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Ahh...where to begin?
This is a two part strip tease...today, some photographs and comments, and on Thursday, I'll complete the details and provide more photographs illustrating how the suit operates.
Once upon a time, Manton was getting a casual odd jacket made up in navy fresco, and instead of putting metal blazer buttons on it, he settled on brown horn. The jacket had other features to make it more casual: patch hip out pockets and swelled edges. While the jacket was being made, he had the thought that trousers in matching material could made the combination pass for a versatile suit, particularly good for travel. The Amazing BlazerSuit was born...read all about it here.
Right around the same time that Manton posted that thread, I was thinking myself about a way to cut down on the number of things that I packed for trips. But, I wanted a wider gulf between formal and casual than what the ABS offered. An idea hatched in my mind, and I discussed it with my tailor, Edwin DeBoise of Steed. It just so happened that on that very trip, he, too, began thinking about this problem because of an experience that he had at the airport.
Unravelling all this has taken a lot of time, effort, and experimentation. It has also taken a cutter, a tailor, and finish tailors of unusual patience and good humor. I learned that I was not the first to take this approach, but Edwin, Steed's tailor Ron Hardy, and I had no direct knowledge of how the, uhm, engineering problems had been solved in the few mythological cases of the past. Every solution had to be invented.
I love the result. It is exactly all that I had hoped.
So, today, here are some opening photographs. On Thursday, there will be more and we'll go into how the specifics were handled.
The SwissArmySuit™:
Steed (Edwin DeBoise) SB soft roll to 1 single-button bespoke three piece suit in navy Holland & Sherry 13/14oz fresco (for those of you who care, this is a model with the front cut). Double breasted shawl vest. Buggy ermazine lining. Single pleat trousers with English back.
Closeup of the jacket, shirt, tie and square:
Jacket open:
Jacket without vest:
Trouser detail...English back with no back pockets:
Some shots of the DB vest. I love a DB vest because of how they cut straight across the front, which to my eye looks more trim.
Just two vest pockets, with the signature DeBoise pleats going into the pockets:
A flip of the vest lapel to show the hidden **** for a watchchain, should I decide to Sator it up:
Can you guess what the secret is? Whether you can or cannot, stay tuned for the answers on Thursday with demonstration photographs.
- B
This is a two part strip tease...today, some photographs and comments, and on Thursday, I'll complete the details and provide more photographs illustrating how the suit operates.
Once upon a time, Manton was getting a casual odd jacket made up in navy fresco, and instead of putting metal blazer buttons on it, he settled on brown horn. The jacket had other features to make it more casual: patch hip out pockets and swelled edges. While the jacket was being made, he had the thought that trousers in matching material could made the combination pass for a versatile suit, particularly good for travel. The Amazing BlazerSuit was born...read all about it here.
Right around the same time that Manton posted that thread, I was thinking myself about a way to cut down on the number of things that I packed for trips. But, I wanted a wider gulf between formal and casual than what the ABS offered. An idea hatched in my mind, and I discussed it with my tailor, Edwin DeBoise of Steed. It just so happened that on that very trip, he, too, began thinking about this problem because of an experience that he had at the airport.
Unravelling all this has taken a lot of time, effort, and experimentation. It has also taken a cutter, a tailor, and finish tailors of unusual patience and good humor. I learned that I was not the first to take this approach, but Edwin, Steed's tailor Ron Hardy, and I had no direct knowledge of how the, uhm, engineering problems had been solved in the few mythological cases of the past. Every solution had to be invented.
I love the result. It is exactly all that I had hoped.
So, today, here are some opening photographs. On Thursday, there will be more and we'll go into how the specifics were handled.
The SwissArmySuit™:
Steed (Edwin DeBoise) SB soft roll to 1 single-button bespoke three piece suit in navy Holland & Sherry 13/14oz fresco (for those of you who care, this is a model with the front cut). Double breasted shawl vest. Buggy ermazine lining. Single pleat trousers with English back.
Closeup of the jacket, shirt, tie and square:
Jacket open:
Jacket without vest:
Trouser detail...English back with no back pockets:
Some shots of the DB vest. I love a DB vest because of how they cut straight across the front, which to my eye looks more trim.
Just two vest pockets, with the signature DeBoise pleats going into the pockets:
A flip of the vest lapel to show the hidden **** for a watchchain, should I decide to Sator it up:
Can you guess what the secret is? Whether you can or cannot, stay tuned for the answers on Thursday with demonstration photographs.
- B
