For
@Iminei @Efemera and anyone else who's interested.
I was asked to make two waistcoats larger by 5 inches
Now, there's not many options to do this. I don't have a magic wand and I'm not going to go out and buy the customer the correct size, so when I'm asked to do this I usually put some strips of near-enough colour, lining fabric in the sides to widen them. Gaining five inches is rather a lot though. It will obviously make the armholes bigger too.
I assumed they would be regular style waistcoats with fabric fronts and lining backs. No. These have fabric front and back...and they're double-breasted.
You can guess how I gained some of the extra now can't you?
There's very little chance of finding some fabric to match...So, what I did was, I took the belt strap thingies off the back and used those. They were a little short so I pinched one of the pocket bags too to add on.
I used some nice quality lining fabric to replace the belts and I replaced the pocket with some near-enough colour fabric too.
I don't have any 'before' pictures. I just quickly snapped these this morning before they're taken away.
I got just about two inches in each side seam from the belts, so moved the front buttons over accordingly to gain the missing inch or so.
The instructions on the ticket tells me to put black strips in the sides if I can't find some fabric to match.
Sandra.
xxx