CONFLICTED NEURONS!
(Ah, so that was what my tarot was talking about last night.)
I have my CSA jacket.
(No, I have no idea how customs didn't pike it and demand a huge ransom, but they didn't - YEY.)
It's darker than I thought, although that's not a bad thing, Corvids do dark rather well. Apparently I have to sew my own buttons and collar tabs on - a fact I either didn't twig or did twig and had since forgotten. Despite being made to my measurements, it's too big - the waist isn't too bad but the shoulders are waaaay out. This is probably to do with the pattern being for a bloke. I'm gonna have to pull apart the back seam and re-align it to stop it looking like a weird doublet. Soooo, it needs work done. *sigh*
On the other hand, it's a lovely charcoal grey with black trim, gold insignia and lined neatly in cream canvas. And as with Riflemen tunics, Arker's jackets, Napoleonic greatcoats and WWI uniforms, I want to hug it and pet it and wear it forever. (Oh I so need a 1907 lee-enfield bayonet...)
In conclusion, it's a very high probability of YEY and GLEEEE on the horizon, but final outcome must wait 'til buttons are fixed and adjustments made.
I have my CSA jacket.
(No, I have no idea how customs didn't pike it and demand a huge ransom, but they didn't - YEY.)
It's darker than I thought, although that's not a bad thing, Corvids do dark rather well. Apparently I have to sew my own buttons and collar tabs on - a fact I either didn't twig or did twig and had since forgotten. Despite being made to my measurements, it's too big - the waist isn't too bad but the shoulders are waaaay out. This is probably to do with the pattern being for a bloke. I'm gonna have to pull apart the back seam and re-align it to stop it looking like a weird doublet. Soooo, it needs work done. *sigh*
On the other hand, it's a lovely charcoal grey with black trim, gold insignia and lined neatly in cream canvas. And as with Riflemen tunics, Arker's jackets, Napoleonic greatcoats and WWI uniforms, I want to hug it and pet it and wear it forever. (Oh I so need a 1907 lee-enfield bayonet...)
In conclusion, it's a very high probability of YEY and GLEEEE on the horizon, but final outcome must wait 'til buttons are fixed and adjustments made.