#but i dont want to go quite so far as to try and recut it into a frock coat. i don't think there'd be enough material to do that

[spectre-ship]

a few years ago, when I first had an excuse to buy and wear 19th century clothes, I bought a really crummy canvas sack coat from a discount Civil War reenactment supplier who I'm fairly sure is no longer in business. I haven't worn it in ages. the build quality is terrible, to such an extent that the seams are straight up not finished correctly and a bunch of cloth frays every time it's worn; I got what I paid for. partly because of this, partly because it kinda doesn't fit me, and partly because it was the fashion in the 1860s to make everything jnco jeans levels of baggy, it also looks awful.

but today it occurred to me that, if I so wished, I could rip the seams to break the coat up into its constituent pieces, recut them using a pattern for a coat that will actually fit me and look nice, and stitch it back together as a learning exercise. so there's another project for the pile! I definitely do not have enough stuff crowding the back burner already