jacket-to-sheriffmuir conversion

**piperdbh** · 21st February 10, 01:45 PM

This has probably been covered already, but what kind of jacket would be easiest to convert into a Sheriffmuir doublet? I'm thinking a Nehru jacket, like this:

It seems like all one would have to do would be to cut back the sides of the jacket, to produce the open curve of the Sheriffmuir, fix up the cuffs, and add the tashes, thusly:

What say ye?

**Hothir Ethelnor** · 21st February 10, 03:27 PM

Why don't you just shorten the Nehru jacket and wear it as your own style?

**Mael Coluim** · 21st February 10, 03:41 PM

Nehru jacket?!? Are those things still around. Let me go check the back of closet. . . . maybe its near those cuffed bell bottoms . . .

**JamieKerr** · 21st February 10, 06:20 PM

Yes they are! I wear them for work very regularly!

**thescot** · 21st February 10, 06:40 PM

A USMC officer's mess dress jacet is very close.

**fluter** · 21st February 10, 08:30 PM

The Monkeysuits Ebay store has a batch of 5-button mandarin/Nehru collar jackets, ex-rental, for about $37 plus shipping.

I have one, but the conversion is somewhere down in my queue behind work and income tax records.

I'll report back, when and if.

Probably I won't try to add the tashes and tail. The buttons are functional, so i'll either have to keep the buttonholes and the cut of the front, or be a little creative. It's a tad big on me, so might be able to chop it back, or taper at the side seam.

piperdbh that first photo you linked looks like it'd be a winner!

**MacLowlife** · 21st February 10, 08:48 PM

I vote for taking in the side seams and/ or just chopping it off. It would be a shame to waste all of those buttonholes. Just be sure to leave a pocket for the Austin Powers Swedish pump...

**MacMillan of Rathdown** · 23rd February 10, 08:22 AM

I think you may have a problem with the pockets of the Nehru jacket you've shown us. It looks to me as if the hem of the skirt of the proposed jacket will fall about 1-2 inches below the mouth of the pocket...

**Phil** · 23rd February 10, 10:02 AM

Originally Posted by MacMillan of Rathdown

I think you may have a problem with the pockets of the Nehru jacket you've shown us. It looks to me as if the hem of the skirt of the proposed jacket will fall about 1-2 inches below the mouth of the pocket...

Good point MOR and in fact it is something that always looks "not quite right" about converted jackets as the original proportions will have been different. My sheriffmuir doesn't have any external pockets, only internal breast pockets.

**MacMillan of Rathdown** · 23rd February 10, 10:20 AM

Echoing what Phil has pointed out, the most successful conversion I have seen used the off cut of the jacket to make patch pockets which placed the top of the pocket up where it should be, thus preserving the proportions of the jacket.