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 HOW TO MAKE COATS

The lower edge of the coat ought to be reinforced with strips of canvas cut to fit the coat about one inch wide. Place the canvas with the lower edge along the line where the coat will turn up and catch it to the coat, taking a stitch first on one side and then on the other. Roll the lower edge of the coat over the canvas and tack it to the canvas. (See Fig. 50.) Join sleeve seams, making open seams.

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Fig, (50) Cat stitching the canvas to the lower edge of the coat

A coat sleeve is usually two piece and there is fullness in the upper piece at the elbow. Shrink out some of this fullness. Stay the lower edge of the sleeve as the lower edge of the coat was stayed. Then turn up the lower edge of the sleeve and catch it to the canvas as shown in Fig. 51.

Use the coat pattern as a guide in cutting the lining, allowing a pleat from top to bot-

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