its cold outside so.....

[sblanck]

This is what I wear.

You have a pattern for that?
My wife can sew and made my PC and Argyle jackets.

Currently I have a black full cirlce cape I wore when I worked ren faires. I wasn't a kilted character though.

S

[OftKilted]

You have a pattern for that?
My wife can sew and made my PC and Argyle jackets.

Currently I have a black full cirlce cape I wore when I worked ren faires. I wasn't a kilted character though.

S

There is a pattern available from Harietts for a 19th C. version of the coat here: http://www.harriets.com/victmens.htm

Pumpkiny has a blog post referencing a cutter's guide for making an Inverness cape: http://thirddoctorcostume.blogspot.c...ing-block.html

He's using a bespoke cutting guide PDF which is hosted here: http://files.me.com/stevericks/j69siv

An alternate bespoke version is available here in GoogleBooks:
"Coats: How to Cut and Try them On" by T.H. Holding
http://books.google.com/books?id=yfc...20cape&f=false

The plate is on page 20 and 21.

[edit] I found an interesting version referencing young men, youth and juvenile garments that talks about the cutting information as well. http://www.costumes.org/history/100p...ersguide1c.htm (Making your own patterns can be challenging if you haven't done it before.)

Some of the references actually appeared in another article on making an Inverness Cape from a Greatcoat here on X Marks previously: http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...eatcoat-23926/ [/edit]

Hope that helps!

[Deil the Yin]

This is what I wear.

SHOWOFF!!!

Lookin' guid as usual, Mr Newsome.

[Tobus]

Your location makes me wonder if you are using the term "freezing" literally.

Um, his location is Wylie, TX, which is up around Dallas. It does get very cold there in winter. Even down here in South Texas, it was 22 degrees F at my house this morning. So yeah... "freezing", literally.

[xman]

Um, his location is Wylie, TX, which is up around Dallas. It does get very cold there in winter. Even down here in South Texas, it was 22 degrees F at my house this morning. So yeah... "freezing", literally.

Yeah. After my post I checked the climate statistics and found it much like my neck of the woods. A little cooler and certainly drier. Funny, but I just didn't consider Texas to ever actually reach freezing. My erroneous assumptions have been shattered, and that's a good thing.

[Steve Barclay]

I have an army greatcoat that I wear.

[Detroitpete]

I always keep a 'commando' sweater handy, along with scarf hat and gloves. Good thing is you can un-layer the look whenever you need to. I Use a Navy Pea Coat over any jacket I might be wearing.

Last week--mid-teens in temperature and an inch of snow. Participated in a large outside holiday fest (with assured trips inside as well). Stayed roasty toasty in a Stillwater Standard, heavy hose, boonies, commando sweater over oxford and t-shirt--wool gloves.

I actually LIKE wearing qa kilt outside in cooler weather----good thing I live in Michigan, eh?

[LANCER1562]

I have a dark navy London Fog trench coat that I wear over my kilt jacket, Oxford shirt and kilt when the weather turns nippy. It can and does drop into the low to mid-thirties in parts of Contra Costa County, CA.

[auld argonian]

I have a dark navy London Fog trench coat that I wear over my kilt jacket, Oxford shirt and kilt when the weather turns nippy. It can and does drop into the low to mid-thirties in parts of Contra Costa County, CA.

Mid-thirties nippy?

We had some tourists from Wisconsin here in Chicago last week when it was in the low thirties and they were walking around in their shirt-sleeves commenting on how much milder the weather was than back home. If yer spit doesn't freeze before it hits the ground it isn't nippy yet!

Best

AA

[Jack Daw]

Short of an Inverness Cape or any other sort of overcoat, the real key to staying warm is to have your head covered with a nice woollen cap or bonnet.