Suggestions and comments for a London Lounge Gun Club jacket

[Concordia]

Originally Posted by dopey

Ask him, He's from Scotland.

I believe he's moved on to become quite the gentleman farmer:

http://www.fatbastardwine.com/our-wines.php

Does he now, wear brown?

 

[Manton]

Originally Posted by Concordia

I believe he's moved on to become quite the gentleman farmer:

http://www.fatbastardwine.com/our-wines.php

Does he now, wear brown?

Laugh all you want, the wines are not bad. At least the whites. I don't think I've tried the reds.

 

[John Ellis]

Originally Posted by Concordia

I just got one this winter, and agree with you completely. Yes, it gives. Yes, I might have to have someone take it in a bit after the first cleaning/pressing.

Who cares? I also like single-ply V-neck sweaters, but don't pretend they are the perfect solution to every clothing situation. A&S seem to have figured out how to tailor the stuff: that is one firm more than none, and more or less all I need.

There is also a length of gun check in my drawer waiting to be made up, and a bunch of other equally nasty tweeds already hanging up and ready for me to wear. They have a different application. Horses for courses.

I'm surprised you have a jacket like this cleaned. I never have clothes dry cleaned as a matter of principle because it destroys them. Steaming and sponging allied with strict rotation are the solutions. I'm certainly not going to have this one cleaned.

 

[John Ellis]

Originally Posted by Manton

That not a Shetland, not even close. Breanish is a Shetland.

It is indeed a shetland and that why I like it and the incredibly soft hand and relative feather lightness for a tweed.

 

[yachtie]

Originally Posted by iammatt

FWIW, here is a scan of relatively traditional shetland.

That looks like a sample of what I got from Lovat. Now that's soft.

 

[Concordia]

Originally Posted by John Ellis

I'm surprised you have a jacket like this cleaned. I never have clothes dry cleaned as a matter of principle because it destroys them. Steaming and sponging allied with strict rotation are the solutions. I'm certainly not going to have this one cleaned.

At the moment, I haven't done anything to it. But some day, I might have to. Certainly, winter clothes can go longer without cleaning than most people think.

 

[voxsartoria]

Originally Posted by iammatt

I have a length of the gun club as well. Likely, I will not be making it up, as it is too dark for my personal taste.


Hmmm...it looks dark in person? Or is it the contrast dark elements that don't appeal to you? I say that because many of your tweed coats are "blurry," with visual bleedthrough of colors, which makes for more subtle effect than this gun club check.

I wouldn't have sought it out on purpose, but I am happy to have had it fall in my lap.

Another question for all of you:

One button or two on the cuff? If I did one, I would do the same size as the front buttons, if two, the normal smaller sleeve button size. I'm leaning toward one.

So far, I have not read anything that is pursuading me to alter my path, which as of the moment is:

* SB, three button front, side vents

* Patch hip pockets and patch breast pocket (debating button closes on the hip pockets, like in the Meyer & Mortimer sample from pejsek that I posted earlier)

* 3 roll to 3, with swelled edges on the lapels.

* and if my tailor can stand doing it, a quarter lining.

For those who don't know it, this coat would be done in a Scholte/A&S style draped cut, if that makes a difference to you.

- B

 

[Eustace Tilley]

I would love to buy some of that LL gunclub cloth. I may pm Michael Alden and see if there is any left.

 

[voxsartoria]

Originally Posted by Eustace Tilley

I would love to buy some of that LL gunclub cloth. I may pm Michael Alden and see if there is any left.

PM Matt...no reason why his length should lie dormant in his drawer if he's not going to use it.

- B

 

[Manton]

Originally Posted by Eustace Tilley

I would love to buy some of that LL gunclub cloth. I may pm Michael Alden and see if there is any left.

Long gone.

 

[aportnoy]

I also have a 2.5 or 3 meter length sitting unmade in my office cradenza.

 

[Manton]

Originally Posted by voxsartoria

So far, I have not read anything that is pursuading me to alter my path

Well then you are just stubborn, and cannot be well advised.

 

[Eustace Tilley]

Originally Posted by Manton

Long gone.

You're a cloth hoarding machine!

 

[itsstillmatt]

Originally Posted by voxsartoria

PM Matt...no reason why his length should lie dormant in his drawer if he's not going to use it.

- B
Somebody else already did.

 

[TheFoo]

Originally Posted by voxsartoria

* 3 roll to 3, with swelled edges on the lapels.

With the roll that high, would you be fastening the top button? With such a cloth, I'd think you'd want to show off the roll more and have it go lower.