Gilets in black

Gilets are easy to manufacture. Once you have a nice looking pattern, that produces well fitting clothes, the only thing you have to do is to select some fabrics that will do to back up your personality (and cut and stitch carefully and in the right order, of course).


I manufactured some gilets in black. Above is one I made from a remainder of a striped black denim I used for a pair of jeans.  


The pockets are what in french are called poches passepoilées, in english probably welt pockets, in dutch paspelzakken.


The backside is a simple gray corduroy.

Here is another black gilet I made. The front is a very fine waled corduroy fabric with small motives. I came along this one in a local shop with supplies for knitting and sewing in the community of Dieren, where they had a number of these very thin corduroy fabrics.


The backside has been made of a simple grey, sofly striped cotton fabric.


The pockets once more are welt pockets, this time with flaps. And the buttons were recycled from a garment, one time bought in an  "America Today" shop.

And here is a gilet made from a more wide wale black corduroy fabric, front and back manufactured with the same material.


This is one of the first gilets I made. The pattern is a bit different from the other two, and I prefer the pattern of these two, because of a better fitting and look.