How To Make A Tailcoat From A Jacket

Material: Suit Coat Piece of Chalk Pulling Pins and/or Needle & Thread Safety Clip or Fabric Glue Read: how to make a vest Step I: Find a Jacket Finding a free or cheap jacket is pretty easy. Before you go buy one, ask your parents, friends, and family if they have any seats around that you might have. Usually, relatives will have a lot of them, so sift through what they have to find a friend you like. If you’re unlucky to get a free jacket, check out thrift stores, ideally Salvation Army or, if not, Goodwill. If there are no products available in your area, check with a local charity or religious center, tag a sale, flea market, or consignment store. Sites like topqa.info can also offer inexpensive jackets, as well as other items of interest, but they’re generally not as cheap as thrift stores. Ideally, the average coat you buy should cost between $1 and $10, nothing more, unless you want to buy something more expensive. Step II: Choose a jacket Choosing a jacket is also easy, and your primary concern is whether your jacket is comfortable and looks the way you like it; though keep in mind that you can always change or customize the colors of the shirt and buttons. Make sure it fits comfortably over the shoulder and that the top two buttons can be closed comfortably; we won’t be using any other buttons below the top two, so just worry about those. The jacket should have an intact lining, as this will make the transition easier, although this is not required. you do this before you start cutting. You can even give the jacket an unpleasant look just by bleaching parts of it, but this should be done again before starting to cut. Be careful to test any dye or bleach on a small portion of your jacket before you do the whole thing, as different chemicals and fabrics will react in different and often unpredictable ways. be together. Step III: Measure the coat For measurement, you’ll want to wear the jacket with the buttons closed, as variation will depend on how it sits on you. Use a piece of chalk to mark and draw a line across the jacket at about navel level. This line should extend from arm to arm or about the edges of your hips. Next, draw a straight line down the sides. These will be your cuts. If you draw a curve or need to re-measure, you can brush off the chalk lines and redraw. Step IV: Cut Before cutting, you need to loosen the liner at the beginning of the cut. Using a seam cutter or sharp knife, break up the seams below the cut. Don’t worry if you cut the seam too high, but try not to break any seams above the cut if possible. Now you can start cutting. Carefully cut along your chalk line, creating a picture-in-picture. If you want to make sure the two sides of the jacket are symmetrical, simply cut one side as usual, then fold the shirt and use the cut side to guide the chalk to mark the second side. Make sure not to cut the lining at all; that will be handled later. Read more: How to trick pokemon into thinking you’re walking Step V: Lining Now that you’re done cutting, take the uncut lining and tuck it inside the shirt. If it’s too long to be easily lifted, you can trim it a bit. The point of the double liner is to help secure the new seam later. Using staples to secure the fabric, sew a new line at the edge of the lining and shirt. If you don’t want to sew, you can use fabric glue instead to fix the hem and create an effective glue. If you use this second technique, make sure the glue doesn’t stick to any material that you don’t want to stick to the shirt. Be aware that a glued border will not hold as well as a stitch. Alternatively, for a more distressed look, replace the sewing safety pins, though be aware that this will equate to gluing in terms of stability. Step VI: Finishing Now that your lining is set, you have the choice of giving the jacket a dull look, or giving it a more formal and polished look. To damage a jacket, simply leave the cut edges of the jacket intact and let them fray as they wear out. For a more polished look, fold the hem as small as possible and sew or glue it in place as you did with the lining. During this process, please try on the jacket to make sure it looks the way you want. To create wider or narrower tails, feel free to trim or fold the fur tails until you have the width and angle you want. Sew or glue the hem only after you’ve made sure you like how everything looks. With that, you’re done. Enjoy your new tail coat and customize it as you see fit. Evelyn is known to be able to fix anything in 5 minutes with just safety pins and duct tape, and has a knack for making it look a million times better than before. If you want to read her random thoughts, please check out her twitter, topqa.info/jaborwhalky.