Cotton duck jackets

Here's one of our latest projects and garments. After our travels to Los Angeles and all the fine 19th century-denim we've seen, the time felt right to make a Blue Highway type one-jacket. We used the cotton duck quality that we bought during our first trip to L.A. and were inspired from the pieces of an old jacket from the 19th century.

Here's the result.

We chose to make the fit a bit more modern instead of it being made all according to the epoch in question. Also, we placed small leather pieces behind the pins and buttons to prevent the duck fabric from being damaged. Because the jacket isn't woven in the same way as denim it becomes less tolerant by the relatively sharp edges of the pins, which is a detail that can be seen at specific duck garments from the 19th century. Instead of a chinch back, we made two leather braces that can be used to justify the width of the jacket. It's not a detail we've seen on a garment earlier, but we thought it fit well on our model.

//Douglas

Written 2010-03-17 at 18:39

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