Prince Charlie advice

[Hothir Ethelnor]

Prince Charlie cuffs are "Breamer" cuffs when added to an Argyll jacket.

I would make them with canvas, and either lined on the underside or with the same jacket fabric.

I would simply split the seam the cuff is normally tucked into slightly higher than where the cuff goes and use the cuff to hold the end of the sleeve together.

[MacLowlife]

If I were you, I'd get the lightest "wool tropical" you can find. A dress jacket is worn indoors more often than out- at least mine all seem to be. I'd ask the tailor to show me some lightweight worsteds. Don't worry about the weave matching your kilt- go for comfort and versatility. Good luck.

[hot_rod29]

thanks for all the pointers guys.
My concern was that going with the cloth that matched might look like I was "trying too hard" and still didn't quite get it right. Then I sanity checked myself and realized that I'm the only one who will ever look at it that closely. So, I have three options of fairly hard wearing suiting fabric to look at. Next time I go to the souq I'll take my kilt with me and see how they look.

Then I'll take some pictures to the tailor, talk about construction methods and settle on a price. Order some buttons, buy the fabric, then it's all over but the waiting... then to order my new kilt.

Thanks guys you've been awesome.
This thread changed the direction I am going with the jacket, pointed me to some suppliers for the accessories and gave me some great talking points for my tailor. If anyone has anything else just let me know.