The VERY BOUCLé jacket
Vogue V7975, Lined Jacket in two lengths with high round neckline.
Sewing level: Easy
Fabrics: Wool and wool blends, Tweeds, Bouclé, Gabardine and Midiumweight Linen.
Notions: Ribbon, Buttons, interfacing and lining fabrics.
We used bouclé fabric and silk brown lining.
The jacket is meant to be classic ànd for special occasions. Styling with a white blouse underneath makes the jacket look very sophisticated and formal. Wearing the jacket on a roll-neck black shirt makes the jacket look classic but casual as well.
Be carefull to use white threads; it probably shows too much. We used black threads for the outside and exactly the same color threads as the color of the lining for the lining and inside. Not an easy job but it looks best on the silk lining. Any darker color would not look very nice and lighter colors would look a bit cheap. On the bouclé fabrics, the threads colors looks best when they are one of the darkest colors of the woven threads.
Lining: keep it simple and classic. A uni-color brown crepe de Chine pure Silk.
Buttons: Metal gold Chanel-Style buttons
Buttonholes: Bound buttonholes. A lot of work but as the bouclé is very loose woven; it is the best options. Also do not forget to interface the buttonholes with a very firm interfacing. It is really needed otherwise the buttonholes will look sloppy and unstructured.
Fringes: We tore long strips of the silk lining fabric , these were 1.0 meters long and 6 inches wide. We did this every three, taking into account that they would become as flat as possible, so not too tight. The strips were not lined, small loose threads that are seen is not disturbing but rather beautiful. These long strips are put on by hand and especially with great attention to nicely fill the corners and accentuate the curves.
Pockets: Just fur pockets. Not fringed but bordered so that the lining can be seen, buttonholes and buttons.
Lining: We used an other method to seam the lining. The very loose woven fabric needed some extra support. We used the seeger to lock the seams and just hand-sewed it on the lining at the seams. It looks a bit less perfect than it should have been when we used the normal sewing technique, but it works well and sometimes it is better to focus on the total project on the details. It is not the sewing technique which has been used in Couture sewing. But if the fabric is really a challenge to handle; it might take some other approaches to get it done.
Sewing level: Easy
Fabrics: Wool and wool blends, Tweeds, Bouclé, Gabardine and Midiumweight Linen.
Notions: Ribbon, Buttons, interfacing and lining fabrics.
We used bouclé fabric and silk brown lining.
The jacket is meant to be classic ànd for special occasions. Styling with a white blouse underneath makes the jacket look very sophisticated and formal. Wearing the jacket on a roll-neck black shirt makes the jacket look classic but casual as well.
Be carefull to use white threads; it probably shows too much. We used black threads for the outside and exactly the same color threads as the color of the lining for the lining and inside. Not an easy job but it looks best on the silk lining. Any darker color would not look very nice and lighter colors would look a bit cheap. On the bouclé fabrics, the threads colors looks best when they are one of the darkest colors of the woven threads.
Lining: keep it simple and classic. A uni-color brown crepe de Chine pure Silk.
Buttons: Metal gold Chanel-Style buttons
Buttonholes: Bound buttonholes. A lot of work but as the bouclé is very loose woven; it is the best options. Also do not forget to interface the buttonholes with a very firm interfacing. It is really needed otherwise the buttonholes will look sloppy and unstructured.
Fringes: We tore long strips of the silk lining fabric , these were 1.0 meters long and 6 inches wide. We did this every three, taking into account that they would become as flat as possible, so not too tight. The strips were not lined, small loose threads that are seen is not disturbing but rather beautiful. These long strips are put on by hand and especially with great attention to nicely fill the corners and accentuate the curves.
Pockets: Just fur pockets. Not fringed but bordered so that the lining can be seen, buttonholes and buttons.
Lining: We used an other method to seam the lining. The very loose woven fabric needed some extra support. We used the seeger to lock the seams and just hand-sewed it on the lining at the seams. It looks a bit less perfect than it should have been when we used the normal sewing technique, but it works well and sometimes it is better to focus on the total project on the details. It is not the sewing technique which has been used in Couture sewing. But if the fabric is really a challenge to handle; it might take some other approaches to get it done.
The Very Bouclé Jacket: