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Feraud

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Made a belt for this vintage dress belt buckle
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And this tool bag for my brother's Harley.
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The bag is hand stitched.
 

Nick D

Call Me a Cab
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I'm working on a new three piece suit. It will be in brown wool (lighter weight than I'd like but I have to use what's available). Trousers and waistcoat from '40s patterns, the jacket will be a double breasted from a '40s Weldon reproduction new from EvaDress. Three patch pockets, I'll add a belt and center pleat to the back and pleat the pockets if I have enough fabric.

I'm doing a series on my tumblr blog on making the suit, right now I'm finishing up the trousers.

Part One
http://vestisferrea.tumblr.com/post/66432855942/tailoring-a-vintage-inspired-suit-part-one

Part Two
http://vestisferrea.tumblr.com/post/68818289661/tailoring-a-vintage-inspired-suit-part-two

Part Three
http://vestisferrea.tumblr.com/post/68821017411/tailoring-a-vintage-inspired-suit-part-three

I'll post finished work here as well, but progress and construction photos will be on tumblr.
 

Annixter

Practically Family
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Up Yonder
I'm working on a new three piece suit.

Great writeup and start, Nick. I look forward to following your progress.

I am itching to progress as a self-taught "tailor," but I can't seem to find the time lately. About 3 years ago, I started off mending stitches on clothes, then hemming trousers and sleeves by hand, and after years of that I finally purchased a basic sewing machine which saves amazing amounts of time. I've taken in shirt sides and let out the waist on one pair of trousers so far, but that's as advanced as I've gotten. I actually purchased a 40's trouser pattern from EvaDress and a short-sleeve 50's-style shirt pattern elsewhere along with Coffin's Shirtmaking book, but the tasks seem overwhelmingly daunting with my limited experience. I've been told that trousers are the first place to start off making garments from scratch, so maybe one day that will happen.
 

Shangas

I'll Lock Up
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Melbourne, Australia
Feraud, I love the black leather bag you made. I wish I could work with leather, but it's so expensive over here. You wouldn't think so, since Australia eat so much beef, but...*sigh*
 

Nick D

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Upper Michigan
The '40s EvaDress pattern was my go-to pattern for quite a while. I started this thread with the EvaDress '30s trousers, which were not my first garment but my first attempt at vintage menswear. I have made a lot of trousers, each one is a little better than the last.

I just got a new shirt pattern from 1936, it's collar attached but I'll use it for detachable as well. I also have Coffin's shirtmaking book, and his trouser making book. One bit of advice re. the shirt book, he says you need a special presserfoot for making flat felled seams, but you do not. When I read that I had never made a mens shirt before and bought one, but I was never able to make felled seams as well with it as without.
 

Nick D

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Home sewing patterns are drafted so that there doesn't have to be any manipulation with the iron. It doesn't mean you can't, but it isn't necessary and even in the '30s and '40s I think they assumed the home sewer wouldn't. In David Page Coffin's Making Trousers he discusses shaping a little at the end, as a potential refining technique, but the rest of the book assumes no shaping.
 

Methuselah

One of the Regulars
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Home sewing patterns are drafted so that there doesn't have to be any manipulation with the iron. It doesn't mean you can't, but it isn't necessary and even in the '30s and '40s I think they assumed the home sewer wouldn't. In David Page Coffin's Making Trousers he discusses shaping a little at the end, as a potential refining technique, but the rest of the book assumes no shaping.

Thanks for the clarification. I think an EvaDress pattern may be an early Christmas present to myself.
 

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