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Originally Posted by iammatt
I have suits from two of the ones you picture.

They're all pretty nice. I like the mottled "denim-like" solids and the glen checks the best.

I think I could be quite content with a wardrobe of nothing but hopsack.
 

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Originally Posted by mafoofan
Are either of them made of the denim-like stuff?
Yeah. 1997, I think, though mine looks a bit darker in person. Same composition though, for sure.
 

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Originally Posted by iammatt
Yeah. 1997, I think, though mine looks a bit darker in person. Same composition though, for sure.

Very cool. It's the same hopsack you said wore well before? Of the three mottled ones in that photo, I think I like 1993 the most.
 

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Originally Posted by mafoofan
Very cool. It's the same hopsack you said wore well before? Of the three mottled ones in that photo, I think I like 1993 the most.
Si, senor.
 

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Originally Posted by mafoofan
Very cool. It's the same hopsack you said wore well before? Of the three mottled ones in that photo, I think I like 1993 the most.

Please stop calling them hopsacks.

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Originally Posted by voxsartoria
Please stop calling them hopsacks.

What are they, then?

Originally Posted by iammatt
When did you turn into little anal Annie?

He's just bitter that he got stuck with an English shirtmaker.
 

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Originally Posted by iammatt
When did you turn into little anal Annie?

I'm just joking, you idiot.

Anyway, a very nice hopsack that is out is Alden's Mistral:

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You can see a bit of diagonal effect from the basketweave, unlike in a plain weave like a fresco.

A hopsack is often denser and would typically wear warmer in the sense that it would not let through air in the way that a open plain weave might. For example, Mistral is...500g.

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Originally Posted by mafoofan
What are they, then?

I don't know, but the one that you have photographed against the light looks like a plain weave, or fresco.

Plain weave:

800px-Weave.jpg


Basket weave example:

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- B
 

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