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post #166 of 231
11/12/11 at 9:46pm
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Originally Posted by F. Corbera View Post

For no particular reason, the Prince's tweed polo:
521960148ye.jpg

Superb!
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post #167 of 231
11/13/11 at 8:17pm
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Originally Posted by Manton View Post

That looks gray to me, not cream.

Let me try again. Not bad for $688.

350

http://www.doylenewyork.com/asp/fullCatalogue.asp?salelot=11DF01+++373+&refno=++825042
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Lot 373
Double-Breasted Coat
In tan wool twill with peaked lapels and braided leather buttons, labeled H. Huntsman & Sons Ltd. 11, Saville Row London N.W.1, typewritten Douglas Fairbanks 24.04.70.
Worn in a photograph in The New York Post, March 20, 1980, with the caption 'Dapper Doug Does the Town. A smiling Douglas Fairbanks Jr., looking as fit and trim as ever, tips his hat to the Big Apple yesterday after lunching at La Cote Basque, 5 E. 55th St.'

C Estate of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

Sold for $688 (Includes Buyer's Premium)
Estimate $150-250

Length of shoulders from seam to seam: 19 inches
Sleeve length: 24 1/2 inches
Shoulder length from seam to collar: 7 inches
Length of back: 42 inches

Generally in good conidition. Very minimal light staining. All buttons intact.
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post #168 of 231
12/12/11 at 6:31am
Ok, I was freezing this weekend. I think I am going to get an overcoat. I am not too sure where to start for fabric. I probably wnt about 700g fabric, but since it will be my first, and likely only for some time I want something versatile. I wear mostly solids so I am thinking solid, maybe, I don't know. Navy? Charcoal? I am confused and stressing about this for sure.

Does anybody know if Tip Top in Brooklyn has a decent selection of overcoat fabric options? Or should I start elsewhere?
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post #169 of 231
12/12/11 at 6:48am
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patrick, I have a spare length of Harrison 700g navy herringbone. I will sell it at my cost, PM me if you want it. (It's not made any more FWIW, they still make that pattern but they dropped the weight to 600g). All wool.
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post #170 of 231
12/12/11 at 9:17am
I had an overcoat made of this fabric (760 gram, 25 oz.) last year:

http://www.huddersfieldcloth.com/product.asp?ID=276&Category=2


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Edited by mlongano - 12/12/11 at 9:27am
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post #171 of 231
12/12/11 at 11:42am
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Originally Posted by Manton View Post

patrick, I have a spare length of Harrison 700g navy herringbone. I will sell it at my cost, PM me if you want it. (It's not made any more FWIW, they still make that pattern but they dropped the weight to 600g). All wool.


Really?  I guess I got one of the last bunches when I placed my order with Tom Mahon last month for an overcoat in that fabric.  

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post #172 of 231
12/12/11 at 11:53am
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Originally Posted by F. Corbera View Post

For no particular reason, the Prince's tweed polo:
521960148ye.jpg

Superb!

Even the dog approves!
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post #173 of 231
12/12/11 at 1:57pm
first fitting

oc1aa.jpg

collar has to be adjusted
cuffs to be added
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post #174 of 231
12/12/11 at 4:17pm
Awesome.
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post #175 of 231
12/12/11 at 4:45pm
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first fitting
oc1aa.jpg
collar has to be adjusted
cuffs to be added

Now that is the way to do some overcoat patch pockets. Belt or martingale?
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post #176 of 231
12/12/11 at 7:03pm
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Originally Posted by T4phage View Post

first fitting Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)
oc1aa.jpg
collar has to be adjusted
cuffs to be added

Is there an app for that? To look like the Grinch? Or is just pure Photoshop skilz? I'm quite envious of people with Photoshop skilz. There are just too many functions and too many ways of getting the same result.
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post #177 of 231
12/12/11 at 7:05pm
Thread Starter 
no, he really looks like that
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post #178 of 231
12/12/11 at 8:21pm
Awesome. Will have to subscribe to his sales thead for the desiterata that "fell of the truck".
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post #179 of 231
12/13/11 at 5:30am
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Originally Posted by F. Corbera View Post

Awesome.

thanks b.
i made an error
photo was of the second fitting
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Originally Posted by dopey View Post

Now that is the way to do some overcoat patch pockets. Belt or martingale?

martingala of course!
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Originally Posted by poorsod View Post

Awesome. Will have to subscribe to his sales thead for the desiterata that "fell of the truck".

i haz a sales thread?


this was what was underneath
teh coat:

oc5h.jpg

oc6x.jpg

no photos
of the other fittings:
the photographer got bored
and she used the phone
for better things
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post #180 of 231
12/13/11 at 6:01am
Thread Starter 
It is important that I know what that cloth is.
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