After seeing so many great ideas here on XMTS I decided I wanted a casual jacket of my own. I set out to find something that would go well with my Modern Buchanan but wasn't just navy blue etc. (not easy). I came across this wool blazer jacket at Goodwill for $4.00

This is a close up of the fabric a dark green/black wool.


An elderly friend of the family is a retired seamstress who we like to give work to. She took on the task of cutting it down for $50.00 and this is the end result which I wore for the first time on Christmas:


I wanted to keep it simple, no epaulets etc, no extra buttons or cuffs, something I could wear out comfortably. So now I have a new $54.00 jacket.