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

[Mr Knightley]

@Roy Al your recent report on your London trip reminded me of this for some reason:

http://www.englishcut.com/archives/000016.html

'If you can't afford bespoke'

Wonder if he would still give the same advice today?

 

[TweedyProf]

Four pattern fit, if elephants count as a pattern. This, apparently, is the last one of this Vanda silk/wool GP. Thanks @Mr. Six for help scoring it.

 

[ericgereghty]

@Roy Al I can't get over just how high you go with your pants. It's fantastic

 

[Cleav]

today

 

[Roy Al]

I guess not, @Mr Knightley
Tom have tried to launch his on-line MTM, but as far as I understand there has been some problems in production, and he is rather trying his in house MTM, offering three different levels of quality and price. From none to much handmade in the suit.

I also went to visit Richard Anderson, and they are probably as good as they come. Spoke to nice person. But I didn't get the feel for them. They have RTW, MTM and bespoke. No flaps on the house style jackets. Nice to see they actually work back stage in the shop; both sewing and pressing.





Shop in Savile Row, with RTW.



Tweed made for RA.



Me trying on bespoke jacket - made for other client.




Chiltern Street shop.



Inside with Karl Mattews.



Looking for lining to go with the new suit. Went for an other one.

 

[Roy Al]

@Roy Al I can't get over just how high you go with your pants. It's fantastic

Thank you. It is actually very pleasant to wear such high trousers; like being embraced.

 

[Roycru]

The King And I.



If you've ever been here, you know how cold and often windy it is here early in the morning this time of year (particularly if you are old and don't weigh very much).

Capas cap, Brooks Brothers tweed jacket, Tattersall vest, and BB#1 stripe tie, Johnstons Of Elgin scarf, L L Bean yellow OCBD shirt, exploding generic pocket square, Hebden Cord cavalry twill trousers (showing the effect of losing weight), and Bass saddle shoes.

Piece-Of-A-Person Picture taken inside (where it was warmer) early this morning and showing my watch (Hamilton 992B Railway Special) which seldom shows in my pictures.

 

[clarinetplayer]

Shrove Tuesday.

 

[SYCSYC]

Brown in town











Suit is a... SuitSupply, as usual. @An Acute Style I own 14 of them, out of 20 suits or jackets. They are mostly from the Lazio and Hudson cuts.
Shirt: Charles Tyrwhitt
Tie: Café Coton
Shoes: Meermin

 

[Gruff]

...

I posted about this awhile back, but it's time to get real: that Fedora is a train wreck on you. You look like a little boy wearing his dad's hat. I mean it's just Dark Helmet levels of huge on your head.

Other posters here pull it off very well but you need to let it go. Everytime I see that hat it just dicks up the flow of all these otherwise great fits.

 

[Tibor]

It's here to stay permanently Gruff and this fedora is my best fitting garment. If you don't like that is fine. Stop derailing the thread.

 

[doomx]

@clarinetplayer love the Barbour over sports coat look. Rocked that quite a bit this year but currently too warm for it for me.

 

[Gruff]



It's here to stay permanently Gruff and this fedora is my best fitting garment. If you don't like that is fine. Stop derailing the thread.

Suit yourself, but I can confidently tell you it doesn't fit. That hat is the only thing that derails this thread, BTW. Enjoy.

 

[EliodA]

A few random images from the 1930's (from which I believe @Tibor takes his inspiration):

Suggests to me though hats were worn tall, they weren't quite as tall as Tibor's.

 

[Tibor]

I do not take inspiration from those hats. I take inspiration from more elegant and formal fedoras of the Era which were much taller.