Button Holing PC Coat

[billmcc]

Cavscout,

Your mention of using the botton-hole method to make buttons removeable came at a good time for me. I am in the process of converting my USAF mess dress jacket into a formal kilt jacket.

I am replacing the USAF buttons with the celtic buttons I bought from the British Shop:
http://britishshop.com/index.php?cPa...bdbc86b364f32b

The buttons on my mess dress jacket are sewn on in the usual manner. I will have a seamtress make small buttonholes so the new buttons can be attached as you described.

Thank you for sharing this information!

[cavscout]

Thanks for the insight guys.

After a bit of reading about pewter and confirming the buttons are solid pewter I opted to just sew the buttons on. Also after removing the satin buttons there were shiney spots and depresions in the fabric which I din't think would disappear after dry-cleaning. Before I knew it the buttons were on. I need to do the sleave buttons but all in all it turned out pretty good. I used Snipes photo as a guide and several others online.

http://community.webshots.com/photo/...69831397OHSmfY

Once I track down a decent vest we'll be good to go...and if I can sneak a 8 yard wool kilt past the wife

Bill, your mess jacket should look great, good lluck with that. Someone who knows what they're doing should do a bang up job!