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pieces according to the width of your material. Follow the plan of placing the largest pieces on the goods first and then fitting in the smaller pieces.

Making a Coat Shirt: About the best advise I can give is the general statement that I have made before. Do as much of the finishing as you can while the pieces are flat,

Fig. (4) The shirt pattern arranged for cutting

that is before the seams are closed. It will facilitate the work, to face the front closings first. There are two ways of doing this.

You can cut a facing of the material, hem the back edge and join this to the edge of the shirt as shown in Fig. 5. In this case, after the facing is turned into its finished position and pressed in shape, stitch along the front edge of the shirt about one-eighth of an inch from the edge. Also, at the bottom of the facing stitch from the edge of the shirt to the

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