INVERNESS TOP COAT.
LESSON 29.
This garment is drafted on the same out-lines as the box coat, to begin to make the changes of this garment, divide from I to G makes 4, now draw a line from 4 to M, now begon the front, from 4 to 5 is 1 1/3 inches, draw a line to 3 down to 13, now divide G to W makes 16, cross a line from 16 to 17, now curve the frost arm hole from V to 17, also curve the back shoulder from L to J M down with a straight line to 1,2, 12 is 1 inch up from 11. Now make the front cape, make a round line from the front shoulder from U to C, now sweep from C by O the curved line which gives 6 in front, the front of the cape part begins at the neck from Z X 8 down to 6, from 7 to 8 is 3/4 of an inch, at the front shoulder at U and 2 make a lost dart to 18. The button stand for this garment is 2 inches only, as there is no use for any more.
This garment here shows a button up neck, from 20 to Z is 3/4 of an inch, from Z to 10 is 2 inches, now curve from to Z, 10, Y, 9, from 14 ti 15 is always 2 inches. This garment shall be cut of a full box coat, the garment has no sleeves as the arm-hole is not cut in the usual way, the arm-hole begins at U, and finished at 17. The cape begins from O, U, 2, C around to 6 and up to S, X, Z to O.
This completes the Inverness coat.
