a nice jacket, scabal cloth
Published: Wednesday, September 12th 2007
I made the jacket pictured for a long time client a couple of weeks ago.
It was for him to wear for the first race meeting at the newly opened Doncaster Racecourse, home of the world famous St Leger Race.
The fabric is from the Scabal Trend jacketing bunch, and I must say, it is very nice cloth.
I always try to use my local merchants for cloth, and 90% of my clients fabric choices does come from them.
I do carry some odd Scabal, and Holland and Sherry cloth bunches ( the ones I consider the best quality and value ) as I do get asked for the fabrics from time to time.
Even though the bunch is really a dedicated jacketing bunch, after a short discussion with my client, he decided he wanted a suit in the fabric.
This can be a risky option, as purely jacketing bunches do not usually have the durability to resist the wear trousers take, the cloth is normally too soft.
I did point this out to my customer, and as he insisted this would only be worn as a suit maybe 3 times per year, and with care, we agreed to make it as a two piece suit for him.
The fabric is really nice, has a good 'hand', and is extremely easy to tailor.
The picture below shows the out breast welt pocket, and you can see the colours, and the weave of the cloth more clearly.
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