Date: 2012-02-09 09:48 am (UTC)
I had the use of approximately three pattern pieces from an old Burda pattern, I look at the seam lines of the original coat in screen shots, I gridded Sherlock up to get approximate button locations and pocket placement.

The time is kind of hard to say... I made and finished a TEST coat for this sucker just to try out the pattern. (Conclusion - needed work.) Do I count that time? Probably 20 hours on the test coat alone. On the real coat... I can't even say.

Materials - about $120 I think? The wool was cheap, ironically - 700 yen a meter, I got 5 meters. The buttons were 130 yen each. I had the gold paint already to touch them up. Red silk thread, 250 yen. Iron-on interfacing, maybe 1000 yen. The stupidly annoying and expensive stuff was the mohair/wool interlining (I was testing real tailor techniques) which gives the front of the coat that crisp, smooth look. THAT right there, for 3 meters... ugh. 8000 yen or so. The lining was cheap. 100 yen a meter, just some crisp taffeta of polyester in dark grey.

If I made this again, I would get a cheaper equivalent of that tailor's interlining.
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