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A fabric material for use as an elastic waistband for garments and primarily for the home repair of garments. The material consists of factory-prepared lengths of narrow fabrics having stretchable elastic bands, of less width than the fabric, secured adjacent a margin of the fabric by lines of stitches of a character to preserve the stretch characteristics of the band. In the method of employing the material, as in the repairing of a garment having a defective waistband, the original waistband is severed from the remainder of the garment and a free margin of the length of material is sewn to the margin of the remainder of the garment defined by the severed edge. This requires only the stitching of cloth to cloth thus avoiding the sewing of an elastic band to cloth, an operation which the usual home sewing machine is not equipped to perform. The fabric material may also be employed in the home construction of new garments and may be supplied with, or without, other materials in the form of a kit.
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