Step 14

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To introduce a moderate amount of flare, one cuts the paper pattern from the bottom to where the hip line meets the edge and swivels these pieces out. The amount swivelled out determines the amount of flare. Note that there are fourteen opportunities for introducing flare, since these pieces are all doubled. Therefore even a small amount of flare introduced in any one seam will introduce quite a lot of flare into the final garment. I've made two dress variants from this process, one with a relatively modest amount of flare introduced by swiveling these pieces out about 2 to 3 cm (1" to 1-1/2"), and one introducing a great deal more flare (see next Figures 15 and 16).

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