For this jacket I made patch pockets using the original pattern pieces.  The upper pocket pattern piece was not quite symmetrical, which I found curiously appealing.  Fusible hair canvas in fronts.  Bound buttonholes. This wool is actually shades of mossy greens, bought for a song at the Textile Center of Minnesota's annual Fabric Garage Sale.  It was fun to use fabric from someone else's stash to make up this vintage-pattern garment.

The vent actually does hang straight, on me.  This dress form is a bit too big.  Alas, no vented sleeves on this one: I zealously mitered both sides and thus there was no overlap!  So I slipstitched the sleeves closed.   

Vintage pattern, McCall 4065, from 1941