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Worst tailored jacket in a long, long time...
Look at the middle of the side seams on the inside. They are not pressed open (they should be) like they are near the top and bottom. This suggests a bad alteration. I refuse to believe that any professional garment makers would have allowed that back to pass quality control. On the fronts, all...- Qirrel
- Post #8
- Forum: Vintage Finds and Deals
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Worst tailored jacket in a long, long time...
The rest of the jacket looks good. The shoddy sewing of the belt may be the result of a badly done alteration by an incompetent homesewer.- Qirrel
- Post #5
- Forum: Vintage Finds and Deals
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Early Aquascutum tweed jacket
True, but I wouldn't trust any alterationist not to simply cut off the excess. Especially if shortening from 27" to 24", which is (only slightly) easier if you cut an inch or two off.- Qirrel
- Post #10
- Forum: Vintage Finds and Deals
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Show us your British suits
I find the pocket quite useful for coins, but only when not wearing a vest or jacket. On a three piece suit I don't think it adds any value at all, I agree with BK that it doesn't look that good, especially when there is a vest involved. Besides, I would have had trouble filling all the pockets... -
Show us your British suits
According to wiktionary they have different etymologies: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fob Apparently the noun fob comes from fuppen: a pocket, and the verb from foppen: to mock. -
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Show us your British suits
True that fob once meant simply "a pocket", but I think you would have to go quite far back in time for that. My dictionaries define fob as either a watch pocket, a ribbon (such as the one above) for easy access to the pocket watch, or an ornament attached to the watch chain. Which is quite... -
Show us your British suits
And here is an example of the fob pocket (complete with fob) on a pair of 30s Burton trousers: -
Show us your British suits
I would call that a coin pocket; that is what they are called in 30s tailoring books as well. (I.e. the large flapped ones; the watch pocket is described as small and worked like a welt or a slit. -
1950 German Mag.: Textil-Woche Maunufakturist
Then again it seems all fashion designers went mad in the 1920s, like they did in the 1970s. I don't much like late 40s and 50s German fashions at all. There was too much of this: -
German & Austrian Hutmachers
It is a 58 (my size!). Here are the labels. The top one is the retailers label. After some surgery (this is where my stamp collecting experience comes in handy) the bottom label is revealed. It looks like a special label for export, as it is written in English. -
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German & Austrian Hutmachers
Indeed. I was quite thrilled when I found it. -
Incredible HOLY GRAIL German 1930s Sportcoat
Jackets in Germany did get more ease in during the late 40s and all through the 50s, but it is hard to differentiate between a 30s jacket which is too large and a 50s jacket which is too small. (Too small and too large as in tighter or looser than intended for the original wearer.) -
German & Austrian Hutmachers
Found this recently, together with two very old looking royal stetsons, made by Hutfabrikanten Halban und Damask, Wien: -
Nice 1940s suit Size 36
I did. Perhaps now I will be fine for another few weeks before ebay withdrawal symptoms show up again. I'm surprised it didn't sell until now. Was it always listed at $10?- Qirrel
- Post #9
- Forum: Vintage Finds and Deals
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The Vintage Tailoring Thread
Thats right. When the crooked cut is labeled obsolete, they mean the crooked cut as in one which is too crooked for the figure in question. (stooping or erect, etc.) The thing is that modern suiting cloths are too lightweight or in weaves which makes it impossible to be able to do the amount... -
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The Vintage Tailoring Thread
I plan to remove most of the wadding from the shoulder pads and reuse them. -
The Vintage Tailoring Thread
You might have read Mahon's explanation of the crooked/straight jacket. It is, at best, misleading. There are some good explanations here: (although a bit heavy) http://thelondonlounge.net/gl/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=272&start=30 Read the post by schneidergott and sator... -
The Vintage Tailoring Thread
Here we are at the actual re-cutting stage: I baste shut the pockets and then steamed the hell out of all the pieces to remove any ironwork or shaping still left in them. Then I recut and marked all the pieces, and started making a new canvas for the fronts. I could have left the fronts... -
The Vintage Tailoring Thread
Not too long ago I bought a suit which had no trousers. Since it is from the 1960s, I probably wouldn't have got a whole lot for it if I sold it on ebay, so I decided instead to rip it up and recut it to fit me. This is what the jacket looked like when I bought it: Peeling away the... -
