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There is tucking at the waist giving this piece a feminine silhouette

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The pattern does gently tell you, sew zipper by hand, if preferred. For the record, I am very fast at hand sewing in zippers, because for years, I preferred it to arguing with my White sewing machines wobbly zipper foot