October 31, 2006
overcoat
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Is this hand-made overcoat the bomb or what?
I could tell you how much it costs, but then I would have to kill you.
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Beautiful Coat. I’m trying to imagine it in leather.
Living in the Southern USA, there is no practical use for such a wonderful item of clothing.
oh my yes…it is extraordinary!
Jeez, what a piece! Doesn’t look like I could afford it.
It not the bomb; its the bomdigity (gosh!)
Would my soul cover it? Probably not, eh? A coat like that. Nice coat.
Ummm, it’s just a coat?
Anon, yes, it is just a coat. And a Mazerati is just a car that gets you from A-B.
It all depends what geeks you out.
I still want to know where you can get the thing drycleaned and pressed. Much of tailoring is done with understitching and pressing. And lots can be undone with a bad press. Not that a lay person would understand that. Not that I could be a tailor or anything.
So, Hugh, you working on that globabl marketing drycleaning service?
okay
I’ve always wanted to know the reasoning being the four useless buttons that annoy me (both aesthetically and functionally) at the end of each sleeve? it feels so overcrowded (and did I mention useless?)
historical reason?
I figured you would know, with all your tailoring friends …
fb, on savile row suits, you can actually unbutton the buttons and roll up the sleeves of your suit, if you want.
all design on a savlie row suit is influenced by early 19th century military tailoring. savile row still makes uniforms for officers.
so their function on the sleeve cuff is the same as the function on a shirt sleeve cuff… whether that function is useful or not to yourself, only you can decide.
hugh
to employ more button makers.
that previous comment was about function.
aesthetics would be to employ more button artists as the better rose to the top and made prettier buttons.
well i dont believe that story about Napolean and snotty noses. Urban myth, I am sure somebody wrote it up the truth on “waterloo fibs revealed” back then and the file was lost. Oh my, abba.
You know, as I sit here looking at my pirate costume, I am thinking, those buttons on the captain’s jacket look like gold coins, and others look like pearls and still others could be ivory.
The buttons on the shirt underneath are all missing, though they were covered with silk.
doncha think, buttons –and a superficial four in a row– were to flaunt a man’s wealth.
As for rolling up sleeves, I guess a norwegian-pattern or irish– cable knit sweater is handy in that the cuff and waist ribbing always gives and takes. Knitting was relegated to the dames, though. I still believe the fisherman developed for their net working.
I had a feeling it had to do with the military, but I couldn’t come to the conclusion that anybody would roll up their suit’s sleeves. It would bother me to get my sleeves all wrinkled; I tend to want to remove the jacket altogether, but that’s just me.
It’s actually an interesting unusual personal ‘hvac’ function.
Well, thanks a lot for all this info, Hugh.
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Four buttons in a row is one thing, but four buttonholes in a row is another. Hugh wouldn’t that weaken the fabric?
I am assuming they are not bound, but handstitched with a corded buttonholestitch embroidery as in standard on men’s tailoring.