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Alexandra ReynoldsExcuse my absence, been inundated with network issues and a dental procedure, as late. As I touched on last week, it's often a better garment when cut on the bias versus the straight of grain. This week, I demonstrate this in my improvement of a Big Four pattern, namely Vogue 8191 (OOP). I cut the top front on the bias in two pieces, versus the one piece to avoid undesired asymmetry. Many may already know one side of a bias cut garment behaves differently than its opposite side. Here, the armholes would have draped differently with the bodice cut in...