Casablanca Suit

[Mojave Jack]

What exactly is pick stitching?

And Root, 42L, 34w x 34l... And since you're so close, I'll be glad to swing down and pick up the tab for dinner to sweeten the deal! Not just Rod's either, buddy!

 

[Wild Root]

Wow! So much has happened since I posted this last night! Such interesting reading.

Root, thank you so much, my good man! I will even suspend my aversion to wearing another man's suit!

I am not shy about my size: 44L, 38 X 32 legs.

Oh, so you were against wearing vintage? Well, I'll tell ya this, you'll find that the comfort and drape of a vintage suit will impress you so much more that you'll end up cursing my name!lol It's hard to find that size but, I know most of the suits I find in that size are single breasted.

Yes, I started to notice that it is a three button... I have a few three button suits... they're my favorite single breasted style.

It is a drape suit!

 

[Matt Deckard]

I don't know... I'm just a fan of the three button myself. As I lose weight it looks better and better on my frame. It's the vertical line. Two button suits to me just don't give enough closure.

I think I like the two button better when they were making them in the late 50's James Bond, Jmmy Stewart, Cary Grant suits of that era are really really beautifully and extremely well tailored for a nice drape.

 

[Hemingway Jones]

Oh, so you were against wearing vintage? Well, I'll tell ya this, you'll find that the comfort and drape of a vintage suit will impress you so much more that you'll end up cursing my name!lol It's hard to find that size but, I know most of the suits I find in that size are single breasted.

If I think about someone else wearing something, it freaks me out! I am trying to get over it, but I would need to clean things a few times before I would wear them. Currently, I have nothing vintage, except for hats that were never worn, but I have an open mind.

 

[scotrace]

That suit in Casablanca pictured above is why I bought the Linejn cotton suit I have from J. Peterman... just looks like a 1940's summer suit with wider lapels.

Plain white shirt and black tie or dark striped tie with a khaki suit and you have the Casablanca look.

I was searching for your pictures in that suit earlier today. Is that the one they have up now?

 

[Wild Root]

If I think about someone else wearing something, it freaks me out! I am trying to get over it, but I would need to clean things a few times before I would wear them. Currently, I have nothing vintage, except for hats that were never worn, but I have an open mind.

One thing you should consider is that the items are over 60 years old... if there was anything living in them, they're dead nowlol Nothing a good dry-cleaning couldn't fix!

VIVA LA VINTAGE!

=WR=

 

[Daisy Buchanan]

I just wanted to say, that from the pictures of you all that I have seen, and those of you I've met, you all have great taste, and look very handsome in your vintage and vintage repro suits.

 

[Zach R.]

If I think about someone else wearing something, it freaks me out! I am trying to get over it, but I would need to clean things a few times before I would wear them. Currently, I have nothing vintage, except for hats that were never worn, but I have an open mind.

Don't jinx it! It might come back to bite you in the rear(literally and figuratively).

 

[Daisy Buchanan]

Don't jinx it! It might come back to bite you in the rear(literally and figuratively).

HAHA! I live with Hem, he's very worried about the vintage clothes I bring in the house. He makes me send them right to the cleaners, even if the seller has told me that they have just been cleaned. As for a bite in the butt, that's not from the vintage suits, it's my psychotic kitty cat, Mielys, she's the biter of the family. Argh, Chomp, yum, Timmy Tooshy

 

[Hemingway Jones]

Don't jinx it! It might come back to bite you in the rear(literally and figuratively).

Too true, my good friend. I cannot tell you how many times I have opened hat boxes at vintage stores and pulled out beautiful hats that were chewed by moths! I am terrified of moths!

 

[scotrace]

Chomp, yum, Timmy Tooshy

Bwuhahahaha! lol lol

 

[Hemingway Jones]

Must I endure this abuse!

 

[Wild Root]

I'm here for ya buddy.

=WR=

 

[Hemingway Jones]

Thanks Pal!

 

[dr greg]

dame?

And a fine interplay between the tie and the top the dame is wearing; even with the roof of the market stalls
That ain't no dame buddy, unless I am mistaken, that looks a lot like a VERY young Lauren Bacall, which might explain the grin on Bogey's dial.

 

["Doc" Devereux]

That ain't no dame buddy, unless I am mistaken, that looks a lot like a VERY young Lauren Bacall, which might explain the grin on Bogey's dial.

It might look like Bacall, but the lady in question is actually the luminous Ingrid Bergman.

That is Miss Bacall with Bogie by the train, though.

 

[dr greg]

mixup

I did mean the one by the train

 

[Shaul-Ike Cohen]

Bogie is wearing a "drape" suit. Note the vertical draping at the chest:

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Well, the vertical draping occurs has been seen with non-drape suits, too, hasn't it, when left unbuttoned.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Well, the vertical draping occurs has been seen with non-drape suits, too, hasn't it, when left unbuttoned.

especially when the jacket is too big for the wearer (drape)!

And a fine interplay between the tie and the top the dame is wearing; even with the roof of the market stalls
That ain't no dame buddy, unless I am mistaken, that looks a lot like a VERY young Lauren Bacall, which might explain the grin on Bogey's dial.

Dame sounded a bit more like what Bogie would have called her in that movie. I chose the word carefully.

bk

 

[herringbonekid]

Hem, Dana Andrews wears a very similar suit in 'Laura', slightly darker...

( thanks for the screen grab advice. need more practice ! )