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Linen Suit - where to find a good one...
You are in the U.S. so I might not be able to recommend anything with easy access from where I am, but you might try Suit Supply (which I believe has a presence in the U.S.)? Their range is not all narrow lapels and Charlie Chaplin jacket tightness. They als carry a good range of linen colours...- Dirk Wainscotting
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- Forum: Suits
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About tweed suits...
The problem is "thorn proof" is not any sort of trademark, so anyone can make a heavyish wool suit and call it "thornproof" and thus garner all the associations of old-world country pursuits in heavy tweed.- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #12
- Forum: Suits
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About tweed suits...
Mixed with what? "Thorn proof" tweed is just a tighter twisted yarn and a more solid weave; sometimes of mixed weight yarns. It's still 100% wool.- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #10
- Forum: Suits
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About tweed suits...
If it isn't all wool, then it isn't Tweed, because Tweed is always made of wool. Any percentage under is just a wool blend. There is a tendency to refer to any cloth that looks like woollens (which really means 'not worsted') as 'tweed', but the two can be miles apart. This doesn't mean that...- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #8
- Forum: Suits
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Reversible Fedora?
This might seem like a naive question, but what is the point in reversing it?- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #5
- Forum: Hats
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Show off the sports coats.
The vintage Burton stuff is always extremely well made. They used good quality, heavyweight bemberg linings, rather than the papery rubbish you so often see today.- Dirk Wainscotting
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- Forum: Suits
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Show us your suits
That would mean wearing sportswear (gah!)- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #5,530
- Forum: Suits
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Show us your suits
I think a two-button coat would suit you better.- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #5,528
- Forum: Suits
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What sparked your fascination with the "Golden Era"?
It's hard to tell whether it's exposure or just a matter of taste: I'm the grandson of a tailor so I saw the clothes up close; days off school, ill in bed watching films from the '30s, 40s or '50s; I'm from a rather small hamlet where life hadn't moved on much from the '50s anyway. Someone could...- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #255
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Do Men Hate Women's Hats?
I think many men like women in hats, but don't like sitting behind them at the cinema (now as in the golden era). My second to last ex-girlfriend regularly wore hats - mostly a beret - and my recent ex wore hats too, including a lovely plum-coloured cloche hat. Maybe if I can get with a girl...- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #29
- Forum: The Front Parlor
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Berets, Anyone?
Sorry, I couldn't help it. This mistaken adverb needs to disappear.- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #1,110
- Forum: Hats
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Post New Hats Here!
This was passed on to me as a freebie yesterday. Perhaps a 1/8 or 1/4 inch too small, but just passable. It's the only light-coloured felt hat I have. Made by (or sold as) Helios. I've never heard of it before:- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #28,693
- Forum: Hats
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I suit therefore I am.
What a lot of people here (me included) wear is merely the fashion of yesteryear. At the time it performed much the same function as regular fashions do now. I'm sure there are people who have the same cultural memory of people dressing in suits or jacket and trousers, but don't want to emulate...- Dirk Wainscotting
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- Forum: Suits
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Which Presidents Wore Hats>?
Is it an 'asshat'. Sorry, couldn't resist. It's a nice hat.- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #210
- Forum: Hats
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Suits - Pre 1920
We know already that advertising material is not always a fair guide to what was actually made and worn. The styles cut during the 1900-1925 period do include so-called "young men's trousers" with a rise an inch (often only 1/2 an inch) shorter than the standard, but the 'standard' had a fairly...- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #509
- Forum: Suits
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Post New Hats Here!
I rather dislike the overdone "hat sprezzatura" with bumps and bashes all over the place. I don't want a hat to look like a piece of factory shaped plastic, but also not like a hat that has accidentally been sat on. I particularly don't care for the messy manipulation of the top crown. I...- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #28,638
- Forum: Hats
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STOP "repurposing". PLEASE!
A problem is that some people making these industrially will use cheaper modern hats, but some cash-strapped "artist(s)" will buy up vintage stock to replicate it on the cheap. I've already seen old glass wash-room soap dispenser globes spoiled in the name of 'upcycling' nonsense. Those people...- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #12
- Forum: Hats
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Post New Hats Here!
Nice Tyrolean style hat. The rope trim is far more fitting to this hat. A ribbon will make just another velour hat, imho of course. I have one of these velours (Austrian or German) and the rope is almost 2 inches high. I wear it to annoy my girlfriend when we go out and she forces me to go to...- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #28,620
- Forum: Hats
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How do folks react to your hat wearing?
I've been wearing hats for years, so a lot of people are accustomed to seeing me with one. I get looks in other places: train stations, the odd party (I've stopped wearing hats to parties, the uncouth types of party don't have proper cloakroom facilities:rolleyes:). I'm not much interested if...- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #1,167
- Forum: Hats
