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Bumping this thread to talk a little bit about silhouettes.
A friend and I were chatting and noted that one of the things that comes up fairly frequently is that (especially) with tailoring that there are certain silhouettes and tailoring styles that work better with different body shapes and body features. This sometimes comes up when someone is looking for a suit and asks where they should look (hopefully it’s considered instead of being told they need to run and buy a Spier neo cut) and more often on the bespoke project thread or first bespoke as people consider house style, where to go, etc.
The thing we noticed though is that this vague “what flatters your body” doesn’t get answered often. It’s lobbed out as a “consider this” but without things to think about, look for or where someone may start. Our tailors do the best they can with what they have to work with but for the most part are working within the constraints of their house style and how they were trained.
I’ll post some pictures later but wanted to put this out to the group. How do you figure out what style/silhouette/tradition worked best for your body? What have you found works best and why? And can we establish any sort of baseline of where it would be helpful for guys to look as they start the process?
Some things I think are important and I consider would be body shape and build - What am I trying to achieve with the tailoring. And then shoulder shape and slope. An example would be anyone who has spent some time looking at tailors house styles and pictures of Simon C has a good idea of what extremely sloping shoulders look like with various tailors and how much the shoulder structure, extension, roping etc can do to change that look.
But that brings us to a pitfall of looking at cuts on other people and trying to translate that to ourselves and don’t take body shape into consideration. This is particularly risky when sources of inspiration vary so much. Mark Cho for example is built very differently than Gazman and differently from Vox and differently from Simon C.
Vox has a fair bit of Steed but it doesn’t look particularly like most Steed.
A friend and I were chatting and noted that one of the things that comes up fairly frequently is that (especially) with tailoring that there are certain silhouettes and tailoring styles that work better with different body shapes and body features. This sometimes comes up when someone is looking for a suit and asks where they should look (hopefully it’s considered instead of being told they need to run and buy a Spier neo cut) and more often on the bespoke project thread or first bespoke as people consider house style, where to go, etc.
The thing we noticed though is that this vague “what flatters your body” doesn’t get answered often. It’s lobbed out as a “consider this” but without things to think about, look for or where someone may start. Our tailors do the best they can with what they have to work with but for the most part are working within the constraints of their house style and how they were trained.
I’ll post some pictures later but wanted to put this out to the group. How do you figure out what style/silhouette/tradition worked best for your body? What have you found works best and why? And can we establish any sort of baseline of where it would be helpful for guys to look as they start the process?
Some things I think are important and I consider would be body shape and build - What am I trying to achieve with the tailoring. And then shoulder shape and slope. An example would be anyone who has spent some time looking at tailors house styles and pictures of Simon C has a good idea of what extremely sloping shoulders look like with various tailors and how much the shoulder structure, extension, roping etc can do to change that look.
But that brings us to a pitfall of looking at cuts on other people and trying to translate that to ourselves and don’t take body shape into consideration. This is particularly risky when sources of inspiration vary so much. Mark Cho for example is built very differently than Gazman and differently from Vox and differently from Simon C.
Vox has a fair bit of Steed but it doesn’t look particularly like most Steed.
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