"A suit from me, Mickie, it's not a drunken scream. It's line, it's form, it's rock of eye, it's silhouette. It's the understatement that tells the world what it needs to know about you and no more. Old Braithwaite called it discretion. If somebody notices a suit of mine, I'm embarrassed because there must be something wrong with it. My suits aren't about improving your appearance or making you the prettiest boy in the room. My suits are not confrontational. They hint. They imply. They encourage people to come to you. They help you improve your life, pay your debts, be an influence in the world."
-John le Carré, The Tailor of Panama
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Very elegant picture you found for this. The first thing I look for in a suit is side vents, ticket pocket and the fit of the jacket.
John
NYC
The black stripes combine very well with black shoes, don't they?
Is that a reverse pin / chalk stripe? Is anybody making suits in that cloth at the moment?
It's a reversed chalk stripe flannel. I know of a group of men who commissioned a length last year on their own but to my knowledge no-one is weaving it for inventory today.
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