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 is cut, your best plan is to turn the hems on the back closing first. Turn, press well and stitch the hems as shown in Fig. 46, but do not stitch all the way to the bottom. Leave the edges of the hems loose for about six inches. These edges are stitched better after the hem at the lower edge of the frock is turned.

Bind the raw edges at the shoulder and in joining make an open seam. Stay neck, stitching around it to prevent stretching. Line the collar and face the collar to the neck.

Figure 47 shows the pleats laid in at the underarm. Bind the edges and make open seam here, too.

If there is a dart in the back of the sleeve, close the dart, bind the raw edges on the wrong side of the sleeve and stitch the second time, running the stitching one-eighth of an inch from the joining on the right side of the sleeve. Bind the raw edges at the sides of the sleeve and make an open seam, just as the shoulder seam was finished. Turn the hem at the bottom of the sleeve.

If sleeve seam is at front of armhole, turn dress wrong side [ 39 ]