1930’s 1940’s AQUA GREEN Sport Coat Suit Jacket

[DamianM]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-193...pt=Vintage_Men_s_Clothing&hash=item2329035163

 

[DamianM]

Its tooo smalll!!
Oh the humanity!!!!

 

[GoldenEraFan]

The arms are too darn short otherwise that's a real gem!

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Perfect size!

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

Live the fabric would make a nice cap.

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

That's Like not Live. Not seeing the edit function in the browser today.

 

[Flat Foot Floey]

The edit function is missing in the "finds and deals" for soem reason. [huh]

I am totally in love with the fabric. What a color. Green is totally underrated in menswear nowadays.

 

[DamianM]

The edit function is missing in the "finds and deals" for soem reason. [huh]

I am totally in love with the fabric. What a color. Green is totally underrated in menswear nowadays.

That's true I just acquired a early 50s sports coat in a similar speckle material(Great mature green with white speckle) but more subdued ( not as crazy)
Im not sure but it seems also like a hard color to come by.

Ill post a pic soon.

 

[DamianM]

Live the fabric would make a nice cap.

Ha thats what i thought too.

See im thinking of turning some overcoats I have into more useful pieces like a cap or vest. I saw an early 50s gray one with in a very heavy loose weave wool with Cold blue speckle. I thought to my self..... that material would make a great cap! should I?

 

[herringbonekid]

I thought to my self..... that material would make a great cap! should I?

personally, i would only cut vintage clothing up for fabric if they are no longer wearable through moth damage etc.

or if they are 1970s.

 

[DamianM]

I don't do it often and yes only when there is moth damage or its just collecting dust because no one has interest in it.
I have done it to one overcoat that I tried selling on the bay and it didn't fit me.
The fabric is a great wool hounds tooth and now on its way to become a 4 patch pocket vest.
Overcoats are not hard to come by though and The fabrics are of the period for caps or vest.

 

[Fastuni]

Agree with HBK. Only "salvage" garments if they are beyond any (reasonable) repair. They are artifacts of history.

 

[DamianM]

They are I agree totally but is it so wrong?

I mean whos going to use vintage 40s boy slacks that are 26 inches at the waist?

and they are a great fabric enough to make a grown mans 40s cap

 

[Fastuni]

I have thought similarly in the past... but not anymore. There might always be someone who could fit in and even if not - as said, they are still irretrievable historical pieces that should IMO be esteemed higher than just as a source of fabric. They get rarer by the day and I think as much as possible should be preserved.

While everyone has to decide how much value he places in the (historical and collectable) value of a garment, to me any piece I would take apart (for pattern or fabric) has to fulfill all of the following criteria:

1) the type of garment has to be rather common (I would i.e. never consider taking apart a jacket like the aqua-green one)
2) be so badly damaged that it would be of no use otherwise,
3) have no other "collectable factor" like age, origin or maker.

And then I would differentiate between altering a garment into something similar (for example a long coat with damaged lower area is shortened to a short-coat, or a damaged double breasted coat becomes single breasted or a jacket with spots and holes receives some patch pockets...) and taking it apart entirely to make something entirely different.

 

[GoldenEraFan]

I have thought similarly in the past... but not anymore. There might always be someone who could fit in and even if not - as said, they are still irretrievable historical pieces that should IMO be esteemed higher than just as a source of fabric. They get rarer by the day and I think as much as possible should be preserved.

While everyone has to decide how much value he places in the (historical and collectable) value of a garment, to me any piece I would take apart (for pattern or fabric) has to fulfill all of the following criteria:

1) the type of garment has to be rather common (I would i.e. never consider taking apart a jacket like the aqua-green one)
2) be so badly damaged that it would be of no use otherwise,
3) have no other "collectable factor" like age, origin or maker.

And then I would differentiate between altering a garment into something similar (for example a long coat with damaged lower area is shortened to a short-coat, or a damaged double breasted coat becomes single breasted or a jacket with spots and holes receives some patch pockets...) and taking it apart entirely to make something entirely different.

+1

 

[DamianM]

I have thought similarly in the past... but not anymore. There might always be someone who could fit in and even if not - as said, they are still irretrievable historical pieces that should IMO be esteemed higher than just as a source of fabric. They get rarer by the day and I think as much as possible should be preserved.

While everyone has to decide how much value he places in the (historical and collectable) value of a garment, to me any piece I would take apart (for pattern or fabric) has to fulfill all of the following criteria:

1) the type of garment has to be rather common (I would i.e. never consider taking apart a jacket like the aqua-green one)
2) be so badly damaged that it would be of no use otherwise,
3) have no other "collectable factor" like age, origin or maker.

And then I would differentiate between altering a garment into something similar (for example a long coat with damaged lower area is shortened to a short-coat, or a damaged double breasted coat becomes single breasted or a jacket with spots and holes receives some patch pockets...) and taking it apart entirely to make something entirely different.

Well there is an abundance of late 50s overcoats with great fabrics.
There is an abundance as in every time i go to a thrift store i see 1 or two and nothing else...and I mean every time.
so that covers number 1.
Number 2, normally there not damaged but it goes with number 3. they don't seem to be that collectable unless its Flecked or prior to 1949.
If this was the case id have closets and storage units full of brown-gray late 50s overcoats.

 

[DamianM]

And I will never ever do that to a coat that cool. NEVER

 

[Burma Schave]

A German equivalent might be all those vintage green loden overcoats and horsehide overcoats that seem to be all over Europe's flea markets. The supply seems to far exceed the demand. If a German guy cut one or two of them up in order to make a cap or a gherkin, it wouldn't be a bad thing IMO.

 

[Two Types]

Here in the UK the question of remodelling/destroying good vintage clothing shouldn't really arise: quite simply there isn't enough good stuff. However, there are vast numbers of tweed jackets from the 1970s/1980s etc that look dreadful and aren't nicely lined etc. Finding one with a lovely tweed then cutting it up to make a cap might be an option but i would still worry about later generations who might curse me for ruining their chances of finding a 1970s Debenhams tweed jacket.
I always makes me think of my father telling me how in the early 1960s he was given an enormous and extremely heavy Edwardian tweed overcoat. My dad was a big bloke and the coat was too big for him. So he used it to cover the car engine overnight in winter! He could of used any old blanket for that - and packed the coat into a box ready for me to wear!