The Smoking Jacket, Evening jacket
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Evening jacket

The Smoking Jacket

From£2,90058 hrs of handwork2 fittingsBespoke · cut to your own patternCloth, a waistcoat and the details move the price; your cutter quotes it at the first fitting.

For the hour after dinner. A quilted shawl collar in black silk, silk frogging instead of buttons, and a velvet that goes almost black in the folds.

  • ClothCotton velvet, burgundy
  • ColourBurgundy
  • Also cut inBottle green, Midnight
  • LiningQuilted black silk
  • ButtonsSilk frogging
  • DetailsQuilted silk shawl collar
  • Silk frogging closure
  • Turn-back cuffs
  • Patch pockets
  • Unvented

Your commission, dated

  1. This weekThe first hourCloth chosen, twenty-two measurements taken
  2. Week 4FittingThe coat basted and balanced on you
  3. Week 8CollectionFinished by hand, pressed, yours

Included 2 fittings · your paper pattern, kept in the house for life · a monogram sewn by hand · alterations as you change

The cloth

Cotton velvet, close up.

The Smoking Jacket is cut from cotton velvet, burgundy. Every cloth on the winter rail is in the cloth room on the home page; any of them can be cut to this pattern.

The cloth room
Cotton velvet in burgundy, close up
The Smoking JacketBurgundy
11oz

Cotton velvet

Origin
Cotton pile, finished in England
Weave
Velvet, pile cut downward
Lining
Quilted black silk

Cut with the pile running down, so the colour deepens to almost black in the folds and in lamplight.