HOF: What Are You Wearing Right Now - Part IV (starting May 2014)

[mktitsworth]

Nope - just a ‘hard three’ button suit.
All mine are like that around 20 suits and around 20 odd jackets. The style comes and goes but was very much the trend in the sixties when FM’s suit was made.

Ah. I see the third button now.

 

[FlyingMonkey]

Nope - just a ‘hard three’ button suit.
All mine are like that around 20 suits and around 20 odd jackets. The style comes and goes but was very much the trend in the sixties when FM’s suit was made.

Indeed. It's funny because when I had suits made for me the tailor was insistent that my height meant that a one-button jacket was best, but I think find that both the hard 3 and 3-roll-2 work for me if the cut is right. The other one I have of this vintage is a grey DB and both are cut without vents as was the style at the time. That shouldn't work either according to accepted wisdom, but it does!

 

[Thin White Duke]

Indeed. It's funny because when I had suits made for me the tailor was insistent that my height meant that a one-button jacket was best, but I think find that both the hard 3 and 3-roll-2 work for me if the cut is right. The other one I have of this vintage is a grey DB and both are cut without vents as was the style at the time. That shouldn't work either according to accepted wisdom, but it does!

Yeah I’ve always been a bit suspicious of some of those conventions. “Short guys should wear stripes and not have turnups on their strides to elongate their stature” etc. It may work in theory, or in photographs but if I’m standing next to a fella and I can see the top of his head or if you’re Tom Cruise on the red carpet with Nicole Kidman, no amount of tailoring tricks is going to fix that!
I thought your jacket might be ventless as are almost all of mine. In most cases I had them closed by my alterations tailor. That was seen as heresy by some on here back in the day but there are a few reasons and influences:
1. Might be a throw back to the eighties style which was in vogue when I was a lad
2. Cary Grant in NXNW, Connery in Thunderball - two of my all time favorite suits, nary a vent in sight!
3. I don’t put my hands in my pockets so the access issue is a non issue for me
4. I like the look of an unbroken sea of cloth from neck to hem, seen on a lot of those wide shouldered DB suits worn in films noir in the 40s
5. I hate the look of poorly tailored vents either gaping open at the sides or flapping around the bum with vertical folds like a partly drawn pair of curtains.

 

[ericgereghty]

I took the opportunity of Halloween to dress up in costume as 'Me how I would like to dress on a daily basis.' the rub here is that my office is VERY casual and suits are as out of place on a regular
working day as demon heads.

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Fox Air 3 piece by G&N Bespoke
Shirt by Despos in 2013
Tie by Vanda at somepoint early on (I don't remember!)
Square by Vanda at some later point
Shoes by St. Crispins (see that thread for more.)

Not a fan of the details of the suit, but man that cloth fawks!

 

[mktitsworth]

Not a fan of the details of the suit, but man that cloth fawks!

Right? That's why I bought it and I totally get that the details are not everyone's cup of tea - that was sort of on purpose. I wanted to choose details that played with the relative formality and required some technical execution that might not line up with established norms.

Which detains specifically don't sit with you?

 

[ericgereghty]

Right? That's why I bought it and I totally get that the details are not everyone's cup of tea - that was sort of on purpose. I wanted to choose details that played with the relative formality and required some technical execution that might not line up with established norms.

Which detains specifically don't sit with you?

Purely preference, obviously, but definitely don't like the clash (albeit intentional) of casual triple patches with formal SBPL styling.

 

[mktitsworth]

Purely preference, obviously, but definitely don't like the clash (albeit intentional) of casual triple patches with formal SBPL styling.

You're 100% right. That clash was explicitly part of why I did it that way - because it's something you have to know to notice. Most of the world will never notice that detail, but on it's first outing here, it was noticed by this community. I feel validated. Thank you for pointing that out. You made my day.