At long last, a new project to show off! This one is likely to be my crowning achievement: a green velvet tuxedo for my wedding.
And unlike most of my other projects, this one is actually somewhat mustachian from a cost perspective. Materials were about $250, and $200 of that was for 6 yards of the green velvet, of which I only actually used about half of it (for this project, I didn't really want to risk running short, or waste too much time figuring out how to lay the pattern pieces to optimize fabric usage). Certainly I could have rented a tux for less than that, except that we wanted me in a green velvet tux, and no rental place has such a thing. There are a few luxury fashion houses that may sell something similar, but I would have been looking at more like $2500 in that case. And it still wouldn't have been an absolute perfect fit like this one is.
There are certainly some flaws to be found (at least by me), which is slightly disappointing solely because it was my *wedding* tuxedo. But from the perspective of *me* making my own wedding tuxedo (it was my first-ever attempt at a jacket, 2nd pair of pants, and I'd never worked with velvet before), I'm super-proud of how it turned out. Just got our first pictures back, and every time I see it from an angle I can't normally see it, I'm like "damn, that's a great-looking tux!!"
(note that the boutonniere, crafted by my bride and her bridesmaids, has some Pendleton wool fabric from one of my above shirts)
