Secrets of an Original 18th Century Men's Waistcoat Part 2 

I'm honestly half watching for the random one-liners you just so casually throw out. "It's a mess, just like 2020." "Why? WHY?!! Oh yeah, because of fashion." "Complete draconian. just went right through the fabric HI-YAH!"

"Learn to count (buttons) with Zack" 😂

I just found you! Female, 63, an every day Victorian dresser living in a 1910 bungalow in the US west. My wish is to get a horse (I'm proficient at western riding) and looking forward to switching to sidesaddle riding. Such self-awareness at 25 is REMARKABLE and so regreshing! Wish you were my son....er, grandson. 😊.

As a guess the large flowers at time 3:00 appear to be loosely based on the Pulsatilla genus. Maybe P. vulgaris. (Pasque family). This was an 18th century medicinal plant used for many aliments, headaches, tension etc. However, it was rare even then.

🎶Come with me, and you’ll be, inside an 18th century waistcoat🎶 with ‘angry sorry bitters’ My day is made, enjoy the small things 💖💖

the "straight stiches" are called satin stitches, and the "twisty stiches" are called stem stitches!

Can you talk about boning in men's garments in the 18th and 19th centuries. That would be fascinating.

So heartening that my handknitted cardigan with more buttons than buttonholes is fully consistent with superb 18th century craftsmanship.

I wish this sort of clothing was still the mainstream trend. You look great! Glad the arm is coming back.

The shirt and cravat WAS correct - for a Regency gentleman trying on his (for him) VINTAGE waistcoat. Regency gentleman playing dress up. :)

I'm just here to stan the patch. Such a talented patch.

"Take your Jane Austen glass [...] put a few dashes of the angry sorry bitters in there" Mr. Thomas Palmer, Mrs. Norris, Maria Bertram and Mr. Wickham exchange quick glances.

I’m so glad you broke with tradition and modeled the elderly waistcoat for us! It brought it to life to see it in motion. I learned that coats would stay on in order to cover the expandable backside of the waistcoat!

Due to the counting, I'm going to tell my children this was Sesame Street

What a gorgeous garment. Are you going to try copying it? That would be a fascinating series of videos.

can you turn off the autozoom on your camera... the constant change of focus is reeeeeally distracting from your excellent presentation of such a fabulous waiscoat!

To embroider a piece of fabric so precisely that it can be cut, draped, pieced, constructed, sewn, fitted and tailored to line up on a body so perfectly is.. just astonishing.

So pretty and the colors are still very rich. I used to embroider decades ago, but if my fading memory serves me correctly, the stitch is called the satin stitch and the stem stitch and some french knots. Just gorgeous. :)

I allways respect people that knows the risk of trying on an antique piece and take a well informed decition of doing so. Cheers to you good sir!

Such a lovely waistcoat. It is amazing that it is still in such fine condition. The fact that the embroidery is mostly straight stitching is indeed most encouraging.

I find the embroidery fascinating. To me it looks like the border was done by one person and the embroidery done on the main fabric by another. The little individual leaves and sprigs of flowers are very neat on the under side where as the border is very messy. I was taught that the back should be as neat as the front. It is a gorgeous piece of clothing. Thank you for sharing it. Your new waistcoat you're wearing looks wonderful. I'm glad you're able to sew again. Healing takes time.

As a traditional shaver, using both straight and DE razors, my first advice (if it hasn't already been given) is to use a styptic pencil (i.e. aluminium chalk) to deal with shaving cuts, it's quick and efficient...and the use of tissue paper for cuts is soooo 20th century!!!

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I’m here for the convalescence waistcoat. 😍😍😍

The waistcoat you have on is a beautiful print. Very dark and masculine, but also nicely flowery and bright. I’d love to have an waistcoat, jacket and breeches made by your talented hands some day.

You mentioned banyans in an earlier video. Could you make an in depth video about those?

I enjoy it when I find historical reasons behind garment design. Especially when they no longer serve a logical reason. I used to wear vests that had silk ties in the back with a god awful buckle that seemed to be there for no other reason than to come undone. I guess it's the relative to the ties in the back of a waistcoat. Wonderful treasure trove of information thank you.

for years i have admired the waistcoat on the wall in Skail House on Orkney watching this i will admire it even more thank you

It would just break my heart to put buttonholes through those pretty embroidered flowers!

I completely loved this video, the witty commentary, but actually seeing that waistcoat on you was breathtaking! It went from a mere cloth to a living usable item in one heart beat...brava!

I loved all the close up detail, thank you. The waistcoat may not have been saved if it had not been altered through the ages. I wonder how long the embroidery took to do. Very interesting.

I love that you tried it on! Those buttonhole stitches are the bee's knees

I'm so excited to be learning about menswear. I hope to have a late Georgian or Regency wardrobe one day and I find that information on menswear, which what I want, is so much harder to find than information on womenswear.

I’d love to see you do videos like this with clothes you’ve made either for yourself or for other people. I’d especially love to see the hussars uniform you made!

I think the embroidery was bought separately, then the tailor made the jacket. It makes me want to get out the embroidery hoop to make myself sonething. Birdy

i need to embroider flowers on my entire wardrobe, these old garments are so inspiring

I have doing flower embroidery on clothing thinking it is a fun idea, and this is such a cool inspiration. it is fascinating to see the same techniques and stitches throughout history.

Would love to see you reproduce one of these items for us all to see the process .

You're nerdy passion is adorable. I do hope you take that as the compliment it is meant to be.

*waistcoat was great playing himself as "pretty and old" in this

Great to see the reverse of the embroidery, it gives me reassurance that we really are not so different!

Piecing of fabric fascinates me,the idea that fabric was so precious it would be sewn in pieces in inconspicuous areas rather than cutting the pattern out whole and wasting an inch or two of silk.

What a gorgeous piece! Thanks for sharing! That Green Chartreuse, that was my drink in Uni.

The center back seam looks like what I was taught is a "flat felled seam". The buttonholes look like they might be corded buttonholes with the stitches done over an extra thread on the front for strength.

it's redicioulus how enjoyable it is to watch this.

Love how you ‘read’ garments. Looking forward to more.

Ps: your camera may not complain about focusing quite so much if you use brighter and direct lighting on the subject of the shot.

After you count the buttons and holes, I laughed like the count, and was kind of expecting you to do it too!! ❤️your videos! Thanks!

So pleased to see you’re on the mend. Thank you for sharing such a beautiful piece!

I am always so pleased when I receive the notification that you have uploaded a video!!! Thank you for sharing what you do, with us.

thank you very much for those insights! This was a very lovely addition to my evening

Absolutely beautiful waistcoat - even with the poor flowers being attacked by button holes haha

Absolutely stunning waistcoat, and your singing voice is so lovely!

Dear Zack, I enjoy your series and am glad that you are on the mend! I look forward to following you in 2021. Best regards, and Happy New Year!!

Thank you Sir Zach for sharing! Absolutely adore your wonderful art of details. Be safe dear soul.

Thank you for sharing this beautiful garment! It's nice to think that the wear points are actually portals into understanding the construction.

Beautiful piece of tailoring sir Pinsent , I love the fine details like the flowers and the detail of the buttons. a true work of art in fabrics. Kind regards 🇦🇷

Thank you for this tour of your exquisite garment. The delicacy of the stitches is a joy and I loved the sense of fun in your descriptions. Those buttonholes! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Beautiful! Thank you for the trip inside!

Thank you for this examination of an 18th-century waistcoat. Glad to hear your arm has nearly recovered. Excellent job sewing your own waistcoat. I look forward to seeing more videos.

I’m so glad you put the waistcoat on for us to see. After seeing all the work within the garment it’s nice to see it on. To see how it would have looked on the original owner. Thank you and keep smiling.

I had such a good giggle at "other authors are available." Thank you for my daily joy!

Delicious embroidery. Enjoyed you showing "the mess" of the underside of the embroidery. Thank you for all the details of this waistcoat. Fascinating.

Such a beautiful piece. Good to hear your arm is doing better!!

Positively delightful!!thank you!

Incredible!! Love this!!

Exquisite blended satin stitch embroidery! Thank you for such a treat.

That’s a delicious sounding drink! A good use for Angostura is very dry bourbon and soda with a few drops and a twist. It’s tasty, but you can nurse it for hours. Sometimes, you got stuff to do tomorrow…

Such a timely video. This last weekend I watched an old favourite movie of mine, Dangerous Liaisons. The costumes were sublime. It would be really interesting for you to do a comparison of an antique waistcoat to one you have made yourself such as that gorgeous new blue creation you wore in the video actually showing the way each component is inserted and what it exactly does. As for another video or set of videos, how to tie a cravat. Your camera needs a good talking to, it misbehaved badly, you need to remind it who’s boss!

You have no idea, how happy I am this channel exists.

Its absolutely gorgeous! I'm working on an 17th century mens waistcoat right now for a friend.

PLEASE mate more videos!,,,,,they are great.

The embroidery is marvelous. Thanks for the close ups of it and the button holes. I always like to look at the insides to see how things are put together. Feel better and stay face. Virginia in Ohio USA

such a lovely survivor-- thank you for sharing!

I just screamed at the camera to god damn focus already... but else I love this. I know there are some old books out there giving you instructions on how to make regency, edwardian or victorian clothes, but if I am trying to read it - it just leaves me puzzled. What you are doing is a wonderful thing. I also bought a traditional japanese cloth to really see how they make their clothes etc. and back to these classic european clothes: I wish someone could bring out a collection of drawn sketches with an easy to understand modern english. Also if you ever need a helping hand with tailoring (or compyling a collection of drawn sketches with commentary text) I would be really glad to work with you. Sure I live in germany, but having at least some kind of work would be nice and doing something which you are interested in... it sounds marvelous!

Thank you for sharing this beautiful piece I have started embroidery love it glad you arm is doing ok

I'm just enjoying pretty images and knowledge 🖤 lovely work

Oh the blood, sweat and (probably) tears that went into this waistcoast. I know I'd cry over doing that much embroidery. Thanks so much for sharing this cool piece. We will get through this. Take care.

Thank you for being you kind sir! You are a inspiration to us all!!!!❤️😍❤️

What odd buttons. They aren't perfectly round. I wonder what their base is? WOW! Seeing it on brings a whole different perspective!! I'm glad your arm is better. I wish you full recovery, sir. Stay well!

I love listening to your voice and looking closely at this old, historical stitching

Watching this while sewing my first ever buttonholes :). Mine are such a mess compared to these ones. I would really appreciate your talking about / showing how to make buttonholes. You're videos are always lovely.

Such a beautiful piece of clothing. Thank you so much for sharing.

I'm rather enjoying these videos. Thank you. Xx

I'm loving this so much!

Dear Zack, your so awesome and also handsome. I have never tried embroidery on my waist coats. Keep doing what you do and inspire us ! !

Dear heart, you're so soothing. I'm glad your arm is healing. Best wishes.

So beautiful! Thanks for sharing with us

Love your personality❤️

Glad to see your right arm doing better! 😃🙌🙌 Other than that I am also just glad that the waiscoat survives until this day (along with the vibrant embroidery 💐) (...that cut through the embroidery for the buttonhole though 🙀😢🙈)

Fascinating. The embroidery is gorgeous, and the colors are so vibrant. It must have been made for someone who was incredibly skinny (or wearing a corset of some sort?) as you are very slender but needed the extra gap in the back.

There is a dress from 1810 that I love very rarely for a few dollars, it was in the 1800s and I saw it too, I would like to carry such a piece of clothing on me from someone like you, and I know they will laugh in Turkey, but out of spite, I need to talk to you, Mr. Pinsent, I need people like you

“Angry Sorry Bitters” 🖤mood🖤

Splendid! ❤

Oooooooo, dinner and a show!

Glad to hear that your arm is doing better! How long did you have to wear the sling? Also your excitement for this piece is great!

I envy the embroidery on this piece. I can only dream... I will never be able to get through Angastura without hearing this voice saying “angry sorry” in the background. Thank you sir. Ms Rebecca

That's some beautiful embroidery.

Is it goofy to be in love with this? My grandmother was a seamstress but she did costumes and Italy and she worked New york... I don't know who she worked for I just know that they would never fire her because she could create everything. When I was young she would have us do this embroidery for fun with her. My mother had it all over a jumpsuit for the sixties she created....sigh❤

That waistcoat really comes to life when worn. It’s a good reminder that though these clothes are old and need to be treated carefully because of their age, they were made to be worn, and that’s where they look their best.