Making an 1890s walking suit | part I, the jacket and tailoring 101

Hello everyone and welcome to a new video!

As I mention in the video, a couple of years ago I made a half scale 1890s walking suit, and ever since I've wanted to revisit the style. I actually bought this fabric a while back and finally got around to it now. I kept putting it off because I was intimidated by tailoring. I had done most of these things in half scale, but it had been a while back so I didn't really remember anything.

This is going to be a new short video series, as there are a lot of elements and components to the walking suit, so there will be a video shortly for the sleeves, skirt and vest! Again, I would just like to mention that I am not a professional, I am self-taught, and these are just my experiences making things work based on what I knew. I try to refer to the correct way of doing things when I know I'm directly going off piste. I'm not sure I explained my materials very well, so here it is again. Authentic Victorian Dressmaking Techniques only mentions adding horsehair canvas directly to to the wool, but as my suiting as very malleable and lightweight, I added a layer of cotton canvas as an interlining. I do think this is tailoring cotton canvas, as it also seemed to contain a little bit of horsehair woven into the fabric, but I cannot remember when, how or why I got it in my stash.

Things mentioned:
Authentic Victorian Dressmaking Techniques https://amzn.to/2ZRkMIH
Keystone Jacket and Dress Cutter https://amzn.to/2yM2gXa and freely available online https://archive.org/details/keystonej...
The Victorian Tailor https://amzn.to/2ZNdUw4

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