Show us your suits

[Dr Doran]

Recent ebay purchase. Not vintage at all (the tie is, though) but I like it. Charcoal with alternating pinstripes of khaki and white. Sorry photo is a bit large, I'll go smaller next time. Should I shorten the legs or leave them? Not really enough cloth for cuffs. This is exactly how it looked out of the box after a dry cleaning. The fit is pretty decent eh wot?

 

[PA Dancer]

It's a nice fitting suit Doran. I wouldn't touch the length.

 

[Dr Doran]

It's a nice fitting suit Doran. I wouldn't touch the length.

My laziness and cheapness is pushing me to do (or not do) exactly that.

 

[Matt Deckard]

My Thurston braces fell apart in one year. Nice nickel plated clasps, though.

Oh... they aren't that bad... they stretch out a bit and I stick with the polyester braces (silk wear out) though the felt with the extended tabs always looks better.

 

[Matt Deckard]

Just too perfect.

 

[Tomasso]

My Thurston braces fell apart in one year.

Notify Thurston through their website and they'll probably replace them. The proprietor reads every e-mail.

 

[PADDY]

New 40's DB suit.

Montague Burton 40's DB, 3pc English suit.

 

[Dr Doran]

GORGEOUS, Paddy.

 

[Jerekson]

Whoa, Paddy.

Just...

Whoa.

 

[Travis]

Whoa, Paddy.

Just...

Whoa.

My thoughts exactly. That is absolutely rakish. You're going to be fighting the gals off with sticks in that suit.

 

[Rooster]

Yo Paddy, you da man....again! great suit.:eusa_clap

 

[imoldfashioned]

Montague Burton 40's DB, 3pc English suit.

THUNK!

Oh, so sorry, I just fainted dead away at the sight of this dishy picture; don't mind me. Carry on...

 

[PADDY]

Would you like a hand..?

Dear "Pretty, youngish" and OldFashioned, that's what happens when you come into the Lounge and type 'without the aid of a safety net' to catch you Bumpity-BUMP!!!

For once (and you'll all testify out there), I'm pretty well lost for words [huh] ...

So, quickly and red-facedly.. ...'thank"you" so, so much for the kind words. I'm glad I've got something right with this 'auld suit' of mine

 

[metropd]

 

[Dr Doran]

Nice suit, Metropolitan!

 

[Matt Deckard]

Ach... Why can't the stores sell stuff like that today?

It will wear well... fits well...

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Metropd, some info on that suit please. Why do the buttons shine so?

Here're a couple that i have the miracle of Borax to thank for, and a couple of washes with a cheap-o generic oxy-clean i found in a pound shop here.

The first is a late 1930s Palm Beach DB suit that i've been looking to clean up for quite a while. it. was. filthy! Borax did for most of the dirt, and oxy clean did for the rest.

Here's a shot of the rear of the trousers before cleaning. Pretty dirty, eh?

And a close up of that really dark spot.

And here it is now . . .

Not cream coloured, but not quite white, neiver. Lovely.

Wrong time for an itchy eye . . . colour variation an illusion. The buttons shine because they're MOP.

And here's a sample of the water from the first Borax wash.

bk

 

[Baron Kurtz]

And the one i'm most glad about . . . A suit i posted quite a while. I have about $60 US in dry cleaners bills already into this suit. None of them, not even the much vaunted "vintage specialists" here in London could clean it. No match for Oxy Clean. Now to join the ranks of my wearable summer suits! This one in a tropical weight wool. Not sure of date, but strikes me as early 1930s.

Here's the picture straight from the "vintage specialist" dry cleaners. Judging from the file name i had some notion that this was 20s. I now think 30s. Chevalier? HBK? Look how bloody filthy the thighs are!

And now. It's far from perfectly clean, but it's now wearable. And i'll be ignoring the few tiny moth holes. I need to replace the buttons throughout, but i have a lovely set of green bakelite buttons culled some time ago from a very dead suit of similar era.

Front

Back

Side

And the by-now obligatory hbk shot . . .

Lining? As skeleton as i've got.

And lovely tropical weight fabric in this nice variegated stripe. Lovely lapel buttonhole stitchwork too.

bk

 

[Tomasso]

Great suits, BK!

Are you going to press the PB suit or leave it wrinkled? It could actually work either way.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

I'm not sure. The wrinklyness makes it a bit more linen-y. And since my other PB is almost identical (but for the presence of patch pockets) and perfectly pressed i may wish to maintain the rumpled linen look.

bk