Iverness coat pics

[mapsedge]

Finally found the camera cable and downloaded the coat pictures.


You can, of course, click on the thumbnail for a full sized image. (will open in a new window)

The coat, full view.
Cape Detail
Sleeve Detail. It's a vented placket, and what you can't see there is the mitred corner on the inside.
Inside, single-welt breast pocket.

Comments

[the-themiscyran.livejournal.com]

Ooooh! Now that's some pretty work. Did you draft the pattern, or work with something commercial?

[billthetailor.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I bought the pattern from James Country Mercantile in Liberty and scaled it up to fit the customer, as well as updating it to use modern tailoring techniques. Made a few other stylistic changes - the mitred sleeve vent, more fullness in the back, stuff like that.

[starwyse.livejournal.com]

wow.

That's very, very nice.

[billthetailor.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I'm very proud of it, wishing I had several yards of black wool stashed away so I could make my own.

How many

[starwyse.livejournal.com]

yards would need to stashed?

Re: How many

[billthetailor.livejournal.com]

To recreate this coat? Close to 10. For someone my size...maybe six or seven. I've got some in a box downstairs - I'd intended to make myself a suit at one point wayyyyy back when - but I'm not sure how much is there.

[rowangolightly.livejournal.com]

Wow....very, very nice! Thanks muchly for posting pictures. I'm so glad that worked out well for you.

OOOHHHH....

[heronmarkblade.livejournal.com]

I have always admired your work, and worn your work with pride (and comfort). This is really good stuff. Kudos.

P.S.-- I think the absolute favorite thing I love about all of your work is that it doesnt look hand-made. I know that sounds wierd, but the fact that your stuff looks like it comes from big name department stores is really, REALLY cool to me. Very professional, exact and meticulous. I hope the time arrives that I can afford both the cash and time to have a costume made by you. I guarantee I'll be the best dressed and probably most comfortable around.

Re: OOOHHHH....

[billthetailor.livejournal.com]

Well, first of all, thank you. The sort of look you describe is the sort of thing I've been striving for since I started making costumes almost twenty years ago, and it's very gratifying when it's noticed, a little humbling when it's commented upon. :)

Unfortunately, "hand made" has come to have a real bad connotation in ren garb, even though many times it's greatly deserved. I remember one booth in particular at the Des Moines faire where the shirts were so ill-fitting and badly built that I was embarassed for the product, and it wasn't even mine!

I guess that's what drives me. Thank you again.