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Show Neat Hems. It In often difficult to make n neat looking hem on a skirt or coat mndo of very thick cloth, for unless it can be pressed very flat 'with a heavy iron, and sometimes even then, there will be an unsightly hump' or bulge nt.the-pqlnt nt.the-pqlnt "where the material Is turned In at tho top of the hem nfld pitched. A good plan to follow -when ' using thick jnaterfal for; a garment is to turn up the hem perfectly flat without tuui-ing tuui-ing in the top edge in tho usual way: then baste a piece of tape tUo color of the material, or If the color cannot bo mntched use blnek on dark material and wlillo oo light matorlal over the raw edge of tho hem and stitch It in place on bnth "the upper and lower edges. r , , , Ily basting tho tape in plapp the-stitchlng the-stitchlng can be dono on the right side of tho material. " uslne the basting thread as a guide! In, case of a wide hem whore tho material ma-terial has to be laid in little plait at the top It enn bo made tor He flat by ' slashing the hem down from tho top for an Inch, then lapping the, material over, thus mabiug only two thicknesses of material instead of three, ns would be the case with a plait. Silk seam binding can be used Instead In-stead of tape If you desire, but tiia doe aotjWeariLweJi as tape aiitHril have to Wri)k'ci4 wkta v m |