Bespoke Overcoat

[comrade]



For no particular reason, the Prince's tweed polo:

Superb!

 

[poorsod]



That looks gray to me, not cream.

Let me try again. Not bad for $688.



http://www.doylenewyork.com/asp/fullCatalogue.asp?salelot=11DF01+++373+&refno=++825042

Lot 373
Double-Breasted Coat
In tan wool twill with peaked lapels and braided leather buttons, labeled H. Huntsman & Sons Ltd. 11, Saville Row London N.W.1, typewritten Douglas Fairbanks 24.04.70.
Worn in a photograph in The New York Post, March 20, 1980, with the caption 'Dapper Doug Does the Town. A smiling Douglas Fairbanks Jr., looking as fit and trim as ever, tips his hat to the Big Apple yesterday after lunching at La Cote Basque, 5 E. 55th St.'

C Estate of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

Sold for $688 (Includes Buyer's Premium)
Estimate $150-250

Length of shoulders from seam to seam: 19 inches
Sleeve length: 24 1/2 inches
Shoulder length from seam to collar: 7 inches
Length of back: 42 inches

Generally in good conidition. Very minimal light staining. All buttons intact.

 

[patrickBOOTH]

Ok, I was freezing this weekend. I think I am going to get an overcoat. I am not too sure where to start for fabric. I probably wnt about 700g fabric, but since it will be my first, and likely only for some time I want something versatile. I wear mostly solids so I am thinking solid, maybe, I don't know. Navy? Charcoal? I am confused and stressing about this for sure.

Does anybody know if Tip Top in Brooklyn has a decent selection of overcoat fabric options? Or should I start elsewhere?

 

[Manton]

patrick, I have a spare length of Harrison 700g navy herringbone. I will sell it at my cost, PM me if you want it. (It's not made any more FWIW, they still make that pattern but they dropped the weight to 600g). All wool.

 

[mlongano]

I had an overcoat made of this fabric (760 gram, 25 oz.) last year:

http://www.huddersfieldcloth.com/product.asp?ID=276&Category=2

 

[Master Shake]

patrick, I have a spare length of Harrison 700g navy herringbone. I will sell it at my cost, PM me if you want it. (It's not made any more FWIW, they still make that pattern but they dropped the weight to 600g). All wool.

Really? I guess I got one of the last bunches when I placed my order with Tom Mahon last month for an overcoat in that fabric.

 

[Patek]

For no particular reason, the Prince's tweed polo:

Superb!

Even the dog approves!

 

[T4phage]

first fitting

collar has to be adjusted
cuffs to be added

 

[F. Corbera]

Awesome.

 

[dopey]



first fitting

collar has to be adjusted
cuffs to be added

Now that is the way to do some overcoat patch pockets. Belt or martingale?

 

[poorsod]



first fitting

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

collar has to be adjusted
cuffs to be added

Is there an app for that? To look like the Grinch? Or is just pure Photoshop skilz? I'm quite envious of people with Photoshop skilz. There are just too many functions and too many ways of getting the same result.

 

[Manton]

no, he really looks like that

 

[poorsod]

Awesome. Will have to subscribe to his sales thead for the desiterata that "fell of the truck".

 

[T4phage]



Awesome.

thanks b.
i made an error
photo was of the second fitting

Now that is the way to do some overcoat patch pockets. Belt or martingale?

martingala of course!

Awesome. Will have to subscribe to his sales thead for the desiterata that "fell of the truck".

i haz a sales thread?


this was what was underneath
teh coat:

no photos
of the other fittings:
the photographer got bored
and she used the phone
for better things

 

[Manton]

It is important that I know what that cloth is.