Custom Clothing: Naval Officer's Coat Interpretation

This project gets the "Most Fun Project" Award for 2007. The client had what he described as a "whimsical" desire to make himself a version of a coat he had seen in a book about the Civil War. The picture was of a Confederate Naval Officer wearing a dark, long, double-breasted uniform coat with the requisite stripes of office, etc. The important feature to maintain was the cut of the coat. I interpreted the coat as you see, in a cotton marine water-repellant duck rather than a grey wool as the original. The coat is unlined, and features buttons that bear the "fouled anchor" symbol.