For all of the vest body (and hem facing) pieces, cut two of your body fabric of choice (wool gabardine or cotton twill) and two of your underlining fabric of choice (we recommend muslin), so that each shell piece has an exact muslin counterpart.
(Yes, this doubles the number of pieces to cut, iron, and keep up with, but it will be well worth it; the underlining gives the garment more body, weight, dimension, and changes its drape ever-so-slightly.)
Iron all the pieces, then pair each body piece with its corresponding underlining piece.
Serge all of the body pieces to their underlining mates.
If you don't have a serger (and/or one is not reasonably available), you can also baste, stitch, or zig-zag stitch the two pieces together within the seam allowance; it's not ideal but it's something, at least!
Here, you can compare a body panel zig-zag stitched to its underlining mate to one serged to it:
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