Following up from the previous post, and because someone on Ask Andy asked for it, here’s a quick tutorial on sewing buttons on a suit. It’s a little different from sewing buttons on a shirt. Mark your button placement, make a large knot in a length of thread, thread the needle and insert it between the layers, 3/4″ away from the mark, and come out at the mark. Take a small stitch, forming a loop,Read More
Month: August 2009
Something I’ve been too lazy to do myself- a video on sewing buttonholes by hand. It’s in Japanese but I think the images speak for themselves. Slightly different technique from mine, I will try this one out and report (minus the paper template- how do they get that to stick?). And if anyone speaks japanese and feels inclined to translate I am sure there are many besides just me who would be interested. UPADTE: IRead More
A friend donated what was sold on ebay as a vintage Savile Row suit to my dissection project. At first glance it had most of the hallmarks of a SR suit but a few details were bothering me. I’ll get into those in due course. One of my first reactions was also that the finishing was quite a bit neater than I’m used to seeing from SR (except the buttonholes which were meh), but oneRead More