Explorations of Questionable Taste: The Pink Sportcoat Thread

[smittycl]

Or maybe Easily Amused, circa 2025...

I know you can pull it off! Me, however...

 

[circumspice]

I think I mentioned somewhere that I am a herringbone skeptic for spring+summer - it feels too tight of a weave.

I can also share that I am a Pepper Lee skeptic - US$61 shipping for fabric swatches is something they are going to need to solve.

I dropped them a note a week or so ago, but I just on a whim decided to try refreshing my cart again... and shipping to the US for swatches dropped to US$14, so they are on the way

 

[DorianGreen]

A beautiful cloth from Drapers on this crossover between a caban and a sport coat, Sartoria Seminara.

 

[P-K-L]

Draper's.

https://drapersitaly.it/us-en/collection/?f[]=214&f[]=82#tcont

This URL seems to reliably work at the time of posting for viewing all so described as red or pink.

Plain fabric for Sports jacket by Vitale Barberis Canonico - 30107

Worsted pink fabric (cod. 30107) from the Montecarlo bunch. Buy now online on Drapers Italy and create your made to measure suit.

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Too Pepto-Bismol

Plain fabric for Sports jacket by Vitale Barberis Canonico - 30106

Worsted pink fabric (cod. 30106) from the Montecarlo bunch. Buy now online on Drapers Italy and create your made to measure suit.

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Lighter shade, same open weave as the above. I have a Vanda pick hopsack tie - this may be that, or that this.

Plain fabric for Suit by Vitale Barberis Canonico - 18030

21 micron red fabric (cod. 18030) from the Ascot two, four and six ply bunch. Buy now online on Drapers Italy and create your made to measure suit.

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Interesting suiting color.

Plain fabric for Sports jacket - 95023

Woollen pink fabric (cod. 95023) from the Brit Pop bunch. Buy now online on Drapers Italy and create your made to measure suit.

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A hairy FW option. I am looking for SS options

Got a jacket made from the Drapers 30106
worn it probably twice ever since, still it is a good choice if one is looking for something like that

 

[DorianGreen]

Stile Latino sport coat.

 

[DorianGreen]

Dormeuil cotton cloth.

 

[DorianGreen]

Sastreria Serna.

 

[mmmargeologist]

Haulier pink western cord suit. Missized the jacket and the size up sold out by the time id realized it. Its a 42 jacket and 36 pant, although Id’ say its probably closer to a 41 and 35 if that makes sense. Send me a DM and I’ll provide measurements. Super duper cool suit, wish it fit.

 

[mmmargeologist]

I have the same jacket in black cord too, same size.

 

[DorianGreen]

A lovely dusty pink in this suit from Orazio Luciano.

 

[circumspice]

Status update: I bought a SC length of the pale pink W/S/L sharkskin during Pepper Lee's year end sale. It is definitely a candidate - for some reason as a swatch it seems to have a hint of peach to me, but it renders more pure pale pink as a length.

Meanwhile, Loro Piana seems to have added more books online: Cruise

https://textile.loropiana.com/digital_bunch/cruise/?lang=en

From their "Cruise" book, 52 silk / 48 cashmere 220gm/m^2 N746023. I am not sure if I love the texture here - seems almost too mechanical, as if all the horizontal slubs are on the 5th thread pass vertically, or some such.


In the white/ivory tone, the same slub pattern shows, but in this tone:

N746024 it isn't as pronounced at all. N746026 also doesn't have it - that is a nice mid toned violet with a hint of grey, which would be a topic for a different questionable taste thread.

This book has some herringbones:

49 W / 30 S / 21 L at 240 g/m^2 , N746031

And some tartans:

52 silk / 48 cashmere 220g/m^2 N746002

 

[lordsuperb]

Status update: I bought a SC length of the pale pink W/S/L sharkskin during Pepper Lee's year end sale. It is definitely a candidate - for some reason as a swatch it seems to have a hint of peach to me, but it renders more pure pale pink as a length.

Meanwhile, Loro Piana seems to have added more books online: Cruise

https://textile.loropiana.com/digital_bunch/cruise/?lang=en

From their "Cruise" book, 52 silk / 48 cashmere 220gm/m^2 N746023. I am not sure if I love the texture here - seems almost too mechanical, as if all the horizontal slubs are on the 5th thread pass vertically, or some such.


In the white/ivory tone, the same slub pattern shows, but in this tone:

N746024 it isn't as pronounced at all. N746026 also doesn't have it - that is a nice mid toned violet with a hint of grey, which would be a topic for a different questionable taste thread.

This book has some herringbones:

49 W / 30 S / 21 L at 240 g/m^2 , N746031

And some tartans:

52 silk / 48 cashmere 220g/m^2 N746002

Keep searching…..

 

[lordsuperb]

 

[DorianGreen]

Status update: I bought a SC length of the pale pink W/S/L sharkskin during Pepper Lee's year end sale. It is definitely a candidate - for some reason as a swatch it seems to have a hint of peach to me, but it renders more pure pale pink as a length.

Meanwhile, Loro Piana seems to have added more books online: Cruise

https://textile.loropiana.com/digital_bunch/cruise/?lang=en

From their "Cruise" book, 52 silk / 48 cashmere 220gm/m^2 N746023. I am not sure if I love the texture here - seems almost too mechanical, as if all the horizontal slubs are on the 5th thread pass vertically, or some such.


In the white/ivory tone, the same slub pattern shows, but in this tone:

N746024 it isn't as pronounced at all. N746026 also doesn't have it - that is a nice mid toned violet with a hint of grey, which would be a topic for a different questionable taste thread.

This book has some herringbones:

49 W / 30 S / 21 L at 240 g/m^2 , N746031

And some tartans:

52 silk / 48 cashmere 220g/m^2 N746002

I like the second and the fourth one.

 

[WhereNext]

Status update: I bought a SC length of the pale pink W/S/L sharkskin during Pepper Lee's year end sale. It is definitely a candidate - for some reason as a swatch it seems to have a hint of peach to me, but it renders more pure pale pink as a length.

Meanwhile, Loro Piana seems to have added more books online: Cruise

https://textile.loropiana.com/digital_bunch/cruise/?lang=en

From their "Cruise" book, 52 silk / 48 cashmere 220gm/m^2 N746023. I am not sure if I love the texture here - seems almost too mechanical, as if all the horizontal slubs are on the 5th thread pass vertically, or some such.


In the white/ivory tone, the same slub pattern shows, but in this tone:

N746024 it isn't as pronounced at all. N746026 also doesn't have it - that is a nice mid toned violet with a hint of grey, which would be a topic for a different questionable taste thread.

This book has some herringbones:

49 W / 30 S / 21 L at 240 g/m^2 , N746031

And some tartans:

52 silk / 48 cashmere 220g/m^2 N746002

I happened to check the Cruise bunch out about 2 weeks ago. I really liked the lighter pink option you showed as a cool summer dinner jacket option, and the darker pink and purple ones you mentioned/showed for sport coats. I didn’t notice the repetition of weave issue you mentioned, but will have a look again when I see the bunch again (I agree that if it’s TOO regular, that’s not ideal). Prices for a jacket from this bunch weren’t outrageous from this particular tailor, so I think something from here will eventually find its way to “funded” with me.