Cloth weight for dinner suit.

[DoctorRN]

Hi, I am after some advice. I am planning on having a three piece bespoke dinner suit made. I have been looking at cloth and have seen Smiths Woollen do a midnight blue wool mohair mix in 10oz. Do you think this is too light? Will it wear easily? I would normally go for a 12-13oz cloth but cannot find any in midnight blue at that weight.

Many thanks

 

[GBR]

10oz is OK if the cloth is something you prefer. In modern settings 8/9oz, is good and may be even better as the heat tends to build during the function after the meal or whatever.

Few settings are old buildings without heating but with draughts these days.

 

[brax]



Hi, I am after some advice. I am planning on having a three piece bespoke dinner suit made. I have been looking at cloth and have seen Smiths Woollen do a midnight blue wool mohair mix in 10oz. Do you think this is too light? Will it wear easily? I would normally go for a 12-13oz cloth but cannot find any in midnight blue at that weight.

Many thanks

I chose a 12oz midnight blue for my dinner jacket. It was from the Knightbridge II book.

 

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I find that heavier cloth tends to... drape... better. Wrinkle less. And just look better.

But lighter tends to be considerably more comfortable. And modern climate control means that even in the dead of winter, I'm unlikely to be socializing indoors in genuinely chilly conditions. Pre-WWII? Sure, could be chilly indoors. Even today, in a 300 year old English castle, figure on it being chilly indoors. But in 21st century Baltimore, in a place with central heat (which is to say, in almost every place I'm likely to be)? It'll likely be warmer in January, than in July.

And comfort matters more to me than does that last tiny bit of appearance, in most cases. Yeah, plenty of women buy shoes a size too small, because they're so attractive. But, of course, such foolish behavior is commonly understood to be a gender-linked genetic disorder. A man should understand that comfort isn't irrelevant.

So if it were me, I'd opt for the 10oz. And would at least seriously consider something even a little lighter than that. I surely wouldn't go any heavier than 12oz.

Well, not unless I already had several lighter suits already, and simply wanted to get something heavier, for those uncommon situations where it'd make sense to wear something warmer. Or maybe if I had some metabolic issue, where I was always freezing.