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The BlazerSuit™ ... Part Deux!
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My very pedestrian attempt at a The BlazerSuitâ„¢ commissionOriginally Posted by Smahatma
light grey flannel with brown horn buttons, only two patch pockets though, as I am still too weak in the iGent heart for a breast patch pocket
I can't see how that works as a blazer... Does the cloth have a herringbone pattern that has been washed out? Also, is it really that light? The fit is nice though, and I like the buttons.
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You need to us linked buttons, like a cufflink, so you can change out the buttons on the blazer suit and use ones appropriate for the occasion.Originally Posted by countdemoney
good ideaOriginally Posted by Dewey
Show me this...please.Originally Posted by haganah
George Hamilton supposedly does this on a suit -- has buttons to swap out to use it as a blazer, suit coat and something else, either a sport coat or a DJ.Originally Posted by RJman
That's like BlazerSuit™ 2.0 ... badass ...Originally Posted by Manton
Do it. That's something I could totally get behind. I suppose I like such gimmicks.Originally Posted by RJman
I'm dying to see this. If anyone has any pictures, I would greatly appreciate it.Originally Posted by haganah
I have to say, I don't understand how it would work. Link fronts make sense for the waist button, but what do you do about the other front buttons, and the sleeve buttons?Originally Posted by Manton
It's all in the execution - can you make the button hole small enough on the inside cot flap, so that the casual observer couldn't spot the trick. Not sure how to handle the coat sleeves, but I'm sure there's a good way.Originally Posted by countdemoney
Detail pictures would start an SF revolution in button shank pr0n.
Links would work on the sleeves. Do you fear the inside buttons would be uncomfortable?Originally Posted by Bird's One View
For the other front buttons, thread shank to a small metal loop and use cotter pins inside, like are used on Navy uniforms. (Metal blazer buttons, already shanked, could take the cotter pin directly.)
Button covers seem undesirable. I would think they would feel cheap like those hollow metal buttons used on most RTW blazers.Originally Posted by Bird's One View
But link buttons are brilliant.Originally Posted by grimslade
Manton, they're just double-sided buttons, with button holes on both sides.
But I don't want buttonholes on the right side of my jacket front, especially on the top and bottom buttons.Originally Posted by Manton
The top button is a problem on a 3B, it's true. The button one, not so much. The goal would be to design it, as far as possible, to be invisible from the front. Perhaps that's a pipe dream.Originally Posted by grimslade
^^ I suspect linked buttons are a secret feature of the SwissArmySuit™. Time will tell.Originally Posted by Bird's One View
Resolving these issues would take such skill, require the rediscovery of certain techniques, and then involve the creation of new construction insights that it could not be possible in the real world. Diagrams would have to be drawn up. Tests would have to be conducted. Quite possibily, multiple tailors would need to meet in a pub and debate not only how to do it, but perhaps the wisdom of flying an assassin across the Atlantic to snuff out the dude who would conceive of such a time consuming, meticulous task involving hours and hours of extra work.
It would take a client cruel and fiendish...even merciless. A real asshole.
No: the whole scenario is quite impossible. Like most nightmares, best forgetten in the day and left deep in the psyche at night.
Return to your homes, gentlemen.
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Sounds like a job for Mr Glennie
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Sounds like a job for Mr GlennieOriginally Posted by culverwood
He might have to be involved to put the jet pack in back.
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I don't know-- the patch breast pocket seems increasingly au courant.Originally Posted by Concordia
http://www.butasforme.com/wp-content...awleySmoot.jpg
I would not dispute that -- I, however, am anything but au courant ...
Why? Do you think that devoting a whole, gigantic wall within a large (okay: palacial) office suite to framed and mounted photographs of exotic trips is a manifestly undemocratic snub to a world of cubicles, bank bailouts, and TGI Fridays?Originally Posted by voxsartoria
It could be worse, you know.
I'm just a minor tyrant...so small as to be barely visible. Itsy bitsy. Like a speck, or mote.
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Couldn't you just spring for one of these (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_photo_frame) and save a whole whack of wallspace?
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Couldn't you just spring for one of these (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_photo_frame) and save a whole whack of wallspace?Originally Posted by eg1
Actually, I've been toying with the idea of having all the frames replaced with digital ones so that I can have rotating photographs via WiFi from a photo server. An electrician is coming by next week to see about the practicality of the wiring for power.
I probably won't do it because of the bother, but we'll see.
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The top button is a problem on a 3B, it's true. The button one, not so much. The goal would be to design it, as far as possible, to be invisible from the front. Perhaps that's a pipe dream.Originally Posted by Smithers
Resolving these issues would take such skill, require the rediscovery of certain techniques, and then involve the creation of new construction insights that it could not be possible in the real world. Diagrams would have to be drawn up. Tests would have to be conducted. Quite possibily, multiple tailors would need to meet in a pub and debate not only how to do it, but perhaps the wisdom of flying an assassin across the Atlantic to snuff out the dude who would conceive of such a time consuming, meticulous task involving hours and hours of extra work.Originally Posted by voxsantorum
It would take a client cruel and fiendish...even merciless. A real asshole.
No: the whole scenario is quite impossible. Like most nightmares, best forgetten in the day and left deep in the psyche at night.
Return to your homes, gentlemen.
I am sure modern technology and the most ingenious ghostwriting minds of our generation can find a way.
Actually, I've been toying with the idea of having all the frames replaced with digital ones so that I can have rotating photographs via WiFi from a photo server. An electrician is coming by next week to see about the practicality of the wiring for power.Originally Posted by voxsartoria
I probably won't do it because of the bother, but we'll see.
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The color scheme for your office reminds me of a primary school.
- Jealous small-timer.
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I am sure modern technology and the most ingenious ghostwriting minds of our generation can find a way.Originally Posted by RJman
It should be ready at the end of next week. Finally.
The color scheme for your office reminds me of a primary school.Originally Posted by RJman
- Jealous small-timer.
Food fight!
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I actually once had a customer who had a blazer with solid gold buttons. He did not trust his dry cleaner with it so he had the coat made (I do not know where) with small holes in the front and on the sleeves so that the buttons could be attached with cotter pins. He then removed the buttons when he sent it to the cleaners. If i recall correctly the blazer was quarter lined, which would make it much easier to get to the front buttons at least.
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I have to admit, this permutation is making me think about whether I need to revise my position on the deployment of pink shirts in the context of office attire.
Slightly less conservative business dress. Pink shirt, burg tie, brown croc belt, brown calf shoes.
Originally Posted by Manton
Slightly less conservative business dress. Pink shirt, burg tie, brown croc belt, brown calf shoes.
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