The Ebay Eton jacket goes formal

[Alan H]

This is my Eton jacket that I bought off of ebay for $40 if I remember rightly. Cavscout has one, too, I think, as well as a couple more X Markers.. ANY-way, my lady had some pewter buttons left over from Grandma's sewing chest so I pulled off the couple of satin buttons that were on the jacket and sewed on Grandma's. I bought two little packages of nice, smaller pewter celtic buttons off of ebay for $5 for a card of five, and put them on the cuffs.

A Web trip to www.uniformalwearhouse.com revealed the three button vest, and I bought a backless one for $39, spending wooo-hoooo four or five bucks more for a wool one than polyester. When it arrived I cut off the satin buttons on that, and replaced them with three of the nice pewter celtic ones.

I cannot possibly justify $250 for a Prince Charlie and vest, but $50 all-up for the jacket and $40 for the vest...total of about $90, I can handle. Whatever else I may be, I'm CHEAP....OK, OK...Frugal, then. The kilt is the Holyrood Modern from Caledonia Kilts that sells on ebay.

This is Yours Truly, about to jump in the car and head up to San Francisco to attend a Symphony concert.