Claudio
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Cashmere and wool blend coat, claw collar shirt, hand rolled silk tie, vintage boater
Thanks for the info Patrick. My feeling was for the 1940s too, but I am not at all expert in dating suit styles. There are no labels in the suit, neither makers or union. I talked to the seller again today and he told me that they came from an estate and passed on some second hand information. They belonged to a man whose habit was to have his daughter pick out fabrics for him and then sent those on to his tailor and had the suits made up. He had a couple of other examples that were tailor labeled and dated to the early 1960s. So whether this was an earlier example of that collaboration between daughter, father and tailor, or if it was made up at a later date in the style of the 1940s is unknown. I found it an interesting tale in any case.Beautiful donegal tweed, Michael. Hard to say on the age, especially without seeing the inside of the coat, the labels/union label and the closure method on the trousers. Based on width of the trouser hems, button point, lapel shape, shoulder expression, and coat length, I'd guess 1940s. I used to have a suit in a brown flecky donegal that looked like this, even down to the jetted pockets. They pop up pretty frequently on the Internet. I gather these were pretty popular suits for leisurewear, and the generic details make them hard to date.
Thank you sir. It is a heavy tweed and I really like the drape of it. I was wearing it outdoors today while it was in the upper 50s F and was in danger of overheating. And I got so many compliments on it that I lost count of them.Great suits Michael, especially the tweed. Like a suit of armour! And the colour is very vibrant.
This is the first one I've found locally, after years of searching. I don't look much on the internet, because all that I found there were above my budget in any case. So it was an extraordinary stroke that the only one I've found fits me as well as this does. I believe that if two more colorways of this sort of tweed would show up here I would retire from the game and consider myself well provisioned in winter clothing for life. Ha ha.I love that lapels on the tweed suit. I wouldn't mind finding one in my size!
Thanks MondoFW. Some days things work out, some days not. I seldom know which is which. ha ha.Michael, your suits and outfit choices are wonderful. Love the fedora-DB suit combo you've got going in a couple of the photos, good stuff.