Selecting a Day Kilt Jacket, advice.

[CollinMacD]

Thank you for thte further explanation, as I said a friend of mine was the first person with this style jacket and he did much in the way of design of it and I think it is wonderful though he also has several more standard Argyll jackets to choose from. I do hope you enjoy it when it comes and I am sure you will be delighted with it. Please do post photos when you get it.

I certainly will,,, FYI, I am going to get the braided epaulets vice the solid flat ones, I think it will give a little more character to the jacket. Also adding on the waistcoat a matching watch pocket on the front for my pocket watch.

I certainly will post when I get the jacket, going to be a very hard 10 week wait. But as they say all great things take time and effort, I think the person who I am working with certainly has the skill and effort to do the Jacket and waistcoat correctly.

Cheers....

[GMan]

I do believe that you will be happy with that.

[McMurdo]

I certainly will,,, FYI, I am going to get the braided epaulets vice the solid flat ones, I think it will give a little more character to the jacket. Also adding on the waistcoat a matching watch pocket on the front for my pocket watch.

I certainly will post when I get the jacket, going to be a very hard 10 week wait. But as they say all great things take time and effort, I think the person who I am working with certainly has the skill and effort to do the Jacket and waistcoat correctly.

Cheers....

I am sure you will be happy with the result having seen one of these before. You might consider a pocket watch button hole, I did this for my bespoke tartan kilt suit and I am glad I did. Here is a photo of it.

[Terry Searl]

I am sure you will be happy with the result having seen one of these before. You might consider a pocket watch button hole, I did this for my bespoke tartan kilt suit and I am glad I did. Here is a photo of it.

I just had two of my waist coats fitted with this vertical button hole feature. It really does simplify putting the chain t-bar in place, less strain on the button, less strain on the button hole the button uses, and the waist coat can be taken off without removing the watch and chain
When the seamstress put the button hole in place she matched the thread to the fabric rather than the thread used in the other button holes ......the reason was to make the vertical button hole virtually disappear when not in use....... Of course this only works for solid colour waist coats