[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
am not sure if I understand your problem,
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I thought he meant the waistcoat!
That will teach me to read the headers as well as the questions!!
Suzi
but this style of coat
was never intended to close using the buttons and buttonholes. It is
quite likely in fact, that the buttonholes are not even slit open. On
an original coat of this style there would be a couple of hooks and
loops high on the chest, and the coat would meet when these were
fastened, not overlap.
A great tip I learned on "Last of the Mohicans" was, when you have a curved
front that doesn't close, like in "Mohicans" which is 1750s, or one that is
more curved and butts up together at CF, like you find later in
the century...
In the seam allowance just shy of where it is to be finished, run a couple
of rows of gathering threads along the length [3"-5"] of
the outermost part of
the curve and ease it up ever so slightly. Stabilize the eased part by
basting it to a 1/4" piece of twill tape right where the
finished edge will be.
Then finish it up as you ordinarily would....easing the lining too.
If you do it right, you cannot see any of the ease and the curved edge will
lay flat and not stick out away from the chest any.
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