epa
Distinguished Member
- Joined
- Aug 10, 2006
- Messages
- 1,410
- Reaction score
- 7
Yesterday I visited my tailor to bespeak a cotton&linen blend shirt (for summer; he has some very nice Italian cloths), and I told my tailor that I had no intention to bespeak any coat or suit this year, basically because due to closet space restrictions (one that I get, one that has to leave). And now all of my 14 suits and sport coats (7 for winter, 7 for summer) are bespoke or MTM that look quite OK. Well, 13 of them; the 14th is this Hugo Boss RTW sport coat that looks quite OK but maybe not really...
Well, it is kind of grey so I told my tailor that if I would change my mind and bespeak a coat for this summer, it would have to be kind of charcoal stuff (to replace the HB one). So after deciding on the cloth for the shirt, my tailor showed me some of his books and there was this Holland and Sherry "Crystal Springs" book with super 130 wool cloths, and there was this charcoal kind of windowpane cloth (bunch 1147, ref. 470006). It looked really nice, kind of thing that I think would look fine for work and "semi-formal" spring/summer leisure.
I don't have much experience of Super 130 cloths, although last autumn I got an LP Super 130 suit and I love it. Now, from what I read on SF, summer is for fresco cloths (and, maybe, seersucker).
Now, this charcoal windowpane cloth looked so damned nice. What do you think? Summer is really warm (but dry) around here. Is a Super 130 H&S wool cloth likely to be "cool" in the temperature sense? Or should I look around for some fresco stuff? Any suggestions? As it has to be charcoal, there must be some kind of pattern or texture that makes it look "interesting".
Thanks in advance for any input...
(I also saw a some nice navy cloths and I know that a navy blazer might be the thing, but out of my seven summer suits/sport coats, three are in different shades of blue, one is brown and one is in kind of light burgundy, and I really think that the newcomer should be dark charcoal...)
Well, it is kind of grey so I told my tailor that if I would change my mind and bespeak a coat for this summer, it would have to be kind of charcoal stuff (to replace the HB one). So after deciding on the cloth for the shirt, my tailor showed me some of his books and there was this Holland and Sherry "Crystal Springs" book with super 130 wool cloths, and there was this charcoal kind of windowpane cloth (bunch 1147, ref. 470006). It looked really nice, kind of thing that I think would look fine for work and "semi-formal" spring/summer leisure.
I don't have much experience of Super 130 cloths, although last autumn I got an LP Super 130 suit and I love it. Now, from what I read on SF, summer is for fresco cloths (and, maybe, seersucker).
Now, this charcoal windowpane cloth looked so damned nice. What do you think? Summer is really warm (but dry) around here. Is a Super 130 H&S wool cloth likely to be "cool" in the temperature sense? Or should I look around for some fresco stuff? Any suggestions? As it has to be charcoal, there must be some kind of pattern or texture that makes it look "interesting".
Thanks in advance for any input...
(I also saw a some nice navy cloths and I know that a navy blazer might be the thing, but out of my seven summer suits/sport coats, three are in different shades of blue, one is brown and one is in kind of light burgundy, and I really think that the newcomer should be dark charcoal...)