Dupioni Silk Suits

[rnoldh]

Originally Posted by Mark from Plano

Yeah, remember when the corrupt Nevada Senator Geary tells Pacino, "I don't like you people with your olive oil, your greasy looks, and silk suits" or something like that.

Geary probably started buying Dupioni suits after that

 

[Mark from Plano]

Originally Posted by rnoldh

Yeah, remember when the corrupt Nevada Senator Geary tells Pacino, "I don't like you people with your olive oil, your greasy looks, and silk suits" or something like that.

Geary probably started buying Dupioni suits after that

"Senator, you can have my answer now if you wish. What I offer you is exactly nothing, not even the fee for the gaming license, which I would appreciate if you would take care of personally."

Or something like that.

Awesome.

 

[Parker]

Originally Posted by greekonomist

Parker! I thought I had gotten over my illogical desire for a dupioni suit. This is not helping.

Ha! Glad I could help... so impractical, yet so sytlin'.

 

[culverwood]

I have a DJ and trousers in black dupioni silk. Shawl collar, SB.

 

[IndianBoyz]

Originally Posted by LabelKing

Isn't Dupioni silk shot silk?

New Evidence for Silk in the Indus Valley Civilisation

Silk is an important economic fiber, and is generally considered to have been the exclusive cultural heritage of China. Silk weaving is evident from the Shang period c. 1600-1045 BC, though the earliest evidence for silk textiles in ancient China dates to a millennium earlier. Recent microscopic analysis of archaeological thread fragments found inside copper and steatite beads from two important Indus sites, Harappa and Chanhu-daro, have yielded silk fibers, dating to c. 2450-2000 BC. This study offers the earliest evidence in the world for any silk outside China, and is roughly contemporaneous with the earliest Chinese evidence for silk. This important new finding brings into question the traditional historical notion of sericulture as being an exclusively Chinese invention.


http://harvard.academia.edu/IreneGoo...e-Indus-Valley
http://precedings.nature.com/documents/1900/version/1

 

[Bull]

Prince Charles:

Michael Corleone:

 

[meister]

I have one I want to sell that's NOS late 60s early 70 = narrower lapels. Its a mid grey /elephant grey Will called his and I'll post some pics...soon.

 

[Bull]

Corleone is the man. The more I look, the more he's killing it in that suit.

 

[Ianiceman]

Originally Posted by meister

I have one I want to sell that's NOS late 60s early 70 = narrower lapels. Its a mid grey /elephant grey Will called his and I'll post some pics...soon.

More info please I might be in to that!

 

[barims]

Originally Posted by Ianiceman

More info please I might be in to that!

Ditto

 

[LabelKing]

Does anyone have a dupioni/shantung three-piece?

 

[Testudo_Aubreii]

Need some more pics in this thread. Galbraith one-ups Corleone on the slubs factor.

 

[Holdfast]

Need some more pics in this thread.

For a (generally) unslubby silk suit, I believe Tibor now has the silk Spano DB one I mentioned upthread and has posted several pics of it in the WAYWRN thread over recent weeks/months. I'll see if I can dig up a pic.

EDIT: here we go... couldn't find a full-length pic, but some close-up shots...

(Tibor, if there's any problem with my cross-posting these to this thread, just let me know & I'll remove them, stat).

Friday


Saturday

 

[Testudo_Aubreii]

Pierre Eliot Trudeau in his glory days:

 

[David Reeves]

Looks like Scabal has a Dupioni book, I have requested it, Ill try to get some pictures up.