A NEAT COMFORTABLE DAY OR NIGHT-CAP. PLATE 9. FIG. 20. This is a shape particularly suitable for day-caps for young servants, or night-caps for any age or station. If intended for day-caps, they should be made of clear or jaconet muslin; if for night-caps, of check or calico. The head-piece is a little sloped off at the ear from A to B, and is made up double, so as to be only 2 nails deep, when the cap is completed. ANOTHER CAP. This shape is very suitable for a servant's day or bonnet-cap; it is simple and pretty in appearance, and not expensive. In making it up, the band is doubled in half, the crown whipped and sewed to it, leaving it plain from A to B, for the space of 13 nail. A double border is sewn on in front. AN OLD WOMAN'S CAP. PLATE 9. FIG. 22, 23. This shape is generally preferred by old women, as it sets comfortably over the ears. It is almost impossible to cut out a number of these caps without a little waste. The head-pieces, when torn off, are 7 nails long, and 13 wide; double them in half their length, and then slope off from A to B, one nail. The straight part is the front, to which a border is sewed. The crown is next shaped, according to Fig. 23, for which purpose, double the piece in half its width, and from the corner, B, measure 7 nails on the side to A, and 1 nail on the bottom, to C, and cut off in a straight line from A to C. Round off the corner at the top, from A to D. The crown is sewed on plain for the space of 1 nail from the bottom, and then evenly fulled into the remainder of the head-piece. A POOR WOMAN'S NIGHT.CAP. This shape is sometimes made of linen, but generally of strong calico or check. SCALE. Best width of material............................ Length of head-piece down the selvage... Size of squares in which to cut out the circular crown, or two in the breadth... Yds. nls. 18 9 1층 9 3..15 7 The head-piece is sloped off, as in Fig. 24, from A, which is 11⁄2 nail above the corner, B, to C. The crown, after being rounded, is evenly fulled into the head-piece, which latter is sewed neatly together behind, at the opening, D C. ANOTHER CAP. This is a pretty shape for almost any purpose, and in any thin material; it is cut out in front very much in the same manner that a baby's cap is cut behind, which will be seen if the Plate is turned round, so as to place the doubled part, D, at the top. In making up the cap, sew neatly from A to B, and then full in the part from E to C, evenly to the part between C and B; a hem in the front and at the back, is next made for a ribbon or tape, and a small bow, either of the same material (see Fig. 17), or white or coloured ribbon may be put at B (Fig. 28). BATHING CAP. These are made of oil-silk, and are worn, when bathing, by ladies who have long hair. Cut a piece of oil-silk, 4 nails long and 8 nails wide; double it so as to make a square; let the doubled part be the back of the cap, and slope off the corner at the top, towards the back, in a curve, so as to shape it to the form of the back of the head. Sew up along the top of the bathing cap, binding it with tape at the seam, both at the top and in the front Lay on a tape behind to form a hem, making oylet-holes at the ears, and passing a string through each oylet-hole, which is fastened down at the opposite side ; these strings draw up the cap, when worn, to the size required. It is advisable, however, for those who have not long hair, to bathe in plain linen caps, so as to admit the water without the sand or grit, and thus the bather, unless prohibited on account of health, enjoys all the benefit of the shock without injuring the hair. These caps are often worn by children when the head is shaved, if subject to diseases in the head, as ring-worm, scald-head, &c. DRESSING-GOWNS. PLATE 10. Dressing-gowns are generally made of warm materials, for the winter, as flannels, either printed or plain, merino, shawl, either the real or imitation, and for gentlemen, of cloth or jean. For summer, they are of dimity, calico, twilled muslin, and sometimes, though rarely, of silk. There are various ways of making them; only a few of the most approved shapes will be here mentioned. PLATE 10. FIG. 1. A PLAIN USEFUL SHAPE, ESPECIALLY FOR MEN. This gown is made with a deep hem turned up, and a strong piping at the top of it. It is divided into four, and the arm-holes left in the two front seams, sloping the flannel 1 nail deep, and 2 nails long, for the shoulders. The neck-gusset is put in double, and the shoulder-strap laid over it. The gown must be neatly plaited behind and in front, set firmly into the double collar, and stitched with strong thread near the edge. Some people pipe every seam of a dressing gown with white or coloured muslin, linen, or glazed calico. The back is drawn up by means of a string-case, over which a band should button. A large button is put on the band, and on the collar, and the button-holes should be |