literasyme
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Probably hardly worth a new thread, but I just received (and am returning) three overcoats I had relatively high hopes for, so I need to vent my frustration somewhere...
First, there was this Cucinelli coat. At $610, minus the pre-Christmas SF discount, a real steal. Or so I thought. Fit like a sack, material felt like it would sag and look baggy within hours, and no canvas in sight. The coat's quarter-lined, but the exposed seams aren't very well finished, and the pockets look ready to fall off at the sight of a wallet or set of keys. Sleeves seemed to be attached by hand, though, oddly. Back into the box it went.
Then this Jil Sander coat. Easily the best of the lot, but while Yoox claimed that it was a French size 50, which supposedly translates to a 44 US, it fit like a 40. Shoulders were OK (but I find JS shoulders usually too broad, so that's no surprise), but the armholes were so high I almost lost circulation in my hands. It's from the "tailor made" line, and seemed to be canvased, but the material is so stiff that it was hard to feel for the inner layer. Still, a nice coat -- shame it was two sizes too small...
And finally, this Boglioli. Buttons, as I had feared from the Yoox photos, were cheesy as hell (some sort of super-shiny shell material), but the cloth was very nice, with a cashmere-like hand. The details, however, weren't -- fit wasn't very good (and definitely too tight for me to wear a jacket underneath), and it felt very cheaply put together. Fake buttonhole on the lapel, thick fusing, obtrusive stitch-lines everywhere (just top-stitching, not even the fake machine-made pick-stitching Boss etc. use).
Which leads me to ask: what's the deal with Boglioli? Some here seem to think highly of the brand, but all my experiences with them have been very disappointing, and I've only tried the supposedly higher-end mainline (never even gone near the "Coat" line).
So back to the trough I went, and discovered, to my delight, that there'd been another round of price cuts. Immediately ordered the Sartorio coat I'd been hankering after -- if that one doesn't work out either I'll just quietly crawl into a corner and hibernate.
First, there was this Cucinelli coat. At $610, minus the pre-Christmas SF discount, a real steal. Or so I thought. Fit like a sack, material felt like it would sag and look baggy within hours, and no canvas in sight. The coat's quarter-lined, but the exposed seams aren't very well finished, and the pockets look ready to fall off at the sight of a wallet or set of keys. Sleeves seemed to be attached by hand, though, oddly. Back into the box it went.
Then this Jil Sander coat. Easily the best of the lot, but while Yoox claimed that it was a French size 50, which supposedly translates to a 44 US, it fit like a 40. Shoulders were OK (but I find JS shoulders usually too broad, so that's no surprise), but the armholes were so high I almost lost circulation in my hands. It's from the "tailor made" line, and seemed to be canvased, but the material is so stiff that it was hard to feel for the inner layer. Still, a nice coat -- shame it was two sizes too small...
And finally, this Boglioli. Buttons, as I had feared from the Yoox photos, were cheesy as hell (some sort of super-shiny shell material), but the cloth was very nice, with a cashmere-like hand. The details, however, weren't -- fit wasn't very good (and definitely too tight for me to wear a jacket underneath), and it felt very cheaply put together. Fake buttonhole on the lapel, thick fusing, obtrusive stitch-lines everywhere (just top-stitching, not even the fake machine-made pick-stitching Boss etc. use).
Which leads me to ask: what's the deal with Boglioli? Some here seem to think highly of the brand, but all my experiences with them have been very disappointing, and I've only tried the supposedly higher-end mainline (never even gone near the "Coat" line).
So back to the trough I went, and discovered, to my delight, that there'd been another round of price cuts. Immediately ordered the Sartorio coat I'd been hankering after -- if that one doesn't work out either I'll just quietly crawl into a corner and hibernate.
