How to Make a Shooting Pocket (Bespoke Bellows Pocket On a Side Body) | Guide to a Bespoke Suit

This is a bellow pocket. It's a sample you can make that will improve your sewing ability before making a jacket or trouser. I am making as though it were on a jacket with a belly dart. Again it’ll make more sense when you make a jacket with a sidebody. With a side body we end up with a precut pocket line in the jacket where the pocket should be anyway, so this is only for future reference; I suggest you make your sample on a plain rectangle of cloth. Although you could make up a double welted pocket opening and put a flap for you pocket into that to ‘hide’ the dart. Also ​​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RI8x6OU2Xs “Steed - are back on youtube” lmao. Drops one video after 4 years and leaves wtf? However it’s an alternative demonstartion of the same pocket if you want it. Trimmings Cloth to put the pocket onto Fabric for the pocket Silecia for the pocket Linen to act as a stay for the pocket If you are confused at any point look through this playlist, ask a question in the comments or PM me on IG. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPXf7sROHfVsQqL218SZ-LgmoTv_pScyd https://www.instagram.com/thecaffeinatedtailor/ Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 0:56 - Cutting the pocket 3:10 - Cutting lining 4:15 - Machining the pieces 5:54 - Pressing the pieces The Pocket 9:08 The lining 9:53 - Applying the lining 10:35 - Sewing down the pocket facing 13:20 - Closing the belly dart (only when you have a side body) 15:52 - Applying the pocket 18:04 - Finishing