Rubinacci Controversy Thread

[dopey]

Somewhere, there is a dispute raging about whether Rubinacci does a nice job for its clients. I am trying to figure out wehether there is any substance to this or if it is something else.


To my taste, iammatt gets stellar results. I liked at least one of whnay.'s suits, though I confess that since his posts are less ubiquitous, I can't recall for sure why I liked it. I know I liked the look of his A&S sportcoat a lot as well. Foo has gotten some nice stuff from Rubinacci as well, though his overall result looks off to my taste and a bit stiff and forced (that is by internet standards - I am sure that if he existed in real life, he would look fine).

So what, exactly, is the problem with R? Is it the price? The faddishness? All I see is uniformly very good to great stuff.

 

[DocHolliday]

It's posted on StyleForum.

 

[texas_jack]

 

[Fuuma]

Rubinacci bit my baby!!

 

[Manton]

Solito is better than Rubinacci. BiTcheZ.

 

[Mark from Plano]

Originally Posted by texas_jack

You say that like it's a bad thing.

 

[edmorel]

Originally Posted by dopey

Somewhere, there is a dispute raging about whether Rubinacci does a nice job for its clients. I am trying to figure out wehether there is any substance to this or if it is something else.


To my taste, iammatt gets stellar results. I liked at least one of whnay.'s suits, though I confess that since his posts are less ubiquitous, I can't recall for sure why I liked it. I know I liked the look of his A&S sportcoat a lot as well. Foo has gotten some nice stuff from Rubinacci as well, though his overall result looks off to my taste and a bit stiff and forced (that is by internet standards - I am sure that if he existed in real life, he would look fine).

So what, exactly, is the problem with R? Is it the price? The faddishness? All I see is uniformly very good to great stuff.

I agree with this

Originally Posted by Manton

Solito is better than Rubinacci. BiTcheZ.

Didn't want to say anything but in the pic yu posted, it looks like all your raphael stuff

 

[taxgenius]

Any thoughts on what's better, Allen Edmonds or Alden?

 

[edmorel]

Originally Posted by taxgenius69

Any thoughts on what's better, Allen Edmonds or Alden?

what does mariano wear?

 

[Manton]

Originally Posted by edmorel

Didn't want to say anything but in the pic yu posted, it looks like all your raphael stuff

It's different. Quite a bit different, actually. But closer to Raphael than it is to anything else I have, or than anything else I have is to it.

 

[Fuuma]

Originally Posted by edmorel

what does mariano wear?

Something overflowing with spazzatura?

 

[edmorel]

Originally Posted by Manton

It's different. Quite a bit different, actually. But closer to Raphael than it is to anything else I have, or than anything else I have is to it.

How much of you is in the suit? In other words, is this all solito all did you have things that you wanted. I ask because the coat is longer than I would have expected and the pants seem fuller, at least what I saw of them.

 

[Manton]

Originally Posted by edmorel

How much of you is in the suit? In other words, is this all solito all did you have things that you wanted. I ask because the coat is longer than I would have expected and the pants seem fuller, at least what I saw of them.

The pants are of course Ambrosi. I have been getting trousers from him for three or four years now. He certainly would have cut a narrower pant had I said nothing, but I told him I did not want those crazy narrow Neapolitan pantaloni. He ended up cutting me a trouser that is about halfway between his usual cut and Savile Row fullness, which he considered abhorent. These are still much narrower than any other pants I have. For this suit, he just made me the same thing he always makes for me.

I didn't tell Solito anything other than the details (3 button roll through, pocket configuration, etc.) and that I wanted room to move. I said that I liked what he makes for Maurizio Marinella and asked him just to make that.

The differences between this and Raphael are many. I explained them as best I could in another thread. In a nutshell, Raphael is more like this: 〉 〈 while Solito is more like this ) (. There are a lot of other differences, too.

 

[gdl203]

I think sentiment started to shift on the curve when a coat was put for sale for $60 on the B&S and the most traction it got was from people wanting to pay to watch it burn to ashes.

 

[whnay.]

I once went into LH and asked them to make me a yellow striped shirt and a reverse chalk stripe suit...they declined, much to my dismay, and now I will stop at nothing to ruin their reputation.

Btw does anyone know the current pricing list?