Coming Together
The pinking went quickly and easily, and cleaning up the stray threads didn't take much time either. I cut the lining for the body out of the red cotton I plan to use for the lining of the trunk hose. After flatlining all the pieces, I basted the body together and turned under the center front edges. In the pictures the front is pinned and padded with a t-shirt, so it's a little lumpy. All things considered, however, I'm pretty happy with it so far. Pinking takes a lot less time than couching cord, though it is less forgiving of mistakes. I plan to crate pads for the peascod similar to how I did for the black suit, but with a few changes. I'm going to make the pads as entirely separate entities and then attach them to the lining of the doublet. I'm trying to avoid the outline of the padded area that can be seen on the black suit. Also, the pads are going to be asymmetrical. The pad on the buttonhole side is going to stop short of the buttonholes, while the pad on the button side is going to go out past the edge of the doublet so it can fill in the entire area under the buttons. I was not very happy with the dead area under the buttons on the last doublet. Also, I wonder if the black linen wasn't really heavy enough to mask the contours of what was going on under it.
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