DIY Gaunlet Style CUff -Jacket Conversion

[cacunn]

When you shape the front of the jacket for the sporran and shorten the sides and back will you have enough material for gauntlet style cuffs? If you search some of the retail stores for Argyle jackets you can see a closeups of the cuff.

[Earl D]

Thanks guys for your feedback. Kevin PM'd me and is sending me a gauntlet pattern.

cacunn-I was planning to use the cut off material to fashion the cuffs-but as I was showing the Bride (my tailor) what I wanted, she noticed several moth holes in one of the sleeves. She suggested salvaging the rest of the jacket to make a 5 button vest. We went shopping at a local thrift shop and came home with a nice wool black/gray harringbone 2-button jacket that we're going to convert.

I'm going to order a tux jacket and use Kevin's gauntlet pattern to make a nice Argyle.

[James MacMillan]

Thanks guys for your feedback. Kevin PM'd me and is sending me a gauntlet pattern.

cacunn-I was planning to use the cut off material to fashion the cuffs-but as I was showing the Bride (my tailor) what I wanted, she noticed several moth holes in one of the sleeves. She suggested salvaging the rest of the jacket to make a 5 button vest. We went shopping at a local thrift shop and came home with a nice wool black/gray harringbone 2-button jacket that we're going to convert.

I'm going to order a tux jacket and use Kevin's gauntlet pattern to make a nice Argyle.

Thrift shops and the backs of closets are wonderful places to look for jackets to convert! Wearing a jacket that you have converted or had converted is much more satisfying than buying one (in my opinion)

[cacunn]

I'm going to order a tux jacket and use Kevin's gauntlet pattern to make a nice Argyle.

A question for those more in the know. A tux jacket normally has satin on the collar, is this appropriate for an argyle jacket? I understand that an argyle jacket is a suitable substitute for a Tux, however, is the satin collors of a Tux jacket suitable for an argyle jacket?