The Baste Pocket Jacket is named after a tailor’s baste- the first rough fitting for a bespoke garment. To allow for maximum alterations for custom clothes, wide inlays are left on the panels at first, and these are folded in and loosely sewn with baste stitches, using a soft easily-broken thread called ‘baste’. After a fitting these inlays are cut away and the garment is eventually finished.

The Baste Pocket jacket is cut with long straight front panels, lined all the way down with cotton calico, which are then folded up to form a pocket, and back at the fronts to form a cutaway, like the basted front of a bespoke waistcoat.