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 A COMPLETE COURSE IN DRESSMAKING

vas side toward you. Hold the tape taut and ease the coat to it as you go along. Unless the coat is held in to the canvas it is sure to stretch. This will cause it to spread apart when it is un¬ buttoned after it is finished. Use the pattern for the front section to cut the cloth facing for the front of the coat. Lay the cloth facing on the right side of the coat with the front edges match¬ ing and stitch down the front and across the bottom a seam’s width back from the Fig. (48) The front taped and the same. Then trim the cloth facing stitched tn place edge, CUt the corner diagonally and turn the facing onto the wrong side, turning the raw edges of the seams onto the wrong side of [36]