Re: Suits : Thu Nov 24, 2011 3:35 pm  

cod'ead wrote:

... Try asking for belt loops on "The Row" and see what the reaction is

Suits and belts ... simply not right, is it?

When I worked in Madrid, there was a shop on Castellana near the Bernabeu where you could get bespoke shirts about the same price as UK shop-bought and a colleague and I decided it would be churlish not to get a couple.
Our Spanish was crap and El fabricante de las camisas spoke no English ... but he made it very clear that he simply refused to put a pocket on a double-cuff shirt.

It was my colleague, not me, that wanted the pocket, just thought I'd mention that.

That was 1997 and I (reluctantly) only got rid of them this year.
Qualiteh !

Re: Suits : Mon Nov 28, 2011 9:14 pm  

Dally wrote:

Didn't realise there were so many posers on here.

Seeing as I flogged suit cloth from No2 Savile Row (Fine Woollen Company/Wain Shiell) to the trade, I had suits made by such luminaries as George Crossman, John Kent and Ray Thorn, in the 80's.

They got plenty of free suit lengths in return, courtesy of my employer.

Re: Suits : Wed Nov 30, 2011 4:11 pm  

Emma's just come back from a charity shopping expedition with what has turned out to be my Christmas pressie. It's a bespoke John Lester (Jermyn Street but works out of Harvie & Hudson), SB 2 btn blue pinstripe, with working cuffs, fishtail-back pants with DAKS tops etc. I'm gonna need about 1.5" disappearing off both the coat chest and the pants waist but I shall be calling on my ex-Row seamstress to sort that out for me.

I can now eBay my own Crombie blue pinstripe and the Cerruti blue pinstripe that I was originally going to keep for myself.

Re: Suits : Wed Nov 30, 2011 4:39 pm  

I'm interested in this ebay suit business Mr. cod'ead Esq.

However, I'm useless at ebay and from reference to your well dressed posts rather lacking in knowledge of tailoring any tips?

Re: Suits : Wed Nov 30, 2011 5:08 pm  

Sandra The Terrorist wrote:

I'm interested in this ebay suit business Mr. cod'ead Esq.

However, I'm useless at ebay and from reference to your well dressed posts rather lacking in knowledge of tailoring any tips?

Get the zebra pissed, you'll learn more from him in one evening than I could impart on t'interweb. Other than that, watch eBay and see what sells and what doesn't, that's the best way to learn. The biggest barrier is spotting knock-offs and "Thai or Singapore bespoke", that only comes with practise and even now I can still get fooled.

About this time last year I sold a Huntsman tweed coat and a CP Company R.E.M. coat. One is unique Savile Row costing >£3k + VAT, the other is a football hooligan-wear. The Huntsman fetched £250, the CP realised £360. No accounting for taste in any of this.

The only other tip I'd give anyone is: unless you are absolutely sure that what you are selling will fetch mega-bucks, don't start anything at 99p, that might be as high as it goes. I've currently got snipes in on two eBay items that are currently on 99p and from the crap listings, I doubt they'll go much higher.

Re: Suits : Wed Nov 30, 2011 9:48 pm  

cod'ead wrote:

Get the zebra pissed, you'll learn more from him in one evening than I could impart on t'interweb.

About this time last year I sold a Huntsman tweed coat and a CP Company R.E.M. coat. One is unique Savile Row costing >£3k + VAT, the other is a football hooligan-wear.

Huntsman were very elitist, even within the Row Dave.
Them, Henry Poole and Anderson & Sheppard would have been top of the Premier League.

You can imagine a young, council estate whippersnapper, being thrown into the lions den of old school tailory, especially when I didn't know a worsted from a piece of linen.

Learning on one's feet would be an understatement.
It's just as well my MD, Mr Patrick Dormeuil took me under his wing.

French millionaire aristocracey, and now I'm namedropping.

Re: Suits : Wed Nov 30, 2011 9:53 pm  

I'm leaning away from a suit now and I'm instead on the lookout for a tweed jacket. Anyone got any experience of http://www.vintagewhistles.co.uk? I've also found this shop on eBay: http://stores.ebay.co.uk/THE-ENGLISH-SQ ... 4340.l2563 Some extremely reasonable prices, almost seems too good to be true considering the price of new jackets, which I appreciate are a rip off in most cases.

I'm leaning away from a suit now and I'm instead on the lookout for a tweed jacket. Anyone got any experience of http://www.vintagewhistles.co.uk? I've also found this shop on eBay: http://stores.ebay.co.uk/THE-ENGLISH-SQ ... 4340.l2563 Some extremely reasonable prices, almost seems too good to be true considering the price of new jackets, which I appreciate are a rip off in most cases.

Re: Suits : Wed Nov 30, 2011 9:57 pm  

WIZEB wrote:

It's just as well my MD, Mr Patrick Dormeuil took me under his wing.

French millionaire aristocracey, and now I'm namedropping.

My teeth set on edge whenever I see someone describe a suit or jacket as "tonic"

When what they really were trying to say was Tonik - a Dormueil trademarked mohair fabric. You just know that they're trying to flop out some man-made shit.

I paid over £300 in 1971 for a genuine Tonik suit, I was earning £12.50 a week at the time

Re: Suits : Wed Nov 30, 2011 9:59 pm  

Dave Lister wrote:

I'm leaning away from a suit now and I'm instead on the lookout for a tweed jacket.

You'll be after a gun and a hunting dog next.

Re: Suits : Wed Nov 30, 2011 10:01 pm  

cod'ead wrote:

My teeth set on edge whenever I see someone describe a suit or jacket as "tonic"

When what they really were trying to say was Tonik - a Dormueil trademarked mohair fabric. You just know that they're trying to flop out some man-made shit.

I paid over £300 in 1971 for a genuine Tonik suit, I was earning £12.50 a week at the time

Tonik was huge for Dormeuil.

That and Sportex.