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July 21, 2011 by Tien Chiu

Back to the cashmere coat

I spent some time this morning playing with design for the cashmere coat.  The original design, made back when I couldn’t draft my own, now strikes  me as boring:

original simulation for the cashmere coat
original simulation for the cashmere coat

I wanted something more daring, more asymmetrical, and yet wearable on the street.

I spent some time draping various collar possibilities, and finally came up on this:

new simulation of the cashmere coat
new simulation of the cashmere coat

The asymmetric collar is balanced by the single black welt pocket  (I still need to figure out its final location); the other welt pocket will be done in the coat fabric and placed to be as absolutely unnoticeable as possible.  (Adding a second black welt pocket would totally unbalance the design and be visually distracting from the sweep of the collar.  The one black welt pocket is essentially a continuation of the shorter collar line, which adds oomph to the line and also helps balance the design visually.  The other one, if I added it, would clash with the long collar line and unbalance things again.)

I liked this, but felt it lacked tension at the top – some sort of defining line would help.  I tried a strip of coat fabric:

cashmere coat simulation, with braid trim
cashmere coat simulation, with braid trim

I am not absolutely certain I like the braid trim, but I think it has definite possibilities.  I will mull on this a bit more.

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  1. Lesley says

    July 21, 2011 at 12:35 pm

    How about setting the braid trim in from the edge of the collar, so that it leaves an small part of the black collar showing?

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