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I was lucky enough to find some very heavyweight, yet finely woven cotton for the shirt.
It was made for upholstery. There are not many good photos of this, since Bilbo keeps his
vest on. The sleeves can be seen, but it is difficult to get a good look at the collar.
I did some guessing and quite a bit of ripping and re-sewing.
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The trousers came from the Goodwill store. I was fortunate to find a very similar color
and fabric appearance to the research photos. I also purposely bought them an inch
or two bigger than he usually wears them. I added buttons for the braces, which we already
had. Shortened the legs, and put the buttons on the legs. The buttons were originally white.
I could not find anything in grey similar to the correct ones, so I painted them to match.
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The cravat was tricky. I wanted a silky fabric, but could not find a match for
the pine green and yellow paisley used in the film. In fact, I was not finding a match in any
fabric. After several tries, I was about to give up, when I ran into a co-worker at the fabric
store. When I showed her what I was working on, she claimed to have seen the very thing! in the
store! over there SOMEWHERE!. An hour later I finally turned up three quarter flats of pre-cut
quilting cotton in a pine green paisley. They are stiched together, then into a tube and has a
handrolled hem.
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The vest began as a pattern. I used Butterick 3721 because I needed
the double-breasted design. The collar on that one was wrong and began too
low on the body so I made a rough version in muslin and used it to guide the
alterations. The vest in the film seems to be a floral brocade. I had originally
planned to use one like it for the vest here, but as luck would have it, the
fabric we found for the coat lining was a floral (instead of a vine) so I used the
vine pattern on the vest and the floral on the coat, switching the two patterns.
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