Quote Originally Posted by ChattanCat View Post
I'm not sure I understand the darts yet. Most jackets have a center back vent that is closed up and two side vents are opened. Do the darts eliminate the need for opening the two side vents?


I'm still experimenting with it, Wally, but they might. Think of the darts more as a giant box pleat on the back of the jacket, and they are tacked down at a point right around the natural waist.

Normaly in a conversion, you open up a back-side seam on eather side of a jacket that is a little too small around the waist. I am taking a jacket that fits regularly, or it could be a little big, around the waist. That slack in the waist is taken up in these two pleats on the back. The center seam is closed up like in a regular jacket conversion.

Even if I do have to open those side seams, this tecnique does away with the need for the panel flaps behind the vent.

I'm still fooling with it, so it might end up a little differently than I describe in my first post on this.