I found this jacket at a church fete in a 'fill a box for $1' section. I didn't know if my daughter would like it, but I figured at that price 'who cares!' Well she loved it but again it was huge on her. This revamp took a bit to do but was worth it in the end. The jacket was lined, but the lining wasn't stitched down at the hem. So I went under the lining to do all the adjustments. First I stitched the sleeve caps in about 2 centimetres as the sleeves were far too wide (removed the shoulder pads first). Then I unpicked the neck facing (only a few centimetres on both sides of the back seam - no need to unpick the whole facing) so that I could sew in about 2 - 3 centimetres on the centre back seam to make the jacket a smaller size. Then I stitched in the same amount on the facing so that it would fit back on the smaller neckline and then stitched the facing back on.
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