Decent Kilt jacket ?

[cavscout]

I buried this link in Matt's thread about a tweed jacket at old navy which could have potential to be altered to a kilt jacket.

http://www.oldnavy.com/browse/produc...283&pid=335691

Looking at the button placement I think this will work out very well.

[auld argonian]

I looked at those jackets at an Old Navy last week.

Good thing: patch pockets! You could conceivably just take them off and there goes the pocket placement problem.

Bad thing: what do you expect for the price? Definitely a CASUAL day jacket...if you're considering one, go to an Old Navy and look at them with a mind to finding one in your size that fits well and is put together well...the sizes are small. medium. large, ex-large and there's a lot of vaiation among jackets marked the same size. They look like they were throw in a box and shipped from wherever they came from so consider having it profesionally pressed...that might help it to look a little better.

I'm surfing the price and waiting to see if they mark them down in the next few weeks...while I was there I saw "last week's" jacket on the rack next to it marked down by 50%.

best

AA

[Colin]

Don't forget to check thrift stores in your area. You will be shocked at the amount of tweed jackets that show up from time to time. I recently found a very nice Harris tweed jacket that would have looked great altered, for $15. Unfortunately it was too small for my frame.

[Southern Breeze]

Don't forget to check thrift stores in your area. You will be shocked at the amount of tweed jackets that show up from time to time. I recently found a very nice Harris tweed jacket that would have looked great altered, for $15. Unfortunately it was too small for my frame.

By all means check those thrift stores. I found two Harris tweeds today for 5$ a piece.They've got some very noticible wear on them, but their perfect to practice on.

[Alan H]

Trift stores....Saint Vincent de Paul Charity shops, secondhand stores....GREAT for finding stuff that you're going to put under the sewing machine and experiment with.

[MacHummel]

Hey All

My wife went to Old Navy and bought me one of their Tweed jackets I was so excited so I have made plans to retro fit the jacket to look like an Argyll including a vest I went to a local fabric store and low and behold the exact tweed of my jacket was on sale so after purchasing a coupe of meters I said to myself lets get to work. I then came to the realization I'll start in a week or two there are a couple of folks jonesing for their kilts . They come first experiments later.
MacHummel