How to create and recreate: So it is snowing outside...

It is snowing outside...

Nevertheless, that has not stopped the existence of beauty. Not now nor in the sixties....

Na you won't find any pics of regular women walking around in the snow then...Narcissism was an unknown trait featured solemnly in the modeling profession due to lack of technology........ But as we see women kept warm with beautiful garments...

With the lack of all that "stuff" that fills the coats that keep us warm today I would think the streets looked far more interesting and attractive on snowy days....

Thus, it is time to take a beautiful warm coat from the 60's and recreate it to meet the requirements of today's cold eastern Winters. So this story starts with a 60's coat from Bond's 5th avenue made to endure the cold winter months and left to its own demise in a second hand shop. Here she is in all her beauty, but would she not look prettier shorter? Well I thought so.

As you see this girl was made to endure extreme cold winter months...with extra woolly lining and interesting collar detail. The large plastic bottoms were one of a kind...

So first I headed to the local store and bought a good old bottle of Woolite and gave her a much needed bath after all she is almost 60...Yep. She was filthy.

Next she was hang on the line to dry and spot cleaned.

Shrinkage was minimal...Thank God otherwise it would have all been for nada.

Next came sewing and more sewing....I started with the woolly part and after cutting the bottom followed the steps of that tailor 50 years ago in the hemming process. No the sewing machine didn't work. Too thick.

But finally things had started to take shape. Only that double lining left....yuck.......