HOF: What Are You Wearing Right Now - Part IV (starting May 2014)

[mktitsworth]

Just a general broadside against mixing cotton with wool.

 

[afterthesuit]

Is that jacket solaro?

Spier & Mackay

 

[Marsay]

Today, bordering on primary colours. Trousers are a navy houndstooth brushed wool with a flannel-like texture.

 

[mktitsworth]



Spier & Mackay

Solaro is a kind of fabric woven with different color warp and weft so that it can create a sort of color changing effect.

 

[afterthesuit]

Thanks! I would say there is some coppery shimmer to the herringbone.

 

[afterthesuit]



Solaro is a kind of fabric woven with different color warp and weft so that it can create a sort of color changing effect.

Whoops. There's is definitely some colour variation. Predominantly a wheat/tan colour with some coppery elements. Not quite as pronounced as the close up you linked to.

Colour looks a bit different under fluorescent lighting, but I think you can see the details better.

 

[comrade]

Peter, that is absolutely perfect.

 

[mktitsworth]



Whoops. There's is definitely some colour variation. Predominantly a wheat/tan colour with some coppery elements. Not quite as pronounced as the close up you linked to.

Colour looks a bit different under fluorescent lighting, but I think you can see the details better.

It may be a solaro-style fabric, but it is not solaro. Proper solaro is only 11oz and only available in the tan/red combination. It could also just be a relatively generic tan/brown herringbone. Nothing wrong with that.

I have several swatches of other solaro-style fabrics floating around and by serendipity happen to have found one while cleaning my desk the other day. I've attached photos for illustrative purposes of what the fabric looks like on front and back. Note though that these are not "solaro" in that they are not from Smith. They're also lighter (8-9oz I think).

 

[afterthesuit]



It may be a solaro-style fabric, but it is not solaro. Proper solaro is only 11oz and only available in the tan/red combination. It could also just be a relatively generic tan/brown herringbone. Nothing wrong with that.

I replied before reading more about the fabric. Thanks for the education! It's just a tan herringbone with some reddish hues to it. Cheers!

 

[upr_crust]



Just a general broadside against mixing cotton with wool.

As opposed to the more Talmudic prohibition against mixing linen and wool, which is shatnez.

 

[mktitsworth]



As opposed to the more Talmudic prohibition against mixing linen and wool, which is shatnez.

I literally googled shatnez to make sure that I was not missing something.

 

[sebastian mcfox]

Cross post from the Friday Challenge (The Dramatic Look):

 

[in stitches]



Just a general broadside against mixing cotton with wool.

Something like that, yes.

As opposed to the more Talmudic prohibition against mixing linen and wool, which is shatnez.

Lol.

Also, it's actually Biblical. Expounded in the Talmud, but written in the Bible.

And with that, happy Shabbos!

 

[mktitsworth]

Leviticus 19:19 and Deuteronomy 22:9–11.

 

[ericgereghty]

I think this is the first time in popular culture that Leviticus has ever been used in a non-right wing rant.