what goes with B&W nailhead?

[The_Foxx]

I'm probably headed back overseas for a while to bump up the savings and spending $$, thinking about getting one more business suit. I've always wanted a nailhead suit, but not sure what I'd wear with it (certainly a black grenadine tie, white shirt, and white tv fold cotton square would be great, but can't ALWAYS wear it that way).

So, what suggestions do you gents have for a suit like this first one, as far as shirts and ties? I'd like this to be a fairly versatile suit in the 'ol wardrobe; I figure the second cloth is a little too dark?

 

[Brad]

I like the darker swatch more. I imagine you could wear it just like any other grey.

 

[Manton]

FWIW, that's birdseye, not nailhead.

 

[robin]

Originally Posted by Manton

FWIW, that's birdseye, not nailhead.
What is nailhead then? I had assumed that the two are used interchangeably.

 

[StylenotFashion]

+1

 

[Despos]

Birdseye, the pattern is perfectly round, nailhead, the pattern is irregular, not round sort of jagged looking.

I have the lighter birdseye double breasted and the darker birdseye SB, three button with peak lapels.

Both suits are very versatile. Accessorizing is easy.

 

[whoopee]

Nailhead has smaller, more defined dots. Like this:

 

[The_Foxx]

I always thought naihead was smaller in scale-- of course, these are both magnified closeups of the cloth.

yeah, I thought about the darker one too-- but damn, that would make it just like the rest of my grey suits, all on the medium to darker side.

If I don't go with a nailhead, I'll prob end up with a grey sharkskin, kinda on the boring side but definitely easy to coord and still in the 'lighter grey' category I think I might be lookin for:

 

[itsstillmatt]

Originally Posted by The_Foxx

I always thought naihead was smaller in scale-- of course, these are both magnified closeups of the cloth.

yeah, I thought about the darker one too-- but damn, that would make it just like the rest of my grey suits, all on the medium to darker side.

If I don't go with a nailhead, I'll prob end up with a grey sharkskin, kinda on the boring side but definitely easy to coord and still in the 'lighter grey' category I think I might be lookin for:



I love sharkskin and like nailhead. I do not like birdsey all that much, but some look good. The sharkskin pictured is the same as my favorite suit. Great stuff.

 

[Despos]

Originally Posted by whoopee

Nailhead has smaller, more defined dots. Like this:

This looks like a pindot.

I don't think sharkskin is boring. It's dressier than the birdseye.

 

[Film Noir Buff]

Originally Posted by robin

What is nailhead then? I had assumed that the two are used interchangeably.

It's confusing because the two are used interchangeably. it's a bit like "Sae Island" cotton, weve gotten to the point where no one knows exactly what it is or what your reward is once you figure it out.

 

[Manton]

Originally Posted by Film Noir Buff

It's confusing because the two are used interchangeably. it's a bit like "Sae Island" cotton, weve gotten to the point where no one knows exactly what it is or what your reward is once you figure it out.

Maybe they are used interchangeably, but only by people who don't know what they are talking about. Some of us do know what the difference is, and our reward is simply not to be ignorant.

This is nailhead:

 

[gherrmann]

Originally Posted by Manton

Maybe they are used interchangeably, but only by people who don't know what they are talking about.

I have more trouble distinguishing nailhead from pindot than from birdseye. is the difference between the former pair to do with the size of the dots on the ground, the shape of them (the dots in a nailhead sometimes seem to be almost triangular in shape), both, something else?

isn't birdseye just the basically just a wool, suiting equivalent of pique?

 

[Manton]

Originally Posted by gherrmann

I have more trouble distinguishing nailhead from pindot than from birdseye. is the difference between the former pair to do with the size of the dots on the ground, the shape of them (the dots in a nailhead sometimes seem to be almost triangular in shape), both, something else?

Well, I think Despos and I may have different ideas of what pin dot is. The cloth above that he called pin dot, I would call a nailhead. To me, pin dot is arranged like a nailhead (dots on the horizontal/vertical rather than on the diagonal) but the dots are spaced out much more. Nailhead from a distance blends together and looks almost solid. Pin dot is more distinctively dotted, even from a distance.

isn't birdseye just the basically just a wool, suiting equivalent of pique?

No, pique is a jacquard.

 

[dopey]

Originally Posted by Manton

. . .To me, pin dot is arranged like a nailhead (dots on the horizontal/vertical rather than on the diagonal) but the dots are spaced out much more. . ..
I am wearing this right now. I would call it a pin dot or a nailhead but not birdseye. Pin dot seems more precise and accurate to me, whatever the convention.

Somehow, the white spots seem much smaller in real life than they appear in the photo (I would think it a different cloth if I didn't take the picture myself) - perhaps the flash magnifies them.