Sewing the Pink Coat:: Fabric and Patterns

I went to Nippori fabric district the other day and bought this pretty salmon pink (or blush rose) wool for a mere 300 yen per meter. I bought three meters of it. Such a score! I forgot the name of the store as it was new. I had not been back to Nippori since the bloggers meetup back in August, and there were some changes. One of my favorite shops, Zakzak (wrote about the shop here)closed one of their stores (the bigger garage one, which I preferred), and there were a few new shops. I’m sad about zakzak’s closure. They were dirt cheap, so maybe they were not making enough profit.

Anyway, as I bought this pink wool, I started to think about sewing a winter coat. To be honest, I hate winter. I hate cold. I hope wearing a cheerful color like this pink will help me get through the miserable winter. I made a teal color coat last winter, so I wanted to make something with a statement color this year as well.

For a coat pattern, I browsed through burdastyle’s coat library – I have a love and hate relationship with BurdaStyle patterns. I hate printing out the patterns and taping them together but I love the instant download. I keep going back there because their patterns are reasonable and I can get it right away.

I ended up purchasing Wool Long Coat 08/2012#101B. I see this kind of oversized, long coat with lapels all over the place here this winter. I posted one from a Japanese magazine, Vivi on instagram. They call it “Chester coat (チェスターコート）” over here. I wonder what they call in real English-speaking countries.

Here are some images from my moodboard – I’m deciding whether to shorten the length of the coat to about thigh length, or keep it around the knees. For practical purpose, it would be better to keep it long, but I’m not sure how I would look with oversized, long coat since I’m not that tall. Any thoughts?

One, Three, Four from Natalie Off Duty, and Two from Karla’s Closet

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