nor style to the figure.
Begin with the three small petals, pleat them at the bottom into as small a space as possible, and sew to the center with the wrong side to the center.
If the pleats are to be one-half inch deep, the box pleatwill be one inch across.
Pleat them very close at the center, sew together, finish the single petal the same and add it to the four petals.
The first row would be placed near the outside edge of the buckram and each pleat sewed as it is laid.
Be very accurate, being careful to keep the box pleat the exact width desired.
The little difference here, however, is that instead of gathering the material, you pleat it.
Now pleat your border strip so that the pin comes just on the corner.
Pleat the longest piece into the neck of the dress, and one short piece into each cuff.
I felt the mockery of her eyes; wherefore I took a sudden great gulp of tea, and came near choking, while Charmian began to pleat another fold in the tablecloth.
Here there ensued a pause, during which Charmian began to pleat a fold in the tablecloth.
Pin to the band and overhand, taking a stitch for each pleat of the gathers.
Make a tiny pleat in the tape at each corner so that when doubled over it will round the corners smoothly.
Stitch with an eighth of an inch seam, which will render unavoidable a small pleat at the end of the opening the width of the seam.
Then take an iron and pleat the whole apron from top to bottom in half-inch pleats, using the stitched pleats of the bib as a guide.
At the back of the apron, that is the end unhemmed, make three pleats—one box pleat in the centre and two outward turning ones on either side of the centre pleat.
Before cutting this out, a box-pleat an inch and a half wide should be laid down the middle of the front, and a side pleat three-fourths of an inch wide on either side of the placket in the back.
