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Simonnot Godard Chambray

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I love a (what I thought to be) Italian fabric in (what I thought to be) end-on-end. Yesterday, a shirtmaker told me this is a chambray. It is my favorite shirt fabric, bar none. I could wear only this and be happy. Simonnot's chambrays have been touted before. First, can anyone post a picture of chambray next to end-on-end to definitively resolvethe terminology issue? I am talking about the finest chambray, light material one would only use for shirts, not the heavy denim-like material.

Second, does anyone have pictures of solid blue Simonnot fabric? And is this fabric available? I have a shirtmaker who will make fabric into shirts if I can it.
 
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I imagine one of your fellow knights would be able to help.
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Having been halted at the gates of the nine doors, peasants like me don't get to wear such fancy stuff.
 
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They will only sell it in 50 M rolls. Very few shirtmakers will bite at those terms.
 
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I was offered membership, I have not joined yet. I don't even know if the offer is still good. RE chambray, any pictures?
 
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Originally Posted by Manton
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They will only sell it in 50 M rolls. Very few shirtmakers will bite at those terms.

How many shirts will that make...about twenty?

Buy one roll, and get various configurations made up...hmmm...


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If someone could clarify for me what chambray is, I might split a roll, if that is accurate, 50 m makes 20 shirts.
 
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i'll get into that too. a short sleeved shirt for myself takes 2/2.5 yards depending on the width of the fabric (chest p2p: 40 and length: 31)
 
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There is no way I could afford someone as classy as you Dopey! Pictures so that I know what the Hell I am talking about? What is the fabric Manton (sic?) wrote everyone wears in Naples?
 
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Originally Posted by brescd01
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There is no way I could afford someone as classy as you Dopey! Pictures so that I know what the Hell I am talking about? What is the fabric Manton (sic?) wrote everyone wears in Naples?

Can't help with the pictures. I have blue end on end, but no chambray and no idea what people where in Naples.
 
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chambray: a lightweight fabric woven with a white weft and a colored warp

it is rather general, so a number of fabrics can qualify.
 
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I'd take a shirt length.
 
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Minus the decorations, that is it I am pretty sure.
 

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