Patterns

[Trewindle]

Hello all,
I'm very passionate about Edwardian era formalwear, and a good friend is interested in making a shirt/waistcoat/bowtie for me. The only issue is I live in New Zealand and paper patterns for these things are virtually non-existent, since most of this stuff came out from England. Can anyone point me in the right direction? For the waistcoat at least I thought that a pattern could be made using an existing waistcoat then altering the cut on paper?

 

[Flat Foot Floey]

I don't know much about victorian/edwadian stuff but there is a sponsor of the FL who sells pattern: http://store.reconstructinghistory.com/historic-patterns/victorian-en/mens.html

For changing a modern waistcoat pattern: yes it would work. the waistcoat would be shorter and button up much higher.
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