Coats - settle a disagreement for me!

[fluffypigs]

Hi everyone, I hope you can help me settle a long running disagreement. You know when you buy a new coat and the pleat/opening whatever it's called at the back is sewn together with a stitch, you're meant to unpick that right? I see so many people with the stitch still in and it looks odd to me, but my friend is adamant that's supposed to stay. Am I making sense?

Don't even get me started on those 'with cashmere' labels people sometimes leave sewn on the sleeves.

Thanks!

Of course you unpick it, otherwise you have to take pigeon steps everywhere!

Ah the funeral style woollen coats

No I don't wear that style at all

Pic for people who haven't seen a vent-tack

80's girl here. Please for the love of christ remove the perforated size label from the back of your Levis. Nowt worse than it flapping about, with written proof of your waist and leg measurements on it.

What coats are these? Either I've never seen a coat where you need to do this, or I've been coat-ing all wrong my whole life.

Oh right that'll teach me to read the full thread first.

I'm still none the wiser

Thanks blank!

Now I know what everyone is talking about.

Of course you unstitch it, unless of course your arse is too big for it and the vent gently frames your crack like one of mine. I hadn't noticed untill I was in a changing room 6 months after I started wearing the bloody thing

Looks like a consensus and I'm happy to join it.

Who have you been arguing with, OP?!

When I lived in London, I saw so many people on the tube escalators with the white labels still on the bottom of their shoes, I started to wonder if I'd been doing wrong all my life taking them off.

I also never unpick pockets. Otherwise its too tempting to put stuff in them and look all lumpy. I like a smooth line.

The not unpicking is baffling but not as much as people who don't remove the white stickers from the soles of their shoes. I hate seeing that flash of white as they walk in front of me.

My DM used to say that only 'ladies of the night' have their fee stuck to the soles of their shoes! I now always make sure that the white sticker is removed before wearing!

Yes, for the slit.

I leave pockets in suit jackets though, stops me putting stuff in them which makes them gape and spoils the line.

My dads been a tailor for 65 yrs. the tacking stitches are only there to hold the line of any garment in place until brought. The vent stitches come straight out, but the pockets can be left in if you want to keep the line of the garment correct for as long as possible.

I leave pockets stitched to stop me using them.

I unpick vents though and always get DH to remove the labels from my shoes.

I will be showing the thread to my friend and insisting she unpick her vents immediately

Thanks for the picture Blank, much better than my description!

I'm a retired dry cleaner , the amount of people that use to have the sleeve label on their jackets is quite funny . I was often offering to snip if for them as it was just there for the shop etc but I was quite often told off ! Loads of people left the stitches in coats and jackets !!

Sales assistants in clothes shops often wear the clothes to 'advertise' them. Hence leaving sleeve labels etc on.

I get irrationally annoyed by vent tacks too. I also leave the pocket tacks in though for the line.

Although my gigantic boobs fuck that up anyway!!

As a teacher I see lots of y7 boys at the start of the year with the 2 vents at the back of their blazer still with the big cross stitch in to keep them closed when in the shop 😁

BIL had his sleeve label on his suit on his wedding day. I told him he needed to remove it but he wouldn't let me. He said how would people know how expensive his suit was if they couldn't see the brand.

Ha! That's a coincidence - I was reading this blog post a couple of days ago, and noticed on the back-view picture that she's forgotten to unpick the stitch at the bottom of the pleat!

It makes the coat hang very strangely. I wonder if she realises?

Omg I am so glad I'm not the only person that is annoyed by this! I see folk all the time walking around with it still sewn up-it does my head in!

Just gone out for the night with new coat. Didn't unpick the pockets. The regret is strong.

Ah well, pockets, you can be forgiven, goinglocomoto. If you don't unpick the pockets you often make a coat look better, not worse (see also trousers and skirts).

But the tack at the back? Noooo.