Modified Tweed Kilt Jacket

**Panache** · 8th May 06, 03:37 PM

Originally Posted by angerli

Hi!

Hey, that 's one nice job! Good going!! Next time you're in the mood to do another one, makes me wonder if there'd be enough material in the cut-off portion to make Argyll cuffs?? Now THAT would look REALLY smart!!

Sandy

I thought about that and decided that I didn't want to try too hard to turn this jacket into something it wasn't. If I had the cuffs altered (assuming there was enough material) then I would have to change the buttons. After I changed the buttons then I would have to have the waist altered to have it be more fitted. After all that I wondered, would it then be a perfect tweed argyle jacket? Or would it be almost, but not quite right. I thought that the epaulets and flaps gave it a good kilt jacket look without going too far from the simple lines of the jacket itself. Maybe if I had ever seen a tweed argyle
in person I might have tried. But I'm happy the way it is.

Cheers

**michael steinrok** · 11th May 06, 08:56 PM

Panache, I have met Mr.Nader. He seemed a very pleasant man and I'm going to take a jacket I found for 15 bucks at Goodwill. Conversion to an Argyll or Brian Boru.

**Panache** · 21st May 06, 09:59 AM

Originally Posted by michael steinrok

Panache, I have met Mr.Nader. He seemed a very pleasant man and I'm going to take a jacket I found for 15 bucks at Goodwill. Conversion to an Argyll or Brian Boru.

Michael,

Hope to see you wearing it at one of the kilt nights! Do post a picture of it if you can. Pretty soon Mr. Nader will be a kilt jacket conversion expert.

Cheers

J III