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top and keep the pieces together at the bottom.

If you want to add a pleat, mark where the pleat will come on the pattern. the pleat just this width in a piece of plain paper. Lay the pattern on the paper with the markings for the pleat directly over the pleat. (See Fig. 98.) Mark around the outside of the pattern. If you cut on these markings it will give you a pattern with the pleat allowance in it.

Fig. (98) Adding a tuck to the front of a waist

Often it is desirable to take out some or all of the fullness at the lower edge of a waist

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