Gumshoe Sweatercoat inspiration and Burda

After seeing this Gumshoe Sweatercoat in the recent Anthropologie catalog, I felt inspired to hop on over to my fabric chain store and buy some anti-pill, purple fleece and Simplicity pattern 2508. Well, it turns out the $1.99 Simplicity pattern sale ended yesterday, so I took my fleece and headed home to look through my Burda patterns. I have the 2 latest Burda magazines, but have never used a Burda pattern, so I could use a good excuse to give it a shot.
Before getting home to the Burda patterns, I added a via point: Anthro for a real life Gumshoe Sweatercoat sighting. They had the purple version, plus a black one and an orange one. The medium was too small in the shoulders, but the large was too large (and low) in the waist. The felted wool was thinner than I expected, plus the jacket had no lining. The button holes appeared to be pulled out of shape by the large buttons; the thin wool without a lining couldn’t really support the buttonholes well.

I liked the princess seams and the stitched waist detailing. With ruffles on both sides of the center front and pleated ruffles at the cuffs, I think it could be a fun sewing project.
After getting home, I found a Burda Short Jacket (#102) pattern in the September 2009 issue that will be a good baseline for my purple fleece jacket. Now I need to find some tissue paper and try to figure out how to do this Burda thing.