TCMfan25
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I guess you've probably seen it before.
John Kent is a currently active Savile Row tailor, so that one is almost certainly from the last two or three decades. The cloth may be Solaro, a summer fabric "A solaro is achieved by weaving a classically toned warp with an intensely coloured, acidic weft creating an opulent, coloured fabric, which in some light appears iridescent."
I was under the impression that Solaro was a relatively recent offering in the trade, as I hadn't heard of it before a few years ago, but I just found a reference to a Solaro cloth in a 1907 medical journal. No idea if it's the same stuff.
Got this one a while back, in almost mint condition and in my size, it's labelled as a Burtons(not seen this label before c 1970's?) but the label appears to have another set of holes around/underneath it pointing to it once having a label over? or one removed?
It's a 40-42" R(big 40 tight-ish but fastenable 42") I really like it but there's just a bit too much padding in the shoulders for me, in fact on me it looks almost 'zoot suit'-ish.