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About the Authors | |
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About Sewing Jackets | |
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A Little History | |
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What Makes it Tailored? | |
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Custom Tailoring Methods | |
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Today's Easier Tailoring Methods | |
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Why Learn Tailoring Techniques? | |
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Optimize Time, Sew an Outfit! | |
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Pattern Selection | |
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Select a Pattern with Good Lines for You! | |
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Choose an Attractive Jacket Length | |
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Easiest to Most Difficult Styles, Shapes and Details to Sew | |
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Fabrics | |
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Choose an Easy Fabric | |
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Sewing and Shaping Tips for Fashion Fabrics | |
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Organize your Stash | |
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Fashion Fabric Care Guide | |
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Seam Finishes | |
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Shaping Fabrics | |
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Terminology | |
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The Critical Issue: Interfacing | |
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Where to Interface | |
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Fusibles vs. Sew-ins | |
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How to Choose a Fusible Interfacing | |
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Sew-In Interfacings | |
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Lining | |
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Underlining | |
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Interlining | |
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Preshrinking and Care of Shaping Fabrics | |
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Common Questions About Fusibles | |
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Great Notions for Jacket Sewing | |
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Cutting and Marking Tools | |
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Sewing Tools | |
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Pressing and Seam Finishes | |
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Pressing Equipment | |
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How to Press | |
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Pressing Darts | |
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Pressing Seams | |
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Pressing Edges | |
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Make Sure It Will Fit | |
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Pattern Size | |
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Ease | |
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How to Fit a Pattern | |
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Tissue-fitting and Common Alterations | |
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Fitting as You Sew | |
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Fitting Jackets on Real People | |
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Marta | |
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Anastasia | |
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Laurie | |
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Sue | |
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Pati | |
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Cutting, Marking, and Interfacing | |
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"Turn-of-cloth" | |
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Why a Bias Undercollar? | |
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Change Collar Grain Line | |
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Straighten Fabric Grainline | |
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How to Test Fabrics for Shrinkage | |
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Cutting Layout | |
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Snip Marking | |
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Cutting Lining Without a Pattern | |
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Cutting, Fusing, and Marking Interfacing | |
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Jacket Front | |
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Tape the Roll Line | |
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Sew and Press Darts and Seams | |
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Patch Pockets | |
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Double-Welt Pockets | |
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Pocket Flaps | |
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Back and Under Collar | |
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Back Stay Interfacing | |
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Sew Back to Front | |
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Under Collar | |
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Sleeves, Shoulder Pads, and Chest Shaping | |
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One-piece VS Two-piece sleeves | |
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Easy Mitered Vent | |
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Setting in Sleeves | |
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Two Methods | |
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Sleeve Heads | |
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Sleeve Fit | |
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Shoulder Pads | |
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Chest Pieces | |
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Facing, Upper Collar, Lining, and Hems | |
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Quick-Lining | |
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Facing | |
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Upper Collar | |
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The Dot | |
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Sewing and Pressing the Outside Seam | |
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Hems and Jump Hems | |
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Bagging a Lining | |
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That "Tricky" Little Front Bit | |
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An Overview of Bagging | |
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The Important Reminders | |
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The Hem Dot | |
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Bag the Lining | |
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Finish the Sleeve Hem | |
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Do As We Say, Not As We Do | |
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Buttonholes | |
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Tips for Machine Buttonholes | |
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Sewing on Buttons | |
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Bound Buttonholes, Three Methods | |
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Triangular Buttonholes | |
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More Pockets | |
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Inseam | |
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Single-welt | |
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Creative Pocket Ideas | |
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Easy Mitered Back Vent | |
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Back Vent | |
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Goof-proof Back Vent in a Lining | |
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Finishing the Back Vent | |
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Finishing Touches | |
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Edgestitching | |
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Topstitching | |
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Bias Strips | |
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Piping | |
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Decorative Seams & Edge Finishes | |
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Pocket Lining as Hanky | |
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Tips That Will Improve All of Your Sewing | |
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Perfect Princess Seams | |
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Sew With Stable Side on Top | |
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Understitching | |
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Staystitching | |
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Patience and Memory Savers | |
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Two Left Sleeves? | |
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Plaids and Stripes | |
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Layout | |
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Cutting | |
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Sewing | |
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Men's Jackets | |
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Differences from Women's Tailoring | |
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Fabrics | |
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Front Chest Piece | |
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Sleeves | |
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Index | |
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