Restoration Part 1: Tweed Jackets From E-Bay
Always the cautious e-bay buyer I knew that scoring some heavy tweed jackets for the fall and winter would end up costing me a bit more than $5. I found two vintage coats that date back to the 1950′s one in a very thick, gray, heavy heringbone tweed and the other in a beautiful brown and white window pane check tweed.
Upon arrival the heavy herringbone was about a size too big and both suffered from about half an inch of sleeve shortness. I called Matt at Imparali and we made arrangements to have both looked at. Thankfully, both were tailorable and were fit perfectly to my body.
Tweed Restoration 1
Tweed Restoration Part 2
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Cool finds. What was the total including shipping and alterations?
Hey Patrick,
The heavy tweed was $24.99 plus $10.00 shipping. When it arrived it was a size too large and the sleeve length was too short, so there was a lot of work to be done on the jacket. Tailoring for that was about $70 all together because Matt had to add some lining on the sleeves to lengthen them a bit more.
The window pane check was $4.99 with $5 shipping and tailoring for that was $30.
All in all the total cost for both jackets with tailoring came out to: $144.98 which is $20 more than a herringbone H&M tweed jacket that is not half the quality of these.
I am more into restoration pieces than anything at the moment because the fabric and construction from the 50′s, 60′s, and even the 70′s is really tops.
All the best,
Dennis
very nice. I just bought a brown tweed blazer from ebay that needs some work (a little big.)
Dennis-
I’ve not done the ebay thing as of yet but after seeing your photos, I must say I need to get on my game. Both jackets look great on you.
The check jacket is magnificent! iCovet
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The first one is great.