SPIER & MACKAY - Official Affiliate Thread

[hpreston]

Love wearing the brown cord suit as separates — today in the ecru OCBD and brown cord trousers.

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Looks great!

Drakes cotton flannel overshirt?

 

[yungchomsky]

Looks great!

Drakes cotton flannel overshirt?

?

 

[2942]

Restock the penny loafers, please.

 

[vriche]

For those of you who ordered MTO shirts and requested for the fabrics to be pre-washed to alleviate shrinkage (pause), do you find that it actually works?

 

[The_International]

I’m also curious to know people’s take on this. I just placed my first order for three MTO shirts and requested the fabrics be pre-washed before cutting.

 

[ahtynes]

It's obviously hard to know for certain, but I've generally found minimal to no shrinking when I wash new shirts and I always ask for washing before cutting.

 

[Torzano]

Full canvas grey suit ordered. Hard to say no to something so special at such a great price.

 

[FlyingHorker]

Love wearing the brown cord suit as separates — today in the ecru OCBD and brown cord trousers.
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Interesting, looks like plum on my computer screen. Still looks great.

For those of you who ordered MTO shirts and requested for the fabrics to be pre-washed to alleviate shrinkage (pause), do you find that it actually works?

Based on the fabrics I've ordered, yes.

I've bought 2 linen shirts and 1 herringbone shirt.

I've had 0 shrinkage.

All cold wash, hang dry.

 

[vriche]

It's obviously hard to know for certain, but I've generally found minimal to no shrinking when I wash new shirts and I always ask for washing before cutting.

Based on the fabrics I've ordered, yes.

I've bought 2 linen shirts and 1 herringbone shirt.

I've had 0 shrinkage.

All cold wash, hang dry.

Thanks, guys!

 

[Superfluous]

Full canvas grey suit ordered. Hard to say no to something so special at such a great price.

Special? ?

 

[Eli Curt]

I think DieWorkwear has written a lot about this and the answer is basically “no?” As I understand it the modern “Neapolitan cut” is just characterized by a wider lapel, more open quarters, and a soft or unpadded shoulder with pleating in some form (camicia, morbida, insellata, rollino, rigatoni, whatever). But things like lapel shape, gorge height, shoulder extension seem to vary wildly. And my understanding is that the previous comments about earlier Neapolitan jackets (eg Attolini, Rubinacci Sr.) having a more standard lapel width are basically correct: in the 1950s(?) Attolini et al just took the more modest English jacket and ripped all the padding and guts out of it to suit their environment.

Still, I think the Neo cut that Spier produces is closer to Florence. I’ve only ever seen that intense negative belly paired with the hard 3r2.5 on Florentine jackets. I’d guess the “Neapolitan” association comes from Ciongoli’s Eidos (owned by Naples-based Isaia) jacket patterns, which are just riffs on Liverano.

I don’t profess to be an expert on this ****, but that’s my reading.

I have this on a couple of my Sartoria Partenopea jackets.

I also don't know that I agree with your entire premise. I mean, yes, different houses can have very different defining traits but I don't think they're incongruous with each other.

 

[induere_to]

I sense a theme:

Harris Tweed MTM arrivals:

Too warm for Houston, maybe; but up here we love this stuff.

 

[ElliotG]

I sense a theme:

Harris Tweed MTM arrivals:

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Too warm for Houston, maybe; but up here we love this stuff.

Those are some fine looking coats. How well will a belly as negative as the second coat's hold up over time, assuming infrequent drycleaning by a skilled tradesman?

 

[FlyingHorker]

I sense a theme:

Harris Tweed MTM arrivals:

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Too warm for Houston, maybe; but up here we love this stuff.

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is action-back possible for MTO or nah?

 

[sargeinaz]

Love that second MTM