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Weight AND Drape OF FABRICS

Let’s start with the soft drape of fabrics. If you have a pattern that needs a fabric with soft drape it will be a pattern like Vogue V1302. The fabric suggestions could be silk chameuse, silk crepe de chine, or even stretch jersey. The best thing to do is take the piece of fabric you have found to a mirror and drape one corner up to your shoulder and see that it drapes over to the hip, like Vogue V1302, or the way the picture on

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