Linen suit experiment

[RobStC]

If you start counting where the digit connects to the hand, every finger BUT the thumb has two additional joints. Thumbs only have one, that's what makes them special. I can imagine the first knuckle (where the thumb attaches to the hand) and the second knuckle (the only other joint on the thumb), but I am mystified as to the location of the third one.

Could you clarify?

Presumably a reference to the joint between the metacarpal bone on the thumb side of the hand (which often moves as the 'thumb' is articulated) and the carpals at the wrist. So not technically a phalanx of the thumb at all , but certainly part of the functional articulation of the thumb side of the hand.....

A bit like the clavicle not usually being included as part of the arm (conventionally seen as starting at the gleno-humeral joint), but the clavicle clearly forming part of the articulation system for movement of the upper limb in certain directions of movement.

Clear as mud??

RobStC

(And don't let's start discussing in any detail whether the hyoid is actually a bone or just a lump of gristle that acts like a bone , otherwise we'll be here all day!!!)

 

[Baron Kurtz]

I'll be posting my own thread about the trousers I had made, but I thought I'd chuck a couple of pics up here for comparison. (It must be admitted that my tailor had an original pair of 30s trousers to work from so was at something of an advantage over the OPs tailor.) Crappy iMac camera pics, and I'd just picked them up and didn't have any suspenders, so they're not hanging right.

At the price I paid (£30 for the work, £30 for the fabric), a solid dose of "get what you pay for" is inevitable, but he did exceptionally well. The vast majority of the details I pointed out to him are faithfully rendered. My thread will have detailed comparison pictures of these and the originals. They are made up in approximately 9 Oz linen. I have enough fabric to get a jacket made up too, as and when I find someone with proven ability to reproduce faithfully at a price-point I can afford.

bk

 

[Creeping Past]

At £60 plus travel costs, it's a bloody miracle!

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Not too much travel cost, neever. I live in the east end as does my tailor chappie, about 30 minutes door to door if i catch the trains lucky.

He doesn't do jackets :eusa_doh:

bk

 

[Talbot]

:eusa_clap :eusa_clap

 

[Qirrel]

Try having some made in heavier linen, it is my experience that it is easier to make a trouser that drapes nicely with the added weight.

 

[cookie]

Presumably a reference to the joint between the metacarpal bone on the thumb side of the hand (which often moves as the 'thumb' is articulated) and the carpals at the wrist. So not technically a phalanx of the thumb at all , but certainly part of the functional articulation of the thumb side of the hand.....

A bit like the clavicle not usually being included as part of the arm (conventionally seen as starting at the gleno-humeral joint), but the clavicle clearly forming part of the articulation system for movement of the upper limb in certain directions of movement.

Clear as mud??

RobStC

(And don't let's start discussing in any detail whether the hyoid is actually a bone or just a lump of gristle that acts like a bone , otherwise we'll be here all day!!!)

Do you bulk bill?