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Originally Posted by Charlie's Wardrobe 

Hey Rob,
I've never asked (I don't think anyone else has), but who is your mate that is the other half of Owen & James? Does he just play a more background role?

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Originally Posted by thebrownman 

Hmm.. Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - bet Owen & James are the same guy..

Ah good question and no split personalities fortunately. Owen and James is a combination of myself and my business partner's middle names.

"James" has a great eye for menswear, travels the world e.g. Pitti Uomo and meets with suppliers etc. He is shy, not so great with computers and prefers to do what he does;)

He is the guy modelling the trousers in the Owen and James affiliate thread as he gets the samples to his sizing to wear for a while to ensure that a) its something that looks good and b) its something that we can say the quality stands up after a season of wear.

So by the time we get new product in stock we have personally been wearing/abusing/going google eyes over our samples for a good 6 mths:)

I don't know how much experience you guys have had with using Saphir Renomat, but I bought some recently and gave a couple of pairs of shoes several doses of it over a couple of days. It does an amazing job of stripping away all the old polish from the leather (and it wouldn't entirely surprise me if it stripped away your fingerprints - I used rubber gloves while applying it). 

I then used Renovateur and left it on overnight, brushed it off this afternoon and my shoes look like new! I mean they literally look like they did when I first took them out of the box! Amazing!

I wonder if the author reads SF - he certainly mentions a lot of the usual suspects, e.g. Kent Wang and this:

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Originally Posted by TehBunny 

American Tailors; I always pass that shop when going out to get dinner with friends; always looked smexy from the front door but thought it would have crazy prices.

So.....anyone have any general pricing from them (their website is dated) mainly looking at the Isaia shirts and then the shoes.

Thanks Guys

Sorry I feel v.rude quoting this post but got no answer and thinking of stopping by at American Tailors this weekend; and the question is still as above.

Thanks Again

Hi friends,

Headed over to London, Amsterdam and Paris in December, and looking to visit SuitSupply for suits. Anywho, I've bought from Austin Reed before, in person, when I was there last, and I was a 36S in their contemporary cut or a 36S in their traditional, and then send to a tailor (difference is level of waist suppression). I got an email from Austin Reed and they have the following on sale, including free postage to australia:

http://www.austinreed.co.uk/fcp/product/austinreed/Mens-Suits/Charcoal-Prince-of-Wales-Check-Suit/8284

Should I wait until I'm in Europe or should I get this? I was chasing something like this anyway. I think it's pretty nice for the price. It'd be fused most likely. 

Thoughts? I don't have the budget for PJohnson (student here) and will be starting full time employment next year, but the as a field, the employers are notoriously poorly dressed. 

A solid white shirt or very pale blue with a blue tie, or even a burnt orange tie would sit nicely, I thought? But I'm happy to defer to more sartorially-inclined minds.