Unfunded Liabilities: a/k/a The Cloth Thread - Page 158

Chocolate brown birdseye:

Will it work for an odd jacket?

I think of birdseye as an inherently suiting fabric.
 

 

Thanks much.

The grey = pick & pick.

It's called sharkskin. "Pick by pick" is pedestrian.

I love know-it-all 18-year olds. Of course, the simple notion that the Brits use a different term rather than the one used at PS MTM hasn't occured to them yet.

Why don't you spend a few more rambling posts talking about how PS MTM is really "bespoke" and then back-tracking? That was fun.

P.S. - Its Pick AND Pick and not Pick by Pick.

 

Oh god.

+ 1

Also remind me never to have anything made by Paul Stuart MTM. I would hate to be served by pedantic, snobby, know-it-alls, like dear Paolo. Definitely not a good advertisement for PS MTM services.

I also don't think so - it would remind me of suiting. I can't really give a good reason as to why. Maybe it's the stark demarcation between the "eye" and the background.

As an aside, I do have a chocolate brown wool/cashmere sportscoat made from this fabric. It's an Isaia I picked up from Sierra Trading Post. The pattern seems like a sportscoat version of the birdseye - it's a lot fuzzier in appearance and the "eye" and the background are very close in color and blend in with each other. I don't know what the weave would be called but it's probably my favorite sportscoat. It has a lot of surface texture which is what I like (it also fits like a glove.)



Someone once referred to it as "crow's eye" but I've never heard that term before or since.

Now that we've settled the pick-and-pick question...

Any tropical weight pick-and-picks out there that anyone knows of? Fresco has a bit of surface interest but it's not quite the same thing.
Edited by tim_horton - 8/7/11 at 9:16am

That looks like a barleycorn weave. I've usually seen it in tweeds, but Harrisons has a couple flannels that look similar.

Looked it up online and it appears you are right.

I really like it, I'm not a fan of loud sportscoats and mine tend to be solids but this really gives a nice amount of texture and keeps it from looking like a suit jacket. I'd be stoked if I could find it in navy.

EDIT: http://www.styleforum.net/forum/thread/125003/barleycorn#post_2188705

EDIT: Minnis has some barleycorn on their website but it's in their Harris tweed range. What I have is a wool/cashmere mix, definitely smoother and less nappy than tweed.
Edited by tim_horton - 8/7/11 at 11:29am

WTF does this even mean in this context?

If you rub sharkskin fabric in the wrong direction will it cut your hand?

Maybe he meant that it's laconic?

I thought he meant like plebian, in the adjective sense.