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  1. Dirk Wainscotting

    The Thread to Display Your 1930s Suits

    Quite excellent, especially the three-piece. The blue step lapel has a bit of shine on it; did someone previously go a bit mad with the iron?
  2. Dirk Wainscotting

    New to this - Looking for advice

    The yarns may be tightly woven, but the cloth not always so. These thin 'hard' cloths, if they are made of wool (and they usually are) breathe perfectly well. A thick cloth, even with a more open weave still tends to be warmer. Think of the warmth from a jumper (trui) even when the knit is quite...
  3. Dirk Wainscotting

    The summer wardrobe

    Love that boating blazer, and the DB(?) linen jacket. Could a donegal tweed and heavyweight trousers really be a summer outfit?
  4. Dirk Wainscotting

    Show Us Vintage GERMAN Suits

    Unusual piece (though maybe more common at the time). How did you date it? To me it looks like the 50s in terms of the look and silhouette.
  5. Dirk Wainscotting

    The End of the Era ...

    Cathode ray tubes are still manufactured and designed. Here's one specialised company.
  7. Dirk Wainscotting

    What do you use to shave?

    For a full-beard shave? I've never known a disposable last a year; a year's worth of bum-fluff maybe if it's used once a month. And is it worth all the unclogging?
  8. Dirk Wainscotting

    The End of the Era ...

    This is both true and somewhat false. It's true that the period post-war up to the late 1960s was a technological leap - much of it generated from necessity during the war and later one-upmanship of the cold war - but it's easy to fall into the trap of thinking that it has all disappeared into a...
  9. Dirk Wainscotting

    How to Sell Customized Suits Online?

    I'm sure you'll tell us all with the other account you've made (or are about to make). The answer is the software you've been trying to flog by the devious means of pretending to be a tailor looking for a solution. I can quote your IP address too, since the same one is attached to several names...
  10. Dirk Wainscotting

    Show us your suits

    Dare I say the backs of the sleeves are a bit messy?
  11. Dirk Wainscotting

    What do you use to shave?

    What do you use to process the photos?
  13. Dirk Wainscotting

    Formal Wear Primer

    It's a gamble. I imagine that 99.9% of the people around you (those who don't frequent this forum at any rate) wouldn't know the difference. You could tell them that it's correct to have the trousers in slightly different cloth and they would believe you. The only misfortune wold be running into...
  14. Dirk Wainscotting

    New to this - Looking for advice

    I assumed that Oxxford still cut and stitched their suits by hand? I have to say I don't know what Kiton and Brioni actually do. Kiton's website says they run a tailoring school, yet their clothes are made in a 'factory'. The only example I've ever seen in person is an Oxxford suit and it...
  15. Dirk Wainscotting

    New to this - Looking for advice

    I have no argument with you on the superiority of well-made canvassed garments, the questions that I asked are these: 1. What is the likelihood that having internalised the 'canvassed is better' idea, that a fairly large number of people without the means to drop a lot of money on a bespoke...
  16. Dirk Wainscotting

    New to this - Looking for advice

    I'm afraid you've ignored the central issue: that most of these machine-made canvases are barely better than a well-fused coat. The word 'canvas' is now like catnip to the Styleforum crew. Mentioning 'glue' gives the false impression that it is stiff or liable to fall apart in a week, but this...
  17. Dirk Wainscotting

    New to this - Looking for advice

    Canvassing a coat properly, in the way the aficionados want it, is not a process that lends itself to cost-cutting (unless it is being made by slave labour). I don't want to harp on about this, so I will just say that there are now many aspects of bespoke work that have been latched onto by...
  19. Dirk Wainscotting

    New to this - Looking for advice

    I don't think a coat with a floating canvas has that much effect on cooling at all. In some ways you could argue that the 'open' layers would retain heat better. It has a layer of wadding in the chest in both cases anyway. I also don't think it has a noticeably better effect upon "drape" either...
  20. Dirk Wainscotting

    What happened to small towns?

    I'm sometimes (actually always) puzzled by the social mindset that sees expensive home-ownership as part of the dream of freedom when the loss of such an asset is so often in the wings, at the mercy of an economic structure that can separate you from it with relative ease. All it takes is...
  21. Dirk Wainscotting

    Show us your British suits

    Apart from the waistcoat back falling apart it's a pretty excellent example. Much better without permanent turn-ups.
  22. Dirk Wainscotting

    Show us your British suits

    Ha! That loud checked number is excellent. I'd wear it immediately. There's not much chance of being upstaged by anyone.
  23. Dirk Wainscotting

    Stafford JC Penney Brand ?

    I just can't imagine not having shirt cuffs in my jacket sleeves. Well, I can imagine it, but it's a disturbing thought. The last time I wore a blazer with something short-sleeved under it, I was walking home from school sports day and wore my school blazer over my P.E. kit. Not a particularly...

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