Posts by bboysdontcryy

Quote:Originally Posted by kashmir non bespoken wholecuts are generally... ugly and shapeless.. also the fact that most of the pictures are of new unworn pairs of shoes, divorced from the whole harmony of outfit, doesn't help....

Quote:Originally Posted by chogall You are talking from a top down perspective and your description is fairly generic to square, narrow rounded, chisel or even rounded lasts. But a chisel last (as oppose to square) has a knock down...

Oh the one Slew posted is yours? What?! That's a bellow pocket? Doesn't look like one at all. Very neat. Where's the tacking? Hidden on the underside? if your coat is an example of a bellow pocket, then apparently, you CAN have a bellow...

Don't think you posted a picture on this thread. Post #4 is by somebody else. I had my coat made with bellow pockets as well. I had asked for slightly rounded edges but was told, rightly or not, that it's not possible to have rounded...

^ Don't think so. Never really explored this sub-forum. LOL. Yes, Sautter's is a nice place though I don't smoke there. I misplaced my cellular thrice at JJ when it was packed, and I thought retrieving it would be a lost cause after I...

It was the tacks, and how the pleats on the breast pocket were so close together that actually made me think that it wasn't functional and decorative. Were these details found on a RTW garment? Am only guessing so because of that tag in...

Quote:Originally Posted by chogall And make it a double monk to go full iGent... Hatch grain is a casual printed/pressed leather more suitable for country shoes, not something to be worn proud and showcased like croc or lizard...

Quote:Originally Posted by 518aata Thanks. But what do you think of this style/feature? I'm on the fence myself, but it could just be because I haven't seen it before. The inverted pleats on that coat is stylistic, and probably...

^ Yes. There are 'imitations'. Girling's hatchgrain is one example.

That's an inverted pleat patch pocket.