I went through a busy waistcoat making stage late last year; I hadn’t made one in decades and I had some fabric I thought would be interesting.
This was the first one,
I have only worn one of them, I should try more before summer.
I couldn’t buy lining fabric for most of them, this has the proper lining – awful fabric to work with. With lapels; I’d never made a waistcoat with lapels before. A more subtle one. This looks like suede from a distance but it’s cottonAnother set of lapels.I meant this to be a sample or toile but it worked out alright and I have worn it. I couldn’t find a double-breasted pattern at the time so I made my own.This was a lapel sample – it’s rough.
All but two are backed with cotton fabric, I could probably buy a variety of lining fabric if I tried in Sydney, but I’m probably not going to make any more.