Square Gold Kilt Jacket Buttons Anyone?

[Chas]

Also, I am thinking of having small eyelets put in my jacket so I can have the buttons attached with split pins. Then I can interchange the gold buttons for silver ones and also remove them for dry cleaning. I am hoping my local tailor can do the job. Has anyone done this? Is it indeed practical?Thanks in advance for your advice.

I have put eyelets in myself, in an Argyle. I am in the process of making a 'How to do it' thread, with pics on this very subject. It is not difficult and takes about 20 to 30 minutes per button - a long time, yes - difficult, no.

As to your jacket - there is a hole somewhere which will allow you access to all the buttons under the lining. Start anywhere on your jacket where the lining touches the outer and follow it, you will come to the hole. They are often at the back and very rarely at the cuff, but it is there. You will be able to remove every button on the jacket; you will be doing it blind, but you will be able to do it.

Regards

Chas

[Danny the Who]

I have put eyelets in myself, in an Argyle. I am in the process of making a 'How to do it' thread, with pics on this very subject. It is not difficult and takes about 20 to 30 minutes per button - a long time, yes - difficult, no.

As to your jacket - there is a hole somewhere which will allow you access to all the buttons under the lining. Start anywhere on your jacket where the lining touches the outer and follow it, you will come to the hole. They are often at the back and very rarely at the cuff, but it is there. You will be able to remove every button on the jacket; you will be doing it blind, but you will be able to do it.

Regards

Chas

Chas

I look forward to the "how to". I have one PC which I have discovered already has removable buttons and another Montrose which has the buttons sewn on. The latter I need to convert to eyelets at some stage. Do you need a sewing machine that does buttonholes? (I don't)

regards

[dfmacliam]

instead of gold.. what about brass?.. a set of well shined brass buttons look very nice.. or if you do not like to shine them.. anodize them.. In the military, I had a set of anodized brass.. and they looked good... its not gold.. but...

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

I probably wouldn't go with brass buttons unless (a) they are family heirlooms ("Ah, yes, Duchess, these buttons are from the uniform my great-great whatever wore at Waterloo.") or (b) they were from my uniform when I served in a regiment that now no longer exists ("Oh these, Your Grace? I was in the Loamshire Scottish before it was disbanded.").

The real problem with brass buttons is that they will look either Army surplus, or borrowed from your old navy blazer...

[sydnie7]

I put "gold" buttons on a tux conversion and think they look rather nice. Bob does have a "gold" cantle dress sporran to match, and mixed-metal or gold-finish kilt pins too. I used round buttons with vaguely military anchor pattern, available at Walmart (!) and many fabric stores.

In the planning stages


You can just see the edge of sporran cantle in this shot.

[Phil]

I must say the gold buttons look good on that jacket but I have never seen anything but silver buttons up to now.
Brass buttons would be a pain to keep polished I would think and as MOR says would look like you were wearing a blazer.

[Danny the Who]

I put "gold" buttons on a tux conversion and think they look rather nice. Bob does have a "gold" cantle dress sporran to match, and mixed-metal or gold-finish kilt pins too. I used round buttons with vaguely military anchor pattern, available at Walmart (!) and many fabric stores.

In the planning stages


You can just see the edge of sporran cantle in this shot.

They look great!

[sydnie7]

Thank you both!

[Danny the Who]

I have put eyelets in myself, in an Argyle. I am in the process of making a 'How to do it' thread, with pics on this very subject. It is not difficult and takes about 20 to 30 minutes per button - a long time, yes - difficult, no.

As to your jacket - there is a hole somewhere which will allow you access to all the buttons under the lining. Start anywhere on your jacket where the lining touches the outer and follow it, you will come to the hole. They are often at the back and very rarely at the cuff, but it is there. You will be able to remove every button on the jacket; you will be doing it blind, but you will be able to do it.

Regards

Chas

Chas

I did find the hole and thank you for the tip! It is in the tail of the PC. It allows me to access all of the buttons except those on the sleeves for some reason. There doesn't seem to be another slit there so I will have to cut one. At least the sleeve buttons are held on by rings. The two buttons on the epaulettes, alone on all the jacket, are actually sewn on so I'll have to put in eyelets there.

Then I will have a fully convertible PC!

It is amazing how you can own something for years and never really look at it properly. Until now I had now idea that most of the buttons on my PC were already removable.

[Bugbear]

I like navy blue blazers with brass buttons; though silver is fine too.

I wonder if a navy blue creil jacket would work with brass buttons for a kilt...