Style Forum http://www.styleforum.net en Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:52:41 GMT vBulletin 10 http://www.styleforum.net/images/misc/rss.jpg Style Forum http://www.styleforum.net CDG, SNS Herning, RL BL, Yoko D, APC tops http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=151018&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:50:40 GMT S.N.S Herning bottle green INITIAL cardigan sz L Worn around the house, but never out. I love it, but it is not getting enough use. Shoulders... S.N.S Herning bottle green INITIAL cardigan sz L
Worn around the house, but never out. I love it, but it is not getting enough use.
Shoulders 20"
Pit2Pit 21"
Length 27"
Arms 31"
$90 shipped


APC herringbone vest sz 3
New
Shoulders 17"
P2P 22"
Length 26"
$35 shipped
]]> chez_dre http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=151018 Alden for Winn Perry Little Tanks vs Vintage Indy http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=151017&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:48:57 GMT Can someone who owns Vintage Indy from Leather Soul Hawaii tell whether the so-called "little tanks" made by Alden for Winn Perry have the same upper used on the Vintage Indy made by Alden for Leather Soul?

The photos posted belong to the little tanks.

I will also appreciate if someone can post real life photos of Vintage Indys.
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]]> mg428 http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=151017 A Tommy Nutter Thread http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=151016&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:48:21 GMT Obituary: Tommy Nutter MEREDITH ETHERINGTON-SMITH The Independent Tuesday, 18 August 1992 Thomas Albert Nutter, tailor, born Barmouth Merioneth... Obituary: Tommy Nutter

MEREDITH ETHERINGTON-SMITH
The Independent

Tuesday, 18 August 1992

Thomas Albert Nutter, tailor, born Barmouth Merioneth 17 April 1943, died London 17 August 1992.

TOMMY NUTTER, the avant-garde Savile Row tailor, came to prominence in the late Sixties as a man who singlehandedly reconciled the traditions of Savile Row, laid down in the late 19th century, with the male peacock revolution of the Sixties and the often extravagant demands of his clients, the leading dandies of swinging London.

Born in Wales in 1943, Nutter spent his formative years in Edgware, north London, where his father was proprietor of a cafe catering to a clientele composed of truckdrivers, gas-fitters and builders. The family moved to Kilburn and Tommy and his brother David had a normal suburban childhood, punctuated by highly enjoyable holidays at Butlin's holiday camps. He attended the Willesden Technical College where, according to his brother, he studied plumbing.

In the early Sixties, Nutter obtained a position with Donaldson, Williams & Ward, traditional Savile Row tailors with premises in the Burlington Arcade. Here, starting as an apprentice, he absorbed the lore and the rules of the English gentleman's classical wardrobe. His seven years with the firm gave him a thoroughgoing knowledge of his craft, and a lifelong respect for its rules.

In 1968, Nutter left Donaldson Williams & Ward to found his own business, first at 35a Savile Row, later in its present handsome double-fronted premises at No 19. He was backed by clients including Cilla Black and her husband Bobby Willis, Peter Brown, then Managing Director of the Beatles' Apple Corps, also situated in Savile Row, and by the lawyer James Vallance-White.

The business was an immediate success for, like Sir Hardy Amies, a Savile Row dandy of a previous generation, Tommy Nutter produced lively, contemporary tailoring whose roots were deeply embedded in the craftsmanship and knowledge of Savile Row. Indeed, he made suits for Amies as well as for newer residents of Savile Row, and in particular the Beatles. He was proudest of the fact that, for the cover of the Beatles' album Abbey Road (1969), he dressed three out of the four (George Harrison elected to be photographed on the road-crossing in denims). Other leading dandies of the period were also his clients, including Sir Roy Strong (then Director of the National Portrait Gallery), Mick Jagger and Elton John.

Nutter also applied his craft to dressing female icons of swinging London society at the time, including Cilla Black, a close friend, and Bianca Jagger, who was much photographed at the time in a white dinner jacket with white satin facings. Nutter also made a red velvet suit for Twiggy which became a celebrated and much-copied look when she was photographed wearing it in the early Seventies.

In 1971 he was elected to the Best-Dressed List in the United States, along with the Earl of Snowdon and Hardy Amies. At the time, American Menswear magazine said of Nutter that he was 'tradition spiced with daring'.

'He never got things wrong about clothes,' said the restaurateur and bookshop-owner Stuart Grimshaw, who was a client of Tommy Nutter's from the late Sixties. 'He really knew what he was talking about. One would go in and say, 'What do I wear to go on safari in Kenya?' and Tommy would make one an absolutely correct safari suit, a proper one with all the pockets in exactly the right place.

'This knowledge extended to such minutiae as the correct wearing of half or full brogues or co-respondent shoes. He was an encyclopaedia of correct, classical male style.'

Clients from the hipper purlieus of the aristocracy, from the media, pop stars, and even aspiring teenage dandies from the East End whose ambition, in the early Seventies, was to own a Nutter suit, were drawn to Tommy Nutter not only because of his ineffable sense of style, but also because of his peculiarly ironic personality.

Andrew Lloyd Webber was a client and friend. 'He made me a lot of things when one was younger and trendier,' Lloyd Webber said. 'There was a wonderful maroon coat I remember I wore for Ascot - he was always such fun, very much part of my early life when Jesus Christ Superstar was going on - he made clothes for Tim Rice too - we were all great mates'.

Nutter was a gentle humorist who had a wide and interesting circle of friends attracted by his enthusiasm, by his gentle, self-mocking personality and his acerbic comments on the vagaries of others, always ending with the expression 'But who am I to talk?' He was a prodigious and witty correspondent and his letters to his many friends are treasured. In addition, he delighted in writing to the serious newspapers on topics as far-ranging as the correct buttoning of the suit on a statue of John F. Kennedy, to the scarcity of deckchairs in Green Park. He was always very ready to spring to the defence if his beloved Savile Row came under attack, as it so frequently did in the anarchic Sixties.

Nutter was also a firm believer in the supremacy of the English suit and of English cloth; during the Seventies and early Eighties he took part in huge international fashion shows put on by Reid & Taylor, the Scottish firm of woollen and worsted manufacturers.

With his untimely death, from complications arising from Aids, London society loses a witty and elegant dandy, whose hand-rolled lapels and insouciant manner masked a serious and continuing purpose; to make sure that the craft and traditions of Savile Row tailoring were preserved for, and valued by, his generation.




























- B ]]> voxsartoria http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=151016 Could it be worse? http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=151015&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:46:45 GMT Ibmop Ibmop ]]> Dumb Threads gdl203 http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=151015 Magnanni shoes http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=151014&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:42:32 GMT Brand new never worn Magnanni shoes, store display , have magnanni box from different model if you interested can throw in. Size EU42/US 9 . outsole... Brand new never worn Magnanni shoes, store display , have magnanni box from different model if you interested can throw in. Size EU42/US 9 . outsole measures 12.25" . I am US 9.5 and these fit me perfect.
$149 shipped in CONUS takes it. Internationals would need to chip in extra $10





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http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/n...m/IMG_6460.jpg ]]> lyubm http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=151014 Global Warming Data Falsified http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=151013&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:40:24 GMT Brief: Emails between scientists were hacked and uploaded onto web, within which they discussed the collusion of data in climate reports.... Brief: Emails between scientists were hacked and uploaded onto web, within which they discussed the collusion of data in climate reports.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/ja...lobal-warming/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environmen...-leaked-emails






]]> Current Events, Power and Money StephenHero http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=151013 How to wear scarf with button up shirt? http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=151012&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:39:10 GMT Any advice on how to wear a scarf with a button up, collared shirt and a blazer? Does the scarf go under the collar? Around the collar? Thank You Any advice on how to wear a scarf with a button up, collared shirt and a blazer? Does the scarf go under the collar? Around the collar?

Thank You ]]> scarfhelpneeded http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=151012 Opening Ceremony brogues (Bean Boots, sweaters: Nom de Guerre, APC, Brooks Brothers) http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=151011&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:37:11 GMT Opening Ceremony blue suede brogues Size 42

Absolutely lovely shoes from OC's really great shoe line. Deep blue suede
with tooling details and contrast sole. I really want to keep these and wear
them all the time but they're just too small. They have never been worn
because I really can't even put them on properly. New in box. $200 shipped
in the US. Measure about 11.75" heel-to-toe and 4" at widest.





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On eBay:

[x] Nom de Guerre grey woolen sweater vest, size S
[x] APC wool sweater, from a few, better-produced seasons back, size 1
[x] LL Bean maine hunting boots, new, size 9
[x] [x] Brooks Brothers cashmere sweaters, S & M
[x] G1 goatskin flight jacket, size 36 (XS: smallest actual military G1 you will ever see) ]]> Trintignant http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=151011 <![CDATA[Painted D&G Jeans, advice needed!]]> http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=151010&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:36:56 GMT Hi

Im new here, so sorry if this is in the wrong section!

I'm a teenager, and thus dont wash my own clothes (the joys of living at home). Recently, I purchased a pair of jeans from D&G that come with a painted effect;
http://www.yoox.com/item.asp?sec=1&Y...V&sts=sr_men80

Those are what the jeans looked like originally. However, after a few washes (probably quite harsh washes, my mother has OCD inregards to cleaning/cleanliness) the paint has began to come off, I believe it is emulsion paint.

Is there anyway I can restore them to how they used to appear, possibly repainting over them?

Thanks ! ]]> Benji http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=151010 Please identify these leather jackets http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=151009&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:33:55 GMT I like these brown leather jackets. Anyone got any ideas for who they're made by, or where I can get something similar:

]]> Pennywise the Clown http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=151009 More Republican idiocy http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=151007&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:29:47 GMT Dick Armey has been all over my teevee as an so-called expert on the stimulus plan. Republicans in the House asked Armey -- the head of front group... Dick Armey has been all over my teevee as an so-called expert on the stimulus plan.

Republicans in the House asked Armey -- the head of front group FreedomWorks -- to testify as their expert witness at a hearing.

After listening to Armey argue against having government intervention in the economy, Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) asked him if he supported the unemployment compensation parts in the bill.

We pick up the story here:

Quote:
REP VAN HOLLEN: Let me ask you think ... did you read the Economic Recovery bill?

ARMEY: No I didn’t. I had no reason to read it, I wasn’t voting on it.

REP VAN HOLLEN: You’re commenting on it an awful lot, both here and in the press, about the Economic Recovery bill. We ask members of Congress to read it when they vote on it and are considering it. You’ve said a lot about it, so I’m a little surprised that you have not read it.
Got that? He's commenting like crazy on the bill -- he's the Repubs expert -- and he has not even read the bill.

Typical Rethug Idjit. ]]> Current Events, Power and Money Aspire2Style http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=151007 FS: NWT Calvin Klein Collection 2 Button Black Suit 40 50 http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=151006&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:46:40 GMT Selling new with tags Calvin Klein '09 Collection suit. This suit is NOT from Calvin Klein's lesser, white-label 'Calvin Klein' line, sold @ Macy's, Kohl's or white-label store. This is from Calvin Klein's COLLECTION label; designed by Men's creative director Italo Zucchelli, finely tailored and constructed in Milan, Italy, and sold at the few, high-end retailers (Saks, Neiman Marcus) that even carry the Collection label, chiefly their flagship on 5th Ave in NYC (where this one came from). Its fit is slim, tailored and modern; with narrow lapels, vaguely shorter jacket length, and tab-front, slim pants. Still, its fit is very much true to a traditional US size 40 suit / EU size 50 (good for slim dudes with broader builds, like Taylor Lautner, pictured here wearing his own Calvin Klein Collection suit... Not exactly a SF icon, sure, but he looks good in it). It's completely unworn, unaltered, and brand new with tags. Obviously, it thus meant to be altered like any suit, but current measurements are as follows:

Jacket

* Shoulder to shoulder: 17"
* Pit to pit (front): 18.25"
* Length (neck seam to hem): 29.75"
* Sleeve (shoulder to cuff): 27"

Pants

* Waist: 34"
* Inseam: 39"
* Hem: 8.5"

I got it as a gift this Spring (seems to be a 3 season weight) but, as I don't really have many occasions to wear the few I already have, I don't expect I'll ever wear this one.
















Asking $349, shipped within the ConUS. $70 less on Gilt, where the same suit that sold out in seconds, yesterday. ]]> jaspar http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=151006 Helly Hansen Grafton Trench - BNWT - Black (XL) http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=151005&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:42:10 GMT As much as I want this to fit me, it doesn't so up it goes.

Helly Hansen Grafton Trench in XL. Black BNWT. Bought it at their recent friends and family sale so I can't return it.

Lined (lining fabric can be seen in the hood on the link below), not insulated. Hood is detachable. Helly Tech XP fabric. Ipod pocket and a few other unique features. The cut is rather slim (for an XL)

Retails at $374. I'm asking $175 shipped in NA.

I'll get shots of the actual coat up this weekend. In the meantime...

H/H link including measurements here: http://www.hellyhansen.com/product/J...5391/view/1730 ]]> Ispy http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=151005 IC: 70000 YEN natural indigo dyed 45RPM puffy vest http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=151004&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:18:36 GMT very very nice piece from 45rpm last season. Retail was about 70000 YEN. brand new, never used after purchase. tagged size 3. $375 + shipping if... very very nice piece from 45rpm last season. Retail was about 70000 YEN. brand new, never used after purchase. tagged size 3. $375 + shipping if some people are interested. but sizing on this kind of pieces should be very flexible.

I saw someone selling it in size 4 for 32000 YEN (expect to pay more than $450 after everything given the current conversion rate) just in case people in bigger size are interested.







]]> Badseeds http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=151004 FS: 45RPM denim/canvas peacoat size 2 http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=151002&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:54:39 GMT made from a thick canvas fabric. Used a handful times. No stains or damage. washed about 3 times? There is some intentional pre-wash effect that is... made from a thick canvas fabric. Used a handful times. No stains or damage. washed about 3 times? There is some intentional pre-wash effect that is not caused by wear.

tagged size 2.

asking $175 with free shipping in the states. Canada add $15.

measurements (taken from outside when the jacket is buttoned and laid flat):

shoulder (seam to seam) 42-43 cm
chest (armpit to armpit) 51cm
sleeves (shoulder seam to cuff) 61cm
length (collarbase to bottom) 64cm








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