My daughter likes her new coat! As I mentioned in the previous post, I made a trench coat for her out of this fabric when she was five. She is now nine, and was still wearing it up until a couple of weeks ago. Since she obviously appreciates it, and I had some more of the fabric lying about, I made her a new one.
It’s made with necktie silk, which is wonderful to work with and increasingly difficult to find. I’m on the hunt for more of it for my stash. I bought this one at Fabricmart several years ago for some ridiculously low price.
I used a pattern from the Japanese book “Basic Style”, which contains patterns for a large selection of childrens’ coats. Really, every standard coat style I can think of is represented. This book would be a good investment if you are interested in that kind of thing.
The girl herself.
Basic Style, the Japanese book that contains the pattern I used.
detail of the facing. I did not have quite enough fabric, so I had to make half of the facing out of another fabric.
Hong Kong finish
inside view. I underlined it with pink silk faille.
undercollar
The pattern includes a full belt, which is just asking for trouble on a child’s garment. I replaced the full belt with 3 rows of elastic in the back and a half belt in the front.
detail of back trench flap
back view
Rolling in Cloth 
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that is too cute! love the belt hack that you did. 🙂
Stunning…your daughter has such sophisticated taste!
A beautiful trenchcoat, Claudine! You are training them young for a luxury life! (And maybe this is your way of teaching them to sew?) 🙂
Thanks! One of my childraising goals is to train my kids to recognize cheap crap. So many people can’t.
Looks wonderful, Claudine. I love the interior finishing. Silk trenchcoats! *sigh* But I’ve a question: laundering? How often and using what method? I mean, kids + silk don’t usually mix that well… in my world, anyways.
Thanks! I have girls, and they tend to be easier on clothes than boys. I just washed one of these coats that I made on the last round, possibly for the first time. I washed it in a regular warm water load with whatever other clothes were in the hamper, line dried it until it was just a little damp, then ironed it dry. It came out fine. It does help that I prewash all of my fabrics before I start the project.
I find that the only silk that I really can’t wash is duchesse satin. Also, wool shrinks every single time I wash it, so I try to keep away from wool for kids clothes.
Very chic for a 9 year old! When I was 9, (back in ’93) I begged my mom to make me a pair of cropped harem-style pants with a matching crop-top from sky blue Elvis Presley printed fabric. Not quite as sophisticated as your daighter, but I was impressed enough that I became interested in learning to sew for myself. Has your daughter/s shown any interest yet? They will have a wonderful teacher!
My younger daughter is interested. She drapes on my form sometimes when I am sewing in my sewing room.
I too am always looking for more tie fabric. If I knew how hard it was to come by, I would have bought more at the time!
Let me know if you find any!
This is a beautiful coat and your daughter looks adorable in it!
Gorgeous work as always!
Adorable! She looks so proud to wear it! And the inside looks as nice as the outside!
LOVE IT! Beautiful finishing work.
Absolutely gorgeous! Superb work as always, and I always love your fabric choices. Artistic and fabulously unexpected 🙂
This is so beautiful!! Must make sure my daughter does NOT see this 😉
Fabulous coat! Lucky daughter. Love looking at what you’re working on.