*I ALWAYS USE MOLESKIN* velvet on my coat pocket linings - and I used to have a vintage coat that had ACTUAL mole skin pocket bags - and it had Raglan sleeves. Lost it in a house move, so sad...
I absolutely love the vintage overcoats. I have a few in my collection. Could you make a video and talk about the difference between the vintage and or modern Savile Row overcoats and the average run of the mill coats produced today. I have one very high end modern overcoat (not Savile Row) and it still has all of the hallmarks of a quality garment. Is there any details about Savile Row overcoats that I don't know? Love your videos, always looking forward to the next one. Keep them coming.
The vast amount of work inside that you never see that makes the coat almost indestructible. There are thousands of stitches that just hold one piece of linen tape to another bit of cloth to the collar to the collar canvas to the front canvas to the pocket jettings to the pocket bags... There are linen tapes that connect the pockets to the side sans so if you get them caught on a door knob they wont rip. If you put something really heavy in the pockets they won't rip cos they are yoked around your neck. Id say the indistructability of a garment made in the Savile Row method is something people never talk about.
I guess it depends upon the mill, etc., if that worsted is really valuable in it's own right and how old is "old"... Like if it's from the 80s or 90s and was used for wedding rentals vs. from 1950s or before, etc., etc....
