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[jay]

Jumping the gun on Christmas, and inspired by the costumes at the Dickens Fair, I placed a couple of successful eBay bids and wound up with some new finery...



Here's the same make of dinner jacket, with white satin lapels:



And here's an example of my charcoal cutaway tailcoat, with striped trousers:



the coat goes halfway down my thighs, in back. Both will need alterations to fit well... to be let out in the back vertical seam. Otherwise, I'd be tempted to wear the dinner jacket on New Year's Eve...