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  1. Dirk Wainscotting

    Stafford JC Penney Brand ?

    Polo shirt with a coat? Is that a polo shirt like a tennis shirt? That seems like an awful combination to me. Concerning the button issue, you can just clip the buttons off and sew better ones on.
  2. Dirk Wainscotting

    Tweed Suit Advice

    Getting married in a tweed suit seems a bit odd to me.
  3. Dirk Wainscotting

    Natty Shirts, you're the best!

    Is it in a rented room at Claridges? My home workshop only cost €2000 to set up.
  4. Dirk Wainscotting

    Budget A-1 jacket

    Goatskin? Probably made from dead cats. I don't want to imagine the conditions these are made under, for the goats or the workers.
  5. Dirk Wainscotting

    Running amuck w/ Palm Beach Linen!

    Vive la soleil!
  7. Dirk Wainscotting

    This suit's material?

    No doubt worsted wool; (urquhart) glen check. Impossible to state a price. It depends upon the tailor, the quality of the cloth used and the process.
  8. Dirk Wainscotting

    How long has it been...

    I have several pairs of trousers I wear in winter (mostly about the house) which are very heavy. They are old though. Two of them were made in the mid 1950s. Not many people want to go through the trouble of any cleaning that doesn't involve throwing garments into a washing machine, so proper...
  9. Dirk Wainscotting

    Show us your vintage home!

    The real estate market in the U.S. has apparently benefited from the Brexit vote. There was a report about it on the BBC news website.
  10. Dirk Wainscotting

    How long has it been...

    You can buy a heavy suit, but not in the regular shops. Lighter cloth is the order of the day and will probably remain so for as long as people have central heating in their houses (and everywhere else!). In RTW you now see suits being sold as separate trousers/jackets units, though of the same...
  11. Dirk Wainscotting

    Suit vests of one fabric (no silk/polyester back)?

    The backs of waistcoats are not specifically 'polyester'; it is lining that could be made of viscose (bemberg in older suits), cotton or silk. The use of lining for the back is to reduce bulk under the jacket, and (traditionally) because the jacket hardly came off and so it wasn't worth using...
  13. Dirk Wainscotting

    Keeping ants out of your house-

    I have six ants nests in the garden currently and they're a bloody nuisance. There are constant piles of displaced sand from between the bricks. I'm expecting one day to put a deckchair on there and collapse into a big hole when I sit on it.
  14. Dirk Wainscotting

    Remove wrinkles from silk sport coat, advice, please

    Use a press cloth (lint-free tea towel if you have nothing else) over garment as you press. Use a sleeve board or rolled-up towel as a pressing-ham to press areas so you don't press in more wrinkles. Take your time. Don't get it too wet. Whatever you do, don't engage in the 'hanging in steamy...
  15. Dirk Wainscotting

    BOTH SIDES OF THE TWEED! - Show us your tweed suits, sport coats and pants

    Says who? It refers to the origin.
  16. Dirk Wainscotting

    New to this - Looking for advice

    Ask yourself how often you want to wear a suit. Anyone not accustomed to wearing suits needs only two of them for a start, if that (depending as well on the climate you live in): Blue/grey or a blue and a lighter suit (cream or beige) for hotter climates. Both solid colours. The rest should be...
  17. Dirk Wainscotting

    Sport coat and jeans??

    M&S sell good ready-to-wear linen trousers. You can wash linen without problems (hand-wash even better). It's hardy cloth. Wearing pure white is never going to easy. There's no magic solution to avoiding stains and marks in wear, but washing properly shouldn't produce problems. Yellowing of...
  19. Dirk Wainscotting

    Sport coat and jeans??

    The thing is 'tweed' has rapidly become a word used to describe any 'fuzzy-looking wool cloth' and sometimes it isn't even wool, or a natural fibre at all! When I'm at cloth markets, rather than the specialist merchants, it's common to be offered flannel, or even knitted cloth, marked as...
  20. Dirk Wainscotting

    Sport coat and jeans??

    Tweed is not a weave; the cloth has a twilled weave. It's the just the nature of the non-combed wool yarns that produce the characteristic cloth. There's no such thing as a linen and silk 'tweed' (even though people refer to it around the net). If it's not wool, the resulting cloth is something...
  21. Dirk Wainscotting

    Sport coat and jeans??

    Ever seen the Man in the White Suit? Tip: don't go out in the rain like Alec Guinness does.
  22. Dirk Wainscotting

    Sport coat and jeans??

    I think the solution might be not to wear tweed with linen.
  23. Dirk Wainscotting

    Sport coat and jeans??

    Tweed is indeed superior and when worn with real trousers, rather than workman's trousers, even better.

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