Stitchin' in My Kitchen

All I want to sew for fall/winter is jeans and blazers and jackets . I'm skirted-out, I guess.  I came across this photo a while back while checking out one of my favorite sites and really loved the entire look. I just love the long jacket over casual jeans and a t-shirt, and decided I wanted to make something similar.  Even though I think the bold stripe on that jacket is kind of what makes it, I decided to use some of the many yards of wool suiting I already had in my stash before trying to find a similar fabric.  I pulled 2 yards of this wool suiting from Mood out of my stash and some coordinating Bemberg rayon for the lining. I searched Etsy for a pattern I could use and come up with this gem from 1979: Oh yes.  Interestingly, they don't give you the yardage needed for just the long jacket - it's assumed you will make a jacket-skirt combo.  The 2 yards I had was just enough for the long version of the jacket.  The pattern was a size 12, bus...