Putting your name in your clothes

[intent]

Anyone do this? I'm considering it for overcoats, jackets, and other items of clothing so they don't get lost or misplaced. Will it be tacky to order small labels and sew them on? It seems wrong to take a marker to the lining . . .

 

[lefty]

Don't bathhouses have individual lockers?

lefty

 

[Sean Archer]

If you think it's necessary, it's not stupid.

 

[celticgent]

A couple of vintage coats my wife owns have monograms.

A wool overcoat with an embroidered monogram on the inside of the lapel, and a curly lamb coat with three small diamond pieces of fabric (each with a letter emboidered) sewn in the back, next to the designer label.

Perhaps this is another way to go...simple monograms.

 

[apropos]

Simple monograms are preferable to entire names, IMO.

 

[dopey]

If someone did this for me, I probably wouldn't mind, but I can't imagine asking for it or finding it necessary.

 

[Twotone]

My mom labeled my clothes when I went to kindergarten. I'm a bit more responsible these days.

Twotone

 

[mr monty]

Originally Posted by intent

Anyone do this? I'm considering it for overcoats, jackets, and other items of clothing so they don't get lost or misplaced. Will it be tacky to order small labels and sew them on? It seems wrong to take a marker to the lining . . .

It will not stop them from being lost, misplaced, or stolen. I find it strange that an adult is constantly losing overcoats and jackets.

 

[lefty]

Perhaps the OP works here:

lefty

 

[mr monty]

Originally Posted by mr monty

It will not stop them from being lost, misplaced, or stolen. I find it strange that an adult is constantly losing overcoats and jackets.

After reading your post in this thread below. Maybe you should label your clothes

http://www.styleforum.net/showthread...30#post2658830

 

[unjung]

My old dry cleaner used to put my name in my shirts on a very-hard-to-remove sticker.

 

[TheFoo]

MTM and bespoke jackets tend to have your name printed on a tag inside one of the interior jackets. If RTW, I don't see what the big deal would be with writing your name down in the same place. No one will ever see it unless they're checking to see who the jacket belongs to.

 

[serce]

Originally Posted by mafoofan

MTM and bespoke jackets tend to have your name printed on a tag inside one of the interior jackets. If RTW, I don't see what the big deal would be with writing your name down in the same place. No one will ever see it unless they're checking to see who the jacket belongs to.

About name printed on a tag, I don't think there's any difference between bespoke and rtw jackets.
In any case on my bespoke shirts and suits I refuse to write my name or my initials.

 

[intent]

Originally Posted by mr monty

After reading your post in this thread below. Maybe you should label your clothes

http://www.styleforum.net/showthread...30#post2658830
Haha I was half joking. It would be on the inside anyway, where nobody else can see it when I have it worn.

 

[JayJay]

Originally Posted by apropos

Simple monograms are preferable to entire names, IMO.
I have monograms in my MTM jackets.