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The Anderson & Sheppard Expatriates Thread

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Originally Posted by Manton
I don't think there is anything faux about the tweed, it's just machine loomed but it's real tweed. A purist could say that a true Shetland is always handmade but that stuff is not strong. And I don't just mean the Breamish, even the W. Bill hand loomed Shetlands are 2x1 and very loose.

Yes, it was perhaps too incommunicative merely to put "faux" in quotations.

Originally Posted by Manton
The Scabal stuff is much sturdier (as well as 2x2) but still wears soft.

For tweed in the city, I think it about a versatile as a tweed can get. I love my brown one, and now I have two in this fabric. The colors in both are nice and variegated. The softness of the fabric, moreover, works well with the soft tailoring.


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Originally Posted by George
Coat > on > rotunda > camera > picture > post > praise > FNB.com > backlash.

You know the drill.


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Originally Posted by patrickBOOTH
Does this one have a one piece back like your brown one?

No, I didn't think it necessary since the pattern is not in that class of...loud.


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Originally Posted by Slewfoot
Great belly on that lapel. I was just thinking the other day how I'd like for Chan to incorporate some belly Chan into my W. Bill tweed I'm having them make up in Hong Kong this week when I'm there.

I look forward to seeing photographs of it when it is done.


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Originally Posted by srivats
That fabric is lovely, Vox ... the pocket is
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I am very pleased with them...and the conversation from which we elicited the shapes from Edwin's early memory of older A&S jackets was a fun one.

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Originally Posted by T4phage
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another pretty vox
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Glad you like. Thanks.

Perhaps there will be beautiful tears to collect when I put it on, but I am optimistic.


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Why didn't Mahon return to Steed when he finished his "hiatus"? Is there a major difference in the way he cuts?
 

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Originally Posted by patrickBOOTH
Why didn't Mahon return to Steed when he finished his "hiatus"? Is there a major difference in the way he cuts?

It wasn't a hiatus. I believe that Tom decided to get out of tailoring altogether and helped to run a pub for awhile. Edwin bought out Tom's share of Steed in 2000.

Tom did keep a few clients, though...not sure how that worked. The rest of the story is presented by one point of view, which was posted earlier in this thread: from the first draft of Chapter 6, A World-Class Product, from Evil Plans, a book due according to the author Hugh MacLeod to be published by Penguin in 2011.


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Originally Posted by voxsartoria
New for me, old (pre-1980s) for A&S: smaller, more compound curves and rounded edges, with the hip pockets up off more from the hem.

Good call. Looks really nice.

Originally Posted by voxsartoria
the new, slightly curvier cutaway/fronts/quarters.

Do you have a photo? I'd love to see the newer curvier front cutaway shape. I think the A&S school make them a bit too square.
 

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Originally Posted by Parker
Good call. Looks really nice.

Do you have a photo? I'd love to see the newer curvier front cutaway shape. I think the A&S school make them a bit too square.


Thank you, Big P. I'll try to accommodate your photo request.

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Originally Posted by voxsartoria
I love it. I might end up loving it as much as your Internet father, who has determined that his Ruby in this is his favorite suit when the weather cooperates. Have you seen him in it?

It is indeed very nice in person. So much so that I had to get one, too.
 

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