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 A COMPLETE COURSE IN DRESSMAKING with machine stitching. (See Fig. 57.) Catch the rest of the canvas to the Fig. (57) Staying the Crescent stand of the collar with padcollar ding stitches as described in making collar for semi-fitted coat. Join the under collar to the coat. The cloth facings extend all the way around to the back of the neck. Join the center-back seam and press it open; then stitch the cloth facing to the coat at the outer edge of the collar, across the revers, down the front and across the bottom. Trim the seams and turn the facing onto the wrong side, rolling the raw edges of the seam onto the wrong side up the front to the roll of the revers. Clip the seam at this point. Around the revers and collar roll raw edges just under the edge. Turn the revers and collar into their finished position and pin the facing in place, being careful not to draw it too tightly across the roll of the revers. A tight facing will spoil the set of a coat. After the facing is basted in place press the coat. Stay the lower edge of the coat with canvas, just as semi-fitted coat was finished.

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