Posts by banksmiranda

Jon, you might want to contact T&A's Jermyn Street location for swatches. I did (by regular mail), and they sent me quite a few swatches - promptly. As for markup, the suggested retail price is generally 2.5 - 2.75 times the...

Today I saw Freddy Garcia (pitcher for the Chicago White Sox, my team) when I was in Chicago.  I doubt that many people recognized him, as it was on the street that I saw him.  He looked nice, and really is a big, well-built...

Barry Bonds is another not-so-popular athlete, but so is Michael Jordan. Jerry Rice is admired for his work ethic but has for many years rubbed some the wrong way. Pete Sampras was not disliked as such, just considered boring - I really...

Sorry, I suppose the last sentence of my previous sentence may have been misunderstood. What I intended to say is that Y'apre shirts are too expensive for what they are, and that Y'apre shirts are quite different from Borrelli shirts.

Quote: Who cares?  I've been looking at porn and clothing sites.  There.  Now everyone knows.  The government is too busy browsing the internet to be out to get you. Hilarious post.  

The older salespeople, especially when they don't have the knowledge to answer a question, say things like, "Son/Hun, I've been doing this for (insert number here) years, and I've never seen/heard of that."  The younger,...

Brioni, Borrelli, Kiton, Marol, Fray, Barba and Lorenzini make their collars with 0" tie space.  To me it seems that American makers are the ones who tend to make some of their collars with tie space.

First, I just want to say that I don't intend at all to pick over small issues, but rather I want to clarify one thing: Alex Rodriguez wears a size 60L suit? Arnold Schwarzenegger: "At his bodybuilding peak his chest was 57",...

Individualized Shirts is part of the shirtmaking branch of the Individualized Apparel Group (e.g. Tom Jones, Oxxford, Hart Schaffner Marx, Hickey-Freeman etc). Individualized Shirts' MTM shirts are sold under the Yapre' label at...

Fray's collars are very nice. The edge-stitching is extremely well-done. Part of what makes Fray's collars so nice is the cut - Fray and Marol(both Bolognese, is this a Bologna thing?) seem to make collars with longer-than-standard points.