#36 Back to School Wardrobe: Grey Vest from Blazer

REFLECTIONS: This grey vest is for the Jan/Feb school wardrobe.

This is #2 of pre-retirement grey blazers / suit jackets re-fashioned into school days vests

to wear with winter pants and jeans. This is my first education job where jeans can be worn daily.

BEFORE: Much worn and now too small pre-retirement jacket from the closet.

Moths and wear left bare spots in the sleeves. Lining was ok.

Years ago shoulder pads were removed and oversized collar was trimmed down.

STEPS: This jacket will become an easy to wear vest.  

• Use a seam ripper to remove and open the jacket sleeves and side seams.
• Serge exposed seams to prevent additional fraying.
• Use sleeves and sleeve lining to cut side inserts to enlarge the sides.
• Trim shoulder seam to fit narrow shoulders. Slowly 1/4" at a time, trying on for fit.
• Cut and insert bias armhole trim from the silk tie.
• Hand stitch trim fron the stash, Machine stitching did not lay flat and gathered jacket fabric..
• Change buttons found in the stash.

  AFTER:  Easy wear vest for a variety of grey, pink, black, white, purple tone turtlenecks. 

AFTER: Vest with top worn with original blazer.
Shoulders were trimmed back to fit narrow shoulders.
Pinterest search shows some vests shoulders trimmed very narrow. 

AFTER:
Handstitched stash trim was worth the time.

New button from the stash.
Note: true collers are dark grey and black

Bias trim cut from stash tie.

Auditioning trim.
Original double breasted buttons.

BEFORE:
Much worn: Pre-retirement blazer from the closet.