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Posted on: 7/10/18 2:01 PM ET
I used plastic tape stuff and it came out okay, but it sure was a bear to get it done.

What is the easiest way?

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Posted on: 7/10/18 2:14 PM ET
a strip of Lightweight fusible interfacing
  
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Posted on: 7/10/18 2:22 PM ET
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Twill tape, a piece of selvage from woven fabric, and/or a taping foot or a presser foot with a taping slot in it to guide the tape under the needle.
  
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Posted on: 7/10/18 3:28 PM ET
I like the interfacing best, it's easy and the sheer weight or fusible tricot do a good job along with topstitching.
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Posted on: 7/10/18 3:48 PM ET
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If you take a look at better men's t-shirts, you'll usually find there is a twill tape running from one shoulder seam to the other, right across the back neck. Here's why (stolen from Kathleen Fasanella's Fashion-Incubator.com: https://fashion-incubator.com/pop-quiz-designing-a-t-shirt-sewing-cell-pt-2/
Quin’s comment was interesting with respect to the taping and double needling in that it reminded me that the customer may not have been aware how this is typically done. As I recall, the customer described taping the shoulder seams as two separate steps but ideally, this is one operation. If you survey shirts in your wardrobe, most shirts with taped seams have the tape beginning at one shoulder, curving around the back neck and then onto the other shoulder seam in one pass. While this might cost tenths of a penny more in extra tape, it takes less time in sewing if only due to the reduction of time in handling and aligning the separate work pieces. If it is done separately (excluding the back neck), the taping of the shoulder seams would be done before the ribbing is joined to the neckline. Additionally, I think sewing the tape to the shoulders and back neckline make for a sturdier product.
  
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Posted on: 7/10/18 8:11 PM ET
You always save selvedges from silk organza. I always keep a yard for things like welts, bound buttonholes, etc. it is so strong yet thin, stitches well without adding bulk. Those selvedges are sewing room gold for shoulder seams and anything else you need reinforce.
  
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Posted on: 7/10/18 9:34 PM ET
I like fusible tricot interfacing, it comes in black and white and you can cut the strips stable, stretchy or bias depending on the direction you cut, I also use it to stabilize waists in knit bodices and crossover neckline edges

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