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For the setting-in of the sleeves and for the placement of the shoulder pads, follow the same techniques as you would for a fabric garment. Pin sleeve in armhole, matching underarm seams and center of sleeve with shoulder seam. Try it on. Make the necessary adjustments. Then baste and backstitch. Try it once more for the placement of the shoulder pads which varies with each person.

Sew collar, edge to edge, around neck edge, using a whipstitch to avoid all thicknesses when turned back over garment.

Sew on pockets by first making their outline with a thread in the contrasting color. Mark the horizontal lines by sewing this thread all along one row; and the vertical lines by sewing up along the same stitch. Base in place, then sew using backstitches, and following the base of the corded edging row. This will give more relief to the edging.

Before sewing on the buttons, place the blazer flat on a table, lap the garment edges, matching center front, and checking so the lower edge of the fronts line up correctly.

To keep the collar and the lapels well in place, run a few stitches through the seam that joins the collar to the lapel inserting threaded needle through both thicknesses.

The corded edging stitch is the last little detail which will give this blazer its chic. Be sure to work it tightly so that the edges will keep their shape.