Great found! Indeed, tailors and cordwainers are endangered species in many corners of the world. The passeggiata Mr Talese refers to was earlier a widespread phenomenon, but now we are passive spectators of an omnipresent flood of labels and blue jeans. The spectre of vulgarity and lack of sartorial consciousness looms large. It is solitary battle we fight, but a noble one...
That opening comment seems, well, less than thought through and more than a tad myopic. There is room for sartorial pleasures, but one must step outside solipsistic ways of viewing the world and put things in perspective.
I was most surprised that he bought off the rack. If I am mistaken and those designers he showed at the beginning of the piece offer bespoke or made to measure services, someone please correct me.
Turling, the RTW clothes mentioned may have been for the audience of the magazine who are unlikely to have heard of his Italian tailors. I've seen him in more than a dozen bespoke suits.
I have always been a great fan of Talese's dress. Note that the suits he presents from the 60s and 70s don't look terribly dated (although I am not sure if he had the flared trousers altered).
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Great found! Indeed, tailors and cordwainers are endangered species in many corners of the world. The passeggiata Mr Talese refers to was earlier a widespread phenomenon, but now we are passive spectators of an omnipresent flood of labels and blue jeans. The spectre of vulgarity and lack of sartorial consciousness looms large. It is solitary battle we fight, but a noble one...
That opening comment seems, well, less than thought through and more than a tad myopic. There is room for sartorial pleasures, but one must step outside solipsistic ways of viewing the world and put things in perspective.
I was most surprised that he bought off the rack. If I am mistaken and those designers he showed at the beginning of the piece offer bespoke or made to measure services, someone please correct me.
Turling, the RTW clothes mentioned may have been for the audience of the magazine who are unlikely to have heard of his Italian tailors. I've seen him in more than a dozen bespoke suits.
On the couple of occasions that I have bumped into Mr. Talese he was dressed in suit and tie and dressed beautifully.
He expanded upon the theme that tailors are an endangered species in an article for Esquire which I believe is available on line.
Nice video. I'm surprised he bought Pierre Cardin, who is not exemplary of classical style.
I have always been a great fan of Talese's dress. Note that the suits he presents from the 60s and 70s don't look terribly dated (although I am not sure if he had the flared trousers altered).
MHampton
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