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What is a pleat?

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a pleat is a fold of fab in order to reduce the "free fab" or "volume of fab" and to make it shaped to the body or wanted shape.
you can make a pleat in a variety ways as:
meeting pleats, chasing pleats or single left/ right pleat, ironed pleats or top stitched pleat... and more

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