Capt. Sterling

hmmm hard to say since in most cases the breeches are pretty much hidden away under waistcoat, coat and stockings pulled up over the knees... over all what can be seen, seems to say no but then again... would love to see the original this is taken from ( a bit earlier) on the upper class, you certainly seem to have a case for more decorative buttonhole treatment around the pockets... but its hard to say whether or not it was common.... hard to tell from this one as well, note his breeches open at the knee

Oi Pat..sorry to interrupt here, but the imitation gold leaf..... how well will that hold up to being handled on a regular basis?

thread from the look of em

too many wings going around.... I vote for no. 5

Aye... a hard time... um...I mean.. difficult...time... I get all ... exci....distracted... ahem..

To the ...ahem... Mayan Mis... well... ye know... A very happy birthday, all the very best to you on this day and always!

Rate I'm going, it will still be in the car...

when the stitching extends about two inches or so past the actual button hole.... like the pics show with the darker coat... Ah I think I got you now.... in many cases the buttonhole extends well past the area that is actually cut open for the button itself... many buttonholes seemed to be worked any where from 1" to 2" long... purely for style... dang, I'd post ye a picture but I just realized my coats are still in the car since RF5... boy I was sicker than I thought...

Yer breathing....isn't that enough?

Which is probably fine Maybe if yer Dutch...

Thanks William, one big headache tackled...

My one cousin used to hand sew soooo much that she actually put a pc set of bed hangings together faster by hand then I did by machine... the more you hand sew the faster you get, the smaller and nicer your stitches are, and a lot of time, aye they look better than machine stitching

I'm not quite sure what you mean by elongated? Wide stitches? From what I have seen of originals my stitches are way too wide...now a lot of buttonholes were done on the fabric prior to cutting out the garment... I make my buttonholes after the garment is finished... and basically I'm too lazy to break up the stitch by going up and down... instead of just catching a bit of the fabric... am I making sense? when going through one layer as opposed to several the width can be much smaller and tighter... also with one layer, you can keep it taunt like a piece of embroidery.... which isn't going to happen on a finished coat to the same degree

Rural Pennsylvania Clothing by Ellen J. Gehret, I believe has some info on shoes as well

And Cheeky's will be up again... she is just having problems with her pc... just doesn't want to cooperate...

Pinned, hooks and eyes, stitched... a number of ways it could have been done

Momma took over 1500... dang...still waiting...

right then is there something I can do to help with the photos... I save some of them... if you want send them to me and I will upload them... if you put a private thing on the album remember no one can see them....just in case you didn't know...

You are just plagued with them.. what going on five years or so... you and pcs just don't want to seem to mix

sorry beg to differ... this was after that comment... and yer stuttering...

Not talking about you...chill woman! Mistresses...

I'm sure he did

I guess that means we get to see the rest of the 500 photos?

I had all the "baby faced pirates" this weekend... Looking forward to seeing Momma's pics... damn she always makes me wait...

Gwen and Gunner See here's the real Maddogge, looks nothing like that guy in the kilt And Rats & Maggie, jumping ship into a completely different time zone