Worst tailored jacket in a long, long time...

[Mario]

http://www.ebay.de/itm/221096584930?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

This jacket looks like a compendium of synonyms for words like wonky, askew, awry and the like.

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[Two Types]

I also saw that jacket on Ebay. The belt is so bad it looks like I made it. As soon as I saw the lapels I thought it was a 1970s jacket.

 

[Rudie]

Maybe it was made for someone with severe scoliosis?

 

[herringbonekid]

they did a pretty good job of matching the checks on the breast pocket... makes one wonder how they matched the back so badly.

 

[Qirrel]

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.

 

[Edward]

Shame, as the fabric is lovely and the design I think is nice.

Hmmnnn.... Could this be a first effort by someone working from this pattern, or a period equivalent?:

http://www.evadress.com/4972PR.html

May well be true vintage - I'm sure there were home-sewers back in the day who made their own clothes for financial or other reasons, and may or may not have been gifted at tailoring....

 

[Baron Kurtz]

There' no doubt about the age of the garment, or the professional manufacture - it is Townclad, after all. The work's just a bit, well, crap.

 

[Qirrel]

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 the edges are swelled with a consistent 1/4" (or thereabouts) stitch, certainly made with a 1/4" seam foot. The back belt looks like it was finished in a hurry with a regular sewing machine, without any care for neatness or consistency.

 

[Two Types]

LI refuse to believe that any professional garment makers would have allowed that back to pass quality control.

Maybe it didn't pass quality control - meaning it sat in a box in a factory for many, many years, until it was finally found and sold on. Thus, maybe the reason it survived was because the work was so bad.

 

[herringbonekid]

i don't think it's been altered. the whole back is wonky, not just the belt; look at the upper back along the shoulder yoke edge... it's been cut out on the wonk.

 

[Mario]

My first thought was that the jacket has been (very sloppily) altered but as HBK pointed out: not one part really goes together with another. For one reason or another that whole thing has been very badly crafted right from the start.

 

[Mario]

With all that soppy tailoring the jacket nonetheless sold for a whopping $248.50... :eeek:

 

[Mario]

*sloppy*

 

[Chasseur]

Yes I was somewhat surprised by that...

 

[Mario]

I'm wondering if the buyer will be surprised if he sees the jacket in person...