FRIDAY CHALLENGE 3-9-18: STYLEFORVM OLYMPICS!!

[Wild Strawberry Rabbit]

@blekit @Wild Strawberry Rabbit Strong entries! Are there any guides or resources online covering the world of Polish tailoring? The only one I've ever heard of is Zaremba.

Thanks!
As far as I know there are 4 tailors in Poland that are worth mentioning. Obviously there is Zaremba, but there is also another family business with a long tradition called Krupa&Rzeszutko(as @blekit said). There is also mr. Tarasenko who is actually Ukrainian but lives in Poland and his work is really good. What these three tailors have in common are quite high prices (for Poles, I suppose that for the rest of the world it’s not that expensive). And there is one more tailor, Dawid Kuklinski who actually is a self-taught tailor, IT guy who started to learn tailoring just a few years ago and from what I know he will leave his current job and become a full time tailor in a month or two. He has made the jacket I posted in this thread and now he is making two suits for me... for less than a half of Zaremba’s price, so I’d day that his work is a great value for money.

 

[Caustic Man]

Rockin' @smittycl You look like a cool, chill, dude when you abandon the Italian ****. No offense to Italy, I've just been trying to convince Smitty to go full Trad.

@Newcomer I had no idea you were Canadian. Your taste level is too high.

 

[Newcomer]

@Caustic Man I've lived in the South since I was a teenager - but I am originally from Vancouver, no less - amazing I have made it so far in my CM career.

 

[Caustic Man]

Ah, Vancouver. So you had no taste when you arrived. I'm just fooling, of course. But seriously, you're lucky to have gotten out.

 

[KingPSQ]

Representing Germany:

Although I wore a tweed jacket with a black and red windowpane check as well as my usual golden watch today, I decided not to enter that into this FC. I rather picked this one as I'm wearing a lot of my personal favorite garments here:

 

[am55]

Although I wore a tweed jacket with a black and red windowpane check as well as my usual golden watch today, I decided not to enter that into this FC. I rather picked this one as I'm wearing a lot of my personal favorite garments here:

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Uberdurchschnittlich mustergültig!

 

[EliodA]

Are you going to show us a batik?

Well, I'm Dutch so I guess something with wooden shoes is in order

 

[am55]

Well, I'm Dutch so I guess something with wooden shoes is in order

Dutch in Jakarta? So many options...

 

[in stitches]

Really glad we are getting solid submissions here.

Please though, so that I can get the poll right, in the post that has your submission, please very clearly state the country you are representing. Like in bold. If it isn't there already, please do edit it in.

Kthnxbailuvya!

 

[EliodA]

Dutch in Jakarta? So many options...

I'm afraid that is one of the options not currently feasible for Dutch people in Jakarta...

On another note, I suppose he's a wee bit too busy at the moment, but otherwise you 'Murricans should try to enlist this dude for your team:

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/on-and-off-the-avenue/robert-mueller-style-icon

 

[Caustic Man]

I'm afraid that is one of the options not currently feasible for Dutch people in Jakarta...

On another note, I suppose he's a wee bit too busy at the moment, but otherwise you 'Murricans should try to enlist this dude for your team:

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/on-and-off-the-avenue/robert-mueller-style-icon

We were just talking about this dude in the Southern Trad thread. Definitely a solid "American" style dresser, but without the look of someone from another time. He's a stylish, yet almost totally conservative, type. It's clear in any case that he has an actual philosophy to his style, as he is purported to mention in the article (at least when it comes to his white shirts).

ETA: One of the interesting things about the Trump presidency is that a publication like the New Yorker actually seems to be sympathetic and favorable to an "unreconstructed preppy" v. the slick, business shark, ensembles of Jared Kushner. A look that Kennedy once abandoned to look more accessible to the American People (the trad/Ivy look) is now the perfect public style according to this author.

 

[in stitches]

Not sure this is my best fit ever, but it is the best suit and tie rig I have pics of that is recent, so here is my submission.

Suit and glasses made in the US of A, and shirt-tie-PS display the good ole red-white-and-blue. MURRICA!!!

 

[am55]

FTFY

 

[Aeschylus]

I'm afraid that is one of the options not currently feasible for Dutch people in Jakarta...

On another note, I suppose he's a wee bit too busy at the moment, but otherwise you 'Murricans should try to enlist this dude for your team:

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/on-and-off-the-avenue/robert-mueller-style-icon

Shout out to Styleforum's own Dieworkwear whose excellent piece The Trad is Washington is referenced by the New Yorker

 

[bernoulli]

Representing Brazil. We don't do Winter sports, so tennis it is. As for why there is a tennis racket in my office, there is a simple explanation: I will stop whatever I am doing to play. My partner knows that. Tennis, her, basketball and comics. She climbed over basketball recently. PS got a bit out of control but this is my A-game. My favorite suit (cobalt blue) because of the lapel vests and the texture of the material. Ball is a gift of a friend who played at Queen's Club. As for colors of my country, all are represented. The cufflinks are yellow and green. Blue in the jacket and more green and yellow in the tennis ball, important part of the whole ensemble, of course.

Spoiler: Details on shows, vest etc