Unfunded Liabilities: a/k/a The Cloth Thread

[sprout2]

I've just looked at the range of solid herringbones in the Moonbeam bunch and I think I want all of them. Do you have any particular favorites?

 

[venividivicibj]

I like some of the windowpanes better. But that is a great bunch.

 

[sprout2]

Don't care for windowpanes much, but I do like the spongey quality of these. Which windowpanes in particular do you like?

 

[Axelman 17]

I have the navy with red windowpane made up from NSM and the brown with blue windowpane from Ercoles. I highly recommend both. I think they are the right balance of subtlety vs assertiveness which is hard to find in windowpanes.

 

[venividivicibj]



Don't care for windowpanes much, but I do like the spongey quality of these. Which windowpanes in particular do you like?

 

[Andy57]

I have the navy with red windowpane made up from NSM and the brown with blue windowpane from Ercoles. I highly recommend both. I think they are the right balance of subtlety vs assertiveness which is hard to find in windowpanes.

I also have the navy with red windowpane. I highly, highly recommend it. It looks good and it feels remarkably fine.

 

[sprout2]

I would entertain the idea with some fit pics, guys!
No love for solid herringbone?

 

[Odd I/O]

I'm looking to get a sport jacket made for the colder fall/winter/spring months, are cloths from the Moonbeam bunch suitable for this? MyTailor.com will be coming to my neck of the woods soon and I'm wondering is I should ask them to bring that book along with stuff from W.Bill.

Also, if anyone can recommend more mid-range options for this purpose I'd appreciate that. The Canadian dollar is a daily horror show right now.

 

[RogerC]

I've always been a big fan of the Hardy Lambswool collection.

 

[hirschlederne]



No, but it makes a fine tent...

I doubt that, wool isn't waterproof and it'll probably stretch. Maybe if you invested in 100 % polyester cloth

 

[SimonC]



I doubt that, wool isn't waterproof and it'll probably stretch. Maybe if you invested in 100 % polyester cloth

It was a joke but I do have an overcoat length of Loro Piana Storm System...

 

[Knox]

Abacus is one of the better Smith books. Ever. Calls to mind the old H. Lesser 9.5/10 plain weave.

I thought the greys in the Abacus book were long gone, never to be replenished. Is there an updated version of Abacus?

edit: The Harrisons LBD person claims Frontier is similar to the Lesser 9.5/10. I disagree. Abacus is much closer to the Lesser, and Harrisons would do well to approximate the 9.5/10 yarn and weave it up into a few solids and stripes. Maybe the best of all the plain weave cloths I've encountered.

 

[lordsuperb]

Is anyone willing to give up their London lounge city gunclub?

 

[jerrybrowne]



Is anyone willing to give up their London lounge city gunclub?

which one?

 

[lordsuperb]



which one?