Laurel HoffmannPART 2: SEWING THE SKIRT
 
  Many people know that the industry sets zippers without pinning.

But few people know that:

1. Pinning makes zipper sets more difficult to sew.

2. In the industry, even in inexpensive clothing, zippers must be set so that the zipper closes the garment precisely on its seam line.

Sewing Pants and Skirts shows exactly how, step-by-step, industrial high-end designing departments sew zippers into garments so that the exact seam closure is maintained.

In this diagram from Chapter 8: Setting the Lapped, Hand- pricked Zipper, the reader is shown how to use pinning - please note that only two pins are used - until she has mastered the techniques needed to set this zipper correctly. Once learned, this zipper can be professionally set, without pins, in only a few minutes.

Setting the Lapped, Hand- pricked Zipper, the reader is shown how to use pinning.