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Cut the facing

▪ Begin by cutting out the facing using your garment’s pattern. Lay the pattern piece for the facing on your facing
material and pin it in place. Cut out the facing.
1 Stabilize the fabric

▪ Make stay stitches around the neckline of your garment. Set your sewing machine to create very short,
straight stitches.
▪ Turn your garment inside out and sew around the front and back of the neckline, leaving a 1/2 inch (1.3 cm)
seam allowance as you sew.
2 Position the facing
▪ Flip your garment so the pattern faces out and lay it flat.
▪ Place the facing on the garment so the wrong side faces up. Align the raw edges of the facing with those of
the garment.
3 Sew the facing
▪ Sew the facing to the neckline using short, straight stitches. Start sewing from the bottom point of the V and
continue around the entire neckline.
4 Trim and notch
▪ To help the neckline lay flat, trim triangular notches along the seam allowance. These notches should be
about every 1 inch (2.5 cm) along the seam line.
5 Under stitch
▪ Unfold the garment and facing material so the pattern side faces up.
▪ Under stitch by sewing the seam allowances to the facing, about 1/8 inch away from the original stitching
line.
▪ Press the facing to the inside of the garment, and you’re done.
nt manufacturing. Except fabric of garment, the other materials are known as garment accessories. These have
to be chosen in such a way that they complement the outer fabric both aesthetically, in terms of decoration, and
practically, in terms of ensuring that the garment performs as expected in its intended end use.
▪ Functions of garments accessories

Accessories play a vital role in garment manufacturing. Accessories are used to serve different functions of a
garment. Some of the functions are given below:
1 Garments accessories sometimes act as a decorative material.

Fashion accessories
Accessories have great importance to make a complete garment. A garment is made not only from the apparel
fabric but also various accessory items. Fabric is the basic material in garment Accessories can make a garment
more suitable to wear.
2 Accessories are used to make the garments more flexible.
3 Accessories help to ensure the garment’s durability.
4 To fulfill customer demand different accessories are used.

Types of garment accessories
Various kinds of accessories are used on garments, some are part of the garments such as buttons, zippers,
interlining etc. while others are used for decorating and enhancing the product appearance such as sequins,
embroidery etc.
Note: Maximum we are confused about trimmings and accessories. Which are trimmings and which are
accessories? These are common questions. I have published two articles on it (those are given below). I think
those articles will clarify it.

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