If you sew, here's some sage advice from the 1949 Singer Sewing Manuel!

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88. I don't know how often (or if they even do) recycle pattern numbers

But I've made 15 vests with Simplicity 2346. I add 3 inches in length to it as well because my body type is not the kind that can pull off a short, tight vest like what the kid on the cover of the packet is wearing. This one is nice because it comes with the pieces necessary to put some straps on the back to tighten it if you need to. I also add seven pockets onto it. The examples only shows two wide ones on the bottom part of the front, but if you take the piece for those pockets and take off an inch in width and add an inch in height, you can make some nice breast area pockets, which I put on both the outside and inside. The 7th pocket is a little horizontal pocket on the inner edge of one of the front pieces between two buttons that I put a magic tool called a thumb tip in. I can easily jam my thumb into it and pull it out without looking suspicious. Your husband won't need that.

What's the secret to making a vest reversible?

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