|
Post by Black Hand on Jul 20, 2022 17:10:48 GMT -7
You can backstitch over the white thread and hide it. If the thread is cotton, you could dab it with strong coffee or tea to take the "bright" off. OR you could just wear it, which might be enough to accomplish the same...
|
|
|
Post by paranger on Jul 20, 2022 17:40:30 GMT -7
What about the gray dye you worked up esrlier?
|
|
|
Post by brokennock on Jul 20, 2022 17:44:08 GMT -7
I'm very surprised by the white bobbin thread used. I just went and looked at both of my coats and my waistcoat from Cobb Creek and color matched thread was used on both the brown coat and the camel color waistcoat. The thread on my grey coat isn't an exact color match but isn't bright white either.
Okay, so anyway. You have a lot of irons in the fire with incredibly noble intentions. This might be a good place to cut a corner and stop making extra work for yourself. If you were sewing together the coat yourself and didn't have the correct color thread, I'd agree you should wait to get some. In this case, it is a small detail and you have a lot of other bigger things you are working on or plan to work on. With the best of intentions and all due respect, I suggest you take Black Hand's advice and use coffee or tea or honest use to darken the thread. Or, and may the hc/pc gods forgive me, run over those seams with a fabric marking permanent marker of appropriate color. Hobby and craft stores sell an equivalent of a Sharpie marker intended for fabric in a variety of colors.
|
|
RyanAK
City-dweller
Once scalped…
Posts: 973
|
Post by RyanAK on Jul 20, 2022 18:05:28 GMT -7
Oh this isn’t a project I’m planning on any time soon. I’m just putting out my research that I find interesting and what I want to do. Eventually. I’m sewing shirts when I can and trying to get my ankle to the point that I can work in my shop on the flintlock.
My gray dye is a close match but it really needs to soak to work… and would affect the fabric as well. Plus… I’m almost positive this bobbin thread is at least partially polyester. Not sure how it would take a dye.
I’ll wear it as-is when I have opportunity. But I’ll eventually do the mods I have planned. The white bobin thread or a skirt lining, buttons and buttonholes, and buckram interfacing on the button line. I’m enjoying myself and it’s keeping my mind off my injury (was told today potentially another 6mos. until near 100%…) and a job I’ll be returning to shortly that has me scheduled for 70 hour weeks for 11 months.
|
|
|
Post by paranger on Jul 20, 2022 18:12:58 GMT -7
Yikes: 70 hour weeks for 11 months?!!!🥺
We used to have a term for that: deployment. By any chance, will anyone be shooting at you, as well?😁
|
|
RyanAK
City-dweller
Once scalped…
Posts: 973
|
Post by RyanAK on Jul 20, 2022 18:24:01 GMT -7
No, no shooting. That is an advantage. However, at least I don’t get paid overtime. 😑
|
|
|
Post by paranger on Jul 20, 2022 18:29:35 GMT -7
No, no shooting. That is an advantage. However, at least I don’t get paid overtime. 😑 😅
|
|
|
Post by Black Hand on Jul 20, 2022 18:43:35 GMT -7
....a job I’ll be returning to shortly that has me scheduled for 70 hour weeks for 11 months. If they're not paying you overtime, sounds like it's time to find a new job...
|
|
RyanAK
City-dweller
Once scalped…
Posts: 973
|
Post by RyanAK on Jul 20, 2022 18:51:27 GMT -7
....a job I’ll be returning to shortly that has me scheduled for 70 hour weeks for 11 months. If they're not paying you overtime, sounds like it's time to find a new job... Yessir.
|
|
|
Post by artificer on Jul 20, 2022 18:52:39 GMT -7
Not too thick. On par with most shirting, though heavier than fine handkerchief weight. Most wear for me will be in the fall/spring and I think it’s PC to doff the waistcoat and just wear a buttoned coat. It’s light enough to I do think about a wool suit of clothes for December and January flintlock season. Either way, I think I’ll line the skirt with… something. Not sure how much you might care about the following info, but perhaps you may like to know. In your time period, a "sleeved waist coat" and yes sometimes called a "jacket" was worn as outer clothing with no waist coat underneath when too warm, but it was considered informal wear and never "open before" in polite public. A man of your persona's means would have worn a full "suit of clothes" to church and social gatherings even when it was hot. Now they had "summer weight" waist coats and outer coats as well as heavier ones to wear in the fall/winter, but that gets pretty expensive and many of our period wardrobes aren't that varied, due to cost and the fact we don't use them anywhere near as much as they did. One way we can go a less expensive route initially is to use a summer weight coat and vary the waistcoats lighter in summer, heavier for fall and winter. Whether one next gets a winter weight suit coat or a wool frock coat, sort of depends on where/when you plan on using them. Gus
|
|
RyanAK
City-dweller
Once scalped…
Posts: 973
|
Post by RyanAK on Jul 21, 2022 6:27:16 GMT -7
Not too thick. On par with most shirting, though heavier than fine handkerchief weight. Most wear for me will be in the fall/spring and I think it’s PC to doff the waistcoat and just wear a buttoned coat. It’s light enough to I do think about a wool suit of clothes for December and January flintlock season. Either way, I think I’ll line the skirt with… something. Not sure how much you might care about the following info, but perhaps you may like to know. In your time period, a "sleeved waist coat" and yes sometimes called a "jacket" was worn as outer clothing with no waist coat underneath when too warm, but it was considered informal wear and never "open before" in polite public. A man of your persona's means would have worn a full "suit of clothes" to church and social gatherings even when it was hot. Now they had "summer weight" waist coats and outer coats as well as heavier ones to wear in the fall/winter, but that gets pretty expensive and many of our period wardrobes aren't that varied, due to cost and the fact we don't use them anywhere near as much as they did. One way we can go a less expensive route initially is to use a summer weight coat and vary the waistcoats lighter in summer, heavier for fall and winter. Whether one next gets a winter weight suit coat or a wool frock coat, sort of depends on where/when you plan on using them. Gus Funny you should mention this, friend. I have a sleeved waistcoat pattern being delivered today for a ‘someday’ project as a hot weather garment. It’s going to be 93 here today. Ugh. Same pattern will be useful for a wool waistcoat. But I think this costume will be fine for winter with the addition of a greatcoat, a wool shirt, and maybe wool flannel half-pants if they’ll fit ok under the unlined linen breeches. Breeches are a bit snug with the lace let all the way out.
|
|
RyanAK
City-dweller
Once scalped…
Posts: 973
|
Post by RyanAK on Jul 21, 2022 6:29:43 GMT -7
Here’s an image of an 18th century waistcoat showing the buckram interfacing along the button line.
|
|
|
Post by brokennock on Jul 21, 2022 6:47:19 GMT -7
...Breeches are a bit snug with the lace let all the way out. Snug in the case of breeches isn't a bad thing, remember, you won't have a belt, braces, or suspenders holding them up. If, they are too uncomfortably snug you could wet the waistband and put then on over a pair of underwear or two and a tucked in shirt, then wear them about during your daily activities to stretch them a little.
|
|
RyanAK
City-dweller
Once scalped…
Posts: 973
|
Post by RyanAK on Jul 21, 2022 6:53:20 GMT -7
Snug in the case of breeches isn't a bad thing, remember, you won't have a belt, braces, or suspenders holding them up. If, they are too uncomfortably snug you could wet the waistband and put then on over a pair of underwear or two and a tucked in shirt, then wear them about during your daily activities to stretch them a little. Funny. Doing this right now!
|
|
|
Post by paranger on Jul 21, 2022 9:04:49 GMT -7
Agreed. All of my period clothing has loosened up with wear.
In fact, for some reason, I have noticed that sleeping in them seems to loosen them even more. Several mornings I have awakened and had trouble keeping my breeches up. Maybe I toss and turn more than I realized.
|
|