And here it is, at last, that tasty little Vogue jacket as inspired by that classy little lady, Ms Nicole Needles. It had to be done. I couldn’t resist!
The pattern is V2934, a reproduction of an original 1950 design. Such a clever and very simple pattern that would whip together so quickly if it weren’t for all the hand stitching. Which, strangely enough, I didn’t mind at all.
I’m loving the dolman sleeves and the big cuffs which nicely balance out the short cropped cape-like body.
I used sew-in canvas for the interfacing. Really great stuff! It molded beautifully around the neck and shoulders and was the perfect weight to maintain the shape whilst still allowing drape at the front.
Initially, I had a slight concern that this shape might make me look like a Weeble, given my lack o height, but I do believe it does nothing of the sort! In fact quite the opposite. It is amazingly flattering for a jacket that is more like a cropped cape and I love it!
It is also so warm and so snug. The outer fabric is a wool blend, exact content unknown but at £6 per metre I’m not really that concerned!
But the inside fabric, however…
It is the most lavish lining I have ever used. 100% red silk satin, baby! Costing more than the main fabric –but boy does it feel lush.
Did you know these things were called frogs? Neither did I till very recently. But they do the job so perfectly. Takes a while to do them up but I’m sure I’ll get quicker with practice!
OK. That’s quite enough of that serious posing Janene. What this jacket really speaks, (apart from sugar-gliders) is aeroplanes!
So never let it be said that black jackets are boring! Or indeed difficult to make. If you don’t mind a spot of hand-sewing the old fashioned way this is such a walk in the park.
Before I sign off I’d just like to give Little Miss O a mention. While we were busy being crazy she was so patiently sitting and drawing the most beautiful picture that I just have to share with you.
Gorgeous! Simply gorgeous. Love the luxe lining.
Thank you Elizabeth. I might not be able to go back to regular cheap lining now :-/!
Lush! I loves it, and wow it does look great on you, totally suits your vibe. xo
Thanks Mrs C! So glad to have a new jacket that I can wear to work today! x
Now I gotta have this pattern asap…. Your photos are amazing darling. Of course thats because YOU are smoking. Love it
Haha! Indeed you should! It would look stunning on you! Thanks honey pie x
This is my favorite, gorgeous!!!! You look stunning, the shape is just perfect on you!!
Bless you. Thanks Jayne. 🙂
Fabulous Jacket! You look so chic in it and so cute too! Love Love Love this jacket!
Thank you Erin. So kind 🙂
what a beautiful jacket. The design is just gorgeous–it looks absolutely perfect!
Thank you so much 🙂
Beautiful jacket! I love the red lining, it looks wonderful!
Thank you MarrieB. Feels great when it slides on! 🙂
You got style, woman!! Fabulous jacket, so flattering 🙂
Thank you so much, Siri! My children would say otherwise! 🙂
great pics dear! what a wonderfull peice!
Thank you Liora. It was a treat to sew 🙂
Love how happy you look in it AND how fabulous you look too!
Awww… thanks Ms Lenith! We got a lot of funny looks in the park for sure! 🙂
I love the flash of red lining! And you’re right, I think the shape and length of this actually makes you look taller, especially when worn with that pencil skirt. Your legs look so long!
Best comment ever! Thanks Fiona. Have always wanted longer legs! x
Love it! The lining is very superhero!
Thanks Chris. lol. It so is. Lets hope it has the required effect! 🙂
Beautiful jacket, I have been eyeing this one up too, but like you I’m a shortie and worried that it would accentuate my lack of height, however to the contrary this looks perfectly proportioned and great on you. Beautiful job, and the red lining is gorgeous however once you have passed through the door of luxury lining there is no turning back!
Thank you T&T. I had the pattern lurking for sometime but it shot up the priority list when I saw Nicole’s version! And yes. I fear you are right about the lining!
Wow, this is stunning and fab pics as usual (well done Mr ooobop!)
I’ve always wanted a Cape type jacket but never been sure how flattering they would be but yours and Nicole’s have convinced me cropped is the way to go! One for the sewing queue!
Thank you Jo. Will pass on your lovely comment to Mr O too. x
Yowzers. That is amazing. The fabric has such texture and the frogs and design give the jacket real character, I love it. Well done on another gorgeous make!
Thanks Amy. When I saw the fabric I knew instantly what it was for! 🙂
I love your jacket Janene and you look amazing in it. And the photos are great too. Young Miss Ooobop obviously has her creative Mum and Dad’s talents.
Thanks so much Marj. I do hope to have at least one creative child out of 3!
Simply sensational – I’m very tempted by this but given I’m heading into a delicious Aussie summer I shall resist for now!
Thank you, lovely Lizzy. I’ll contain my levels of jealousy just for now! x
supper chic! and i love your bag, as well 🙂
Thank you kind lady! Forgot all about the bag at the back of a cupboard. Had to dust it off before the shoot! 🙂
Ooh, I made one of these recently too – in a black and white wool plaid (http://www.upsewlate.blogspot.com.au/2013/09/1950s-jacket-cape-for-tms.html) – there must be something in the air! Yours looks fabulous and chic on you – such a lovely shape, and the perfect length on you too! Oh and your photos are amazing too, as always!
I love your plaid version. This jacket could be made in so many colours/patterns. I agree that the lining could have been machined. I was just a bit worried in case it didn’t work for some reason and I damaged the silk. Will defo try next time. Thank you for your lovely comments 🙂
Super jacket and a great photoshoot. I love the lining, I think its a brilliant idea to use such luxurious fabric especially close to the skin. Looks like you daughter has inherited all of you artistic traits too!
Thanks Maeve. I never seem to get it quite right with linings. But of course, I have no issue with this one! I love that she loves to draw. 🙂
Oh my god it’s perfect Janene! I just love it, especially the saucy red lining! Please tell me the black fabric was from the Are You Being Served shop?!! If it is I’m hot footing it down there straight away! xx
Thanks everso lovely Jane. It was indeed from that shop! Just feel awful that I can never remember what they are called. Must find out!
I love this jacket, great fabric and awesome styling.
Thank you Gingerpetal 🙂
What a lovely jacket. It looks so good on you and I love that you used such a gorgeous fabric for the lining. And it’s red! Gotta love it. Wonderful pictures as always (the airplane pictures are hilarious). great styling… yeah, you look fabulous!
Thanks so much Rachel. You are so kind. Yes I am quite predictable with my reds!
Love the airplane photos, haha.
Such fun! Perfect jacket for the job!
Stunning jacket. It drapes beautifully and you look amazing. Gorgeous choice of lining and I love the frogs. The collar looks really chic.
Thank you P&M. The collar is cleverly shaped by 2 diamond darts at the front neckline.
Amazing pictures, gorgeous jacket, beautiful work.
Thank you Layla 🙂
So elegant! Love the red lining too.
Thank you Rosy. 🙂
The design looks simple but the overall look looks very rich and couture-ish. Love the lining too. Sewing really is in the details isn’t it.
Thank you. It was jolly good practice with small stitches. You can’t beat vintage details!
That is beautiful! I have such a soft spot for tailoring and yours is perfect. The lining is a joy and the frogs are perfect 🙂 I love your blog colour scheme too.
Thank you so much Babygreens. I try to explore other colours but I always bounce back to my faves!
So stylish! I’m normally not a big fan of vintage but wow, this is gorgeous!
Thanks Meigan 🙂
So chic and so flattering! I like the proportions of this jacket. I’ve made a cape, its line is similar to your jacket: http://en.inthemoodforcouture.com/my-simple-easy-cape/
Good work!
Thank you. The fabric you used for your cape was amazing!
Beyond amazing and you carry it off so well. Love the frogs and the photos are great, as usual. You are really relaxing into this modelling lark – you look like a pro.
lol. You say the sweetest things Tialys, thank you 🙂
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this!! Fabulous style, great colours & that lining is to die for! Daughter No2 is sitting here with me, practically drooling on the keyboard… Marvellous job, & fantastic photos too! 😀
Thanks everso Anne. It really is so simple. And I’m sure you would whip it up far quicker than me! 🙂
It’s really an amazing jacket. It can be done by so many different materials….For an Occasion like a wedding, it can be done in a nice piece of silk in a colour and instead of lining, another different colour of silk. By that, one can have a reversable jacket which can be matched with different evening straight dresses. In Malta we wear capes to go to the church for a wedding and then we show off the evening strap dresses and the wedding reception.
By the way you look gorgeous in it. It really works for an office work day in that material and with your hair style and that red bag, it’s amazing. Your positions are great for the photos.
Thank you so much. Silk would be stunning. Perfect for a wedding 🙂
I LOVE this! And looks much better than the original! Looks perfect on you! And the photos are a.mazing!
Oh wow. Thank you! 🙂
Love, love, LOVE THIS!!! Very tempted to copy you. The photos are amazing and I love the red lining. So, so chic – so, so you!
*Blush, blush* thank you soooo much Karen. I love wearing it x
This is one of my favourite patterns, and your version is so lovely! Glad to be an inspiration.
You truly were my inspiration. You were the first person I clocked in your amazing version! 🙂
adorable!!
Thank you 🙂
That jacket is nothing short of stunning. I am totally going to have to copy you (come our winter of course). How does it look with a full skirt? Or is that silhouette too boxy?
Thank you Lizzie. Haven’t tried it with a full skirt yet. I don’t think it will be great with a full gathered one but will give the half circle a go. So long as the waist shows, should be ok 🙂
WOW! Magnifique! First cropped jacket that make me want to make one!
Thank you Caroline. Go for it!
I never get over how gorgeous you are – absolutely LOVE this jacket on you, and am in completely despicable fits of envy over that lining… RED SILK SATIN, come ON!! I’m drooling….
Love the drawing, too – i assume the only reason you’re not in it is because you were moving around too much for a portrait? 😉
Oh you are a sweetheart. The lining was undeniably the best move ever! Won’t ever be able to turn back now! Not in the drawing because she was pretending she wasn’t with us! 🙂
Oh Wow, just wow! This is so perfect its untrue! The lining is definitely a little bit of superhero and sounds divine; I’ve only ever longly stroked silk satin in the fabric store, it must feel delicious being worn!
Thank you so much VK. Delicious is exactly the word!
That is one beautiful jacket, Janene! I love everything about it – the frog closures, the lining, the way it hangs so perfectly, the whatever-it-is fabric. WOW. Those fifties’ styles are something else, aren’t they?
(And your daughter’s sketch is the frosting on the cake for this post!)
Thank you lovely Karen. Love the 50s!
Here it is!! This jacket is so stunning, the fabric and red lining. And carrying your red briefcase!! You look just amazing. Such a style icon. Great job on this jacket.
Thank you so much Gjeo 🙂
Gorgeous coat. The oriental closures are the pièce de résistance!
Thank you Gail. A bit fiddly to do up but worth it!
Wonderful jacket, looks stunning on you. I’m almost tempted to make one,but I think it’s look awful on me. Love it, and love your photos too. x
Thank you Jeanette. I bet it wouldn’t!
Did I already tell you it is fabulous? I will just repeat it if yes and if not – here it is – IT IS FABULOUS!
You have just reminded me about it …
haha. Thank you RPT. 🙂
This is incredible Janene, you look every bit the 50s starlet! And Little Miss O’s picture is fab!
Thank you lovely Marie x
Gorgeous jacket…one day I will have a go!
Thank you Judy. You should!
It’s simply so gorgeous! My first thoughts on seeing such a pattern would be worrying about it swamping the frame also – but it doesn’t even come close to doing that – the proportions are gorgeous and so very elegant! And those gorgeous frogs at the front are stunning. Loving your sewing (nothing new there) and your fabulous photos 🙂
Thank you so much Poppykettle. I had the pattern in mind for ages and was thinking the same thing. It took one look of Nicole’s to see that it wouldn’t. 🙂
You look like a really sassy spy! If I saw you sashaying through my local park I’d think she’s hot stuff!
Haha! Love that x
Wow this jacket is totally amazing on you! Love the froggy closures 🙂 and the lining! Beautiful.
This is fecking amazing you stylish creature!
This is so beautiful! Instant glamour, and the shape is very flattering! x
Just catching up on my blog reading and I can’t believe I missed this. This is totally amazing! I love it! My friend has some photographs of her grandmother when she was a model in the fifties, in one she is wearing a jacket like this and you look so similar in these pictures, I had to look twice.
The coat! The styling! The photos! I die…and swoon…and die again!
Ooh la la, this is absolutely gorgeous! I absolutely love it. I love your style so much, can I just copy everything you make? This is definitely know on my wish list!
You look gorgeous!
This looks so much better than the muslin I made. So much so that I’ve reverted back to the jacket that went with my dress instead of this one. Might need to try it again now though seeing how yours turned out!
I think the jacket that went with your dress is lovely. However don’t give up on this one. It works so well with a substantial but drapey wool like fabric. It all comes together quite quickly but handstitching the lining takes an age. You’ll be good at that though! 🙂