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SartodiNapoli

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Ah cheers, it was hard to pass alright.  Esposito isn't too dear either, linen is E30/m and all their cottons are E25, if you were buying on a  visit from outside the EU you'd get your VAT back too.  You know I thought it would be a bit of trudge to get them all in but to be honest I'd have to say it was a blessed relief delight to get away from plodding around a ruin all day, or another flipping church.  Everyone I dealt with was a gent,  Patrizio Cappelli is top boy of menswear in my view, and Giorgio was a bit of craic too. 

Naples was great as well, unpretentious [or perhaps gritty for those of nervous disposition] cheap as chips, great food and my kind of place I'd definitely go back.   The two shirtmakers I visited got me measured and fitted despite the fact that there were only three working days that week due to the 1st of May.  I'll talk about them when I get the finished garment. 




Awww you don't really mean that, do you now?
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I am glad you liked to being here. Ah you went to Sposito? Not many people knows that shop.
 

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I misspoke. It does not have the nap of a woolen flannel. But it is not hard finished like Lesser 13 oz. It has a "soft" structural integrity (?) that lacks the tight weave of a fine woven worsted. If that makes any sense. If he wants a soft feeling, no. Maybe I should say it has good tensile strength or rebound? If you put the Dugdale book on a table and push your hand into it, it has a dense give. In that sense, the "thickness" is like flannel. Hope I'm making sense.


I believe luxire has a pic for their trousers. I had one made in twill. It doesn't look like flannel at all.
 

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Just started funding a batch of shirting. Madras and some fancy chambray bought at clearance, off to Ascot Chang in HK. $30 each in postage, plus $110 CMT, and we're still ahead of the game.
 

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Suit for sure
 

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I think so as well. It wouldn't be bad worn as an odd jacket though would it? I don't have as many opportunities to wear suits.
 

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Any chance you can take a picture of it? I'm still deciding whether I want it single or double breasted.
 

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Any chance you can take a picture of it? I'm still deciding whether I want it single or double breasted.


I can although I think the pattern is more distinct in the swatch/link than in reality so I'm not sure you'll be any the wiser. It's a handsome looking cloth up close but will reduce to a plain navy from anything beyond touching distance.
 

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Any chance you can take a picture of it? I'm still deciding whether I want it single or double breasted.

I know this doesn't fully address your question but that cloth is VERY similar to the H&S Cape Horn Classics cloth we used for one of our 3-season suits, so I thought I'd share - particularly, since we made it up both in SB and DB

Here is a comparison of the two cloths :


And here is how the H&S made up (if you're interested in using it as proxy). In SB



a lot more pics here

and in DB




more pics again here



I don't know if that helps?
 

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It wouldn't be bad worn as an odd jacket though would it?


I think it would be pretty bad.

The scale of the pattern is just too small. So you're left with something that isn't quite a plan navy blazer but that doesn't have nearly enough of a pattern to look like a proper odd jacket.

I imagine that even people who don't notice these things would notice that you were trying to pass a suit jacket off as a blazer.
 

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^ Agreed. You would need a much bolder pattern to make it work IMO.
 

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