Manton
RINO
- Joined
- Apr 20, 2002
- Messages
- 41,314
- Reaction score
- 2,884
The focus here is always on how things look, which is understandable. But clothes are more to worn than seen, so how they feel on you (the wearer) should be at least as important.
A big part of the attraction for the stuff I like is how it feels. I like to be comfortable and not constricted. I don't like to feel nothing--I prefer the slight pinch of a high armhole and I am driven nuts if a coat does not grip my neck. But "feelable" contact beyond that I find annoying. I also don't want the clothes to be so slim that things in pockets press against my body. All of this is part of the reason why I like the drape cut.
There is another reason. I have noticed that certain suits whose fit I cannot fault, non-drape suits, feel as though they are slipping off me, backwards. I always want to tug them up and forward even though, when I look in the mirror, I have to admit that they fit fine. Certain cutting idiosyncracies of the drape coat--whether cut in London, NY or Naples--always make it feel, on me, to be resting exaclty the way it should.
This is part of why I get bespoke. I would guess it's part of the reason everyone who does gets bespoke. Yet we don't seem to appreciate it here enough. I would venture that SF opinion is that my recent Mina suit looks better than Solito or A&S but the latter feel better, which is hugely important.
A big part of the attraction for the stuff I like is how it feels. I like to be comfortable and not constricted. I don't like to feel nothing--I prefer the slight pinch of a high armhole and I am driven nuts if a coat does not grip my neck. But "feelable" contact beyond that I find annoying. I also don't want the clothes to be so slim that things in pockets press against my body. All of this is part of the reason why I like the drape cut.
There is another reason. I have noticed that certain suits whose fit I cannot fault, non-drape suits, feel as though they are slipping off me, backwards. I always want to tug them up and forward even though, when I look in the mirror, I have to admit that they fit fine. Certain cutting idiosyncracies of the drape coat--whether cut in London, NY or Naples--always make it feel, on me, to be resting exaclty the way it should.
This is part of why I get bespoke. I would guess it's part of the reason everyone who does gets bespoke. Yet we don't seem to appreciate it here enough. I would venture that SF opinion is that my recent Mina suit looks better than Solito or A&S but the latter feel better, which is hugely important.