Before I get started, I'm not wearing any pants. I left the oven on and my apartment was like a hundred degrees when I got back from salsa. Since I wanted to spare Ed the hassle of cleaning-up his keyboard of a sticky mess, I took angled-shots as best I could to avoid any illicit shots.
And as I said. I'm just back from salsa and didn't bother changing my shirt for the photo. I know it doesn't match. Lastly, it's said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Since my pictures suck, I'm gonna give you a least a couple hundred words to supplement them.
The jacket is a double-vented, single-button, peak lapel with flap pockets. The colors are off in the photo. The brown has coppery accents and the blue is much more radient. It's not dull like in the photo. It really sticks-out beautifully. I haven't settled on a dslr yet so I'm still taking photos with a razr. This was done at night, with crappy lighting, so it's really not ideal, or even adequate.
I've come to much prefer the borrelli cut to anything else since I started wearing it. They're just so damned comfortable. This jacket is constructed like a borrelli. The sleeveheads and sleeves are done the same way, it has open-quarters, and most importantly, the canvas used was very very supple and light. There's actually less wadding in the shoulder than the Nerano model, and my tailor didn't go quite as big as borrelli does on the sleevehead (less of a ripple-effect). Of course, there's no banana. The waist, button-fastening, and drape are all perfect imo. You can see that there's no tension in the photo. It lies very smooth and the waist is quite tapered, although you can't tell from the photos I provided.The button-holes are superbly done as well.
My only beef is with pick-stitching. A lot of the customers up here saw garments made using a thick silk thread for the pick-stitching. It sort of says "hey, look at me, I was hand-made and cost thousands of dollars." I liked it at first, especially on some casual unconstructed cashmere jackets that I saw. My first jacket was made that way. For this one, I specified I wanted to use a regular sized thread. They complied with that part of the request, but didn't catch the rest. Unfortunately, they still used the longer stitches they'd use with the thicker thread, so this needs to be communicated better next time. The pickstitching is there, but it's not as good as on a borrelli. Instead of very short stitches in and out, they're a bit longer, and the sewers haven't put enough tension in the thread so that you get the pleasing effect of pick-stitching while avoiding the pin-cusion effect of the stuff that's been pick-stitched by machine. It's good, and it's all clean and straight, but it's just not excellent like the top-tier stuff. The other thing is that I'm debating raising the armhole just a tad more.
EDIT: bad title for the thread. The quality is very good. I meant low-res.
And as I said. I'm just back from salsa and didn't bother changing my shirt for the photo. I know it doesn't match. Lastly, it's said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Since my pictures suck, I'm gonna give you a least a couple hundred words to supplement them.
The jacket is a double-vented, single-button, peak lapel with flap pockets. The colors are off in the photo. The brown has coppery accents and the blue is much more radient. It's not dull like in the photo. It really sticks-out beautifully. I haven't settled on a dslr yet so I'm still taking photos with a razr. This was done at night, with crappy lighting, so it's really not ideal, or even adequate.
I've come to much prefer the borrelli cut to anything else since I started wearing it. They're just so damned comfortable. This jacket is constructed like a borrelli. The sleeveheads and sleeves are done the same way, it has open-quarters, and most importantly, the canvas used was very very supple and light. There's actually less wadding in the shoulder than the Nerano model, and my tailor didn't go quite as big as borrelli does on the sleevehead (less of a ripple-effect). Of course, there's no banana. The waist, button-fastening, and drape are all perfect imo. You can see that there's no tension in the photo. It lies very smooth and the waist is quite tapered, although you can't tell from the photos I provided.The button-holes are superbly done as well.
My only beef is with pick-stitching. A lot of the customers up here saw garments made using a thick silk thread for the pick-stitching. It sort of says "hey, look at me, I was hand-made and cost thousands of dollars." I liked it at first, especially on some casual unconstructed cashmere jackets that I saw. My first jacket was made that way. For this one, I specified I wanted to use a regular sized thread. They complied with that part of the request, but didn't catch the rest. Unfortunately, they still used the longer stitches they'd use with the thicker thread, so this needs to be communicated better next time. The pickstitching is there, but it's not as good as on a borrelli. Instead of very short stitches in and out, they're a bit longer, and the sewers haven't put enough tension in the thread so that you get the pleasing effect of pick-stitching while avoiding the pin-cusion effect of the stuff that's been pick-stitched by machine. It's good, and it's all clean and straight, but it's just not excellent like the top-tier stuff. The other thing is that I'm debating raising the armhole just a tad more.
EDIT: bad title for the thread. The quality is very good. I meant low-res.
