SUPER COLLAR CUSTOM DOWN COAT

My latest design, the 'JEALOUS WOMAN' coat. I.E. this is my final revenge of womankind for having access to lovely long down belted coats for years! I hope to make the girls jealous with this sexy little number. This literally took me an hour to do. Instead of wasting time doing photo-realistic photoshop drawings I now just do simple flat vector drawn outlines. Although quite simple looking you can change and tweak colours at the click of a mouse.

I'm sending this down coat away for manufacturing this weekend. It will have premium goose down of the highest quality with waterproof pertex shell. The coat is based on a woman's coat in terms of styling but will be twice as 'voluminous' and of a far superior quality than the usual North Face etc womens coats. However, will be a difficult one to wear!! The collar on this jacket will be 16" - 18" inches and very imposing. I learned the hard way about designing these huge collars. The slightest variation can be the difference in being able to zip it up or not. And having a collar this huge on a coat and not being able to zip it up is literally 'hell on earth'. But I'm skilled now. Having said that it's always in the seamstress.

I've shown two options here. I usually like a black zip and therefore I like to use black as one of the colours on the coat. For some reason I want to use a very vivid second colour. The coat will have quite a few zip and velcro pockets (not all shown). I may also include side zips at the bottom hem of coat and cuff zippers. If I include 2 internal zip pockets and 2 arm zip pockets (ski pass etc.) a total number of 13 zips will be necessary on the coat!!

I'm also working on a few polartec fleeces to be worn underneath. I'm using polartec 'powerstretch' for the collars and will hopefully come up with some cool new ideas. I gotta act fast as winter is approaching!!

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Tags: Belted-down-coat Long-down-coat high-collar-down-coat