Peter Harvey and Graham Lawless of tailors
Davies & Son were in the City yesterday, which gave them the opportunity to watch yours truly trying on a vested suit of Smith's Whole Fleece 15 ounce worsted in the 90 degree (32 C) heat. The suit was perfect (I had had some initial concerns about the sleeve length but those turned out to have more to do with the sleeve length of the button cuff shirt I had on when I first tried the jacket).
I am told that there is no more of the mid-gray Whole Fleece available, which seems a shame as it was arguably the best cloth on the market. Whole Fleece was made the old fashioned way, as it were, from the entire fleece of Merino sheep instead of today's more common practice of sorting the fibers by width with the intent of selling them as Super this and that.
With no adjustments required on the suit, we spent a few minutes looking unsuccessfully for a light gray gabardine heavier than nine ounces (too wrinkle-prone) and some 13 ounce white cashmere for a waistcoat that I could wear with the checked gray flannel that will be for next Fall.
Single breasted suit with double breasted waistcoat by Davies & Son worn with Michael Drake's mid-blue grenadine necktie and a DJA shirting by Joe Hemrajani. The pocket square was in the jacket I wore to the fitting.
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Absolutely stunning. My favourite suit you've posted.
Dear Will,
Thank you so much for showing the real thing done. I´m glad I got some of the last metres of the mid-gray. Yeah!
Awesome.
I presume you´re having the Eden cloth with the white waistcoat, just like the picture. But it has to be made of cashmere?
Best,
LG
The waistcoat will indeed be for the Eden flannel, and white or cream seems like the best choice for an odd vest. Flannel would work as well as cashmere if you could find any 13 ounce flannel in that color which you can't.
But Brummel preferred cashmere waistcoats and they may be the best place to wear the stuff. Remember, waistcoats use only half a yard of cloth, so the cost penalty is much less than it is for any other kind of tailored clothing.
Beautiful suit, Will. Nice shirt-and-tie combo, too.
Very nice, Will! And I promise not to tease you concerning the absence of a PS, or whether the film Wall Street inspired your shirt. (As I have little doubt such inspiration well predates Hollywood’s appropriation.)
I love the idea of a contrasting waistcoat with your upcoming check suit. However, the thought of an actual stark-white waistcoat feels jarring. Am I correct in assuming that you more likely intend the nice, rich cream color that woolens ordinarily obtain?
The suit will be from the London Lounge Cloth Club version of the cloth in the illustration:
http://asuitablewardrobe.dynend.com/2010/10/formality-is-principally-in-details.html
Either white or cream would work.
Will,
Is that the mid Grey whole fleece (2572)? It is beautiful.
I just ordered 4M of the Navy (2575) and Dark Grey (2573) whole fleece. I have been asking for the mid grey for over a year now and I finally decided to take what I could get and order the dark grey.
Amazing suit, it is my favorite that you have posted.
Comare the elegance of Will's suit to this "Ivy/Prep" look. The editor if Ivy Style photographed by unabashedly prep. I find it neither Prep nor Ivy.
http://www.unabashedlyprep.com/site/entry/gray-matter/success/
Go Will, go. You are helping people daily to dress with better style while avoiding costume dressing.
Magnificent!
oh dear me... that Ivy look :-(
I wonder what it is that attracts people to suits that were essentially designed to simplify an industrial process...
I second everyone's comments on the suit, Will. You are, as they asy, killing it.
Would you please, please, please post more pictures of it?
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