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    In which we start work on the jacket. We're making the whole thing in one go, so grab yourself a sammich and let's get cracking on this.   Starting with the first version of this by seeing what alterations I want to make to this.    One: changing the trim to the same as the black and gold the cape has. Doing this by adding 1/4" to any side that has trim. That should give enough room to cleanly sew in the trim.   Two: adding a flap to one side of the jacket so that it can be secured without completely zipping it up or whatever. Why? Because I don't want to be constantly tugging at the jacket because the cape is pulling it all over the place.   Three: Going to button down the epaulets to maybe make them look nicer. Not a huge fan of them as is.   Four: Upgrade with nicer buttons. Not really an alteration per se, but I have newer buttons that match the vest.        For the record, this is McCall's M7616. It's a fairly straight...

    Alright, this time is a whole bunch of things so let's just jump right into it.   THE   SHIRT   Cripes, this is way too big on me. It'd be nice to fix the collar as well. It's also too big, but since it's a button-down style I'm not sure how to fix it that isn't just "redo the collar completely." And there really isn't time for that right now. So let's just focus on bringing in the seam and slimming this up a bit.     Why even do this? It's not easy to see in the photo, but this shirt fits me like a boat sail. There's at least two inches of shirt hanging off the armpit alone. That's only slightly annoying by itself, but becomes a problem the second you put the vest and jacket on. Then everything's puffy and doesn't lay well.   Course, there's always the option of just taking this to a tailor and, to be honest, if this were an actual work shirt I'd suck it up and do that. I've yet be employed somewhere where p...