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By default, Rubinacci does double stitching on odd jackets (who knew he was an iGent? He even likes patch pockets!), but there is no swelled edge. On my own odd jackets, I can barely tell the double stitching is there.
My LA-based Italian tailor's stuff is like that too: the edge is barely swelled if at all when he does the sportcoat stitching, as he refers to it. I asked him about swelled edges recently, and while I don't understand his explanation, it had something to do how the inner layers are arranged and sewn together, which seems prosaically tautological now that I type it out. He claims it is more of a feature of machine sewing, but I may not have understood him. I've been meaning to take a few pictures for the jacket pr0n thread, too.
Is that like jumbo shrimp?F*cking iGent.
--Andre