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I like Italian casual:

Luigi Bianchi Mantova (picking up latest suit from a-tionist mañana)

L.B.M. 1911 (still figuring out their pant a-tion)

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I'm looking for a chocolate-brown suede desert boot in a wide fitting. Preferably under $100, as they wont get worn that often (paired with some white jeans). Clarks would be ideal if they did wide. Suggestions?
 
yeah - how wide is your wide?

I have 3 pair of Original Roamers - be careful theres lots of crappy looking Roamers models. Cheap and cheerful - throwaway after 4 years - just like a DB should be - I imagine you'd pick them up for us$40 or so.
 
Rambo said:
How wide?
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Aus 'H', which I think is EE or EEE here. But, honestly, I'd try anything that was wider than Clarks.

The Alden boots look lovely, but too pricey for the limited wear they would get.
 
Dropbear said:
Aus 'H', which I think is EE or EEE here. But, honestly, I'd try anything that was wider than Clarks.

The Alden boots look lovely, but too pricey for the limited wear they would get.
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Yeah, EEE is NEVER going to happen. I remember trying to hunt some down for myself and it was fucking impossible. Even in the expensive options.

Maybe Thruth Thruth knows some foreign brands that make super wide sizes. But I doubt they'd be cheap.
 
Looking ahead at a sweater for winter. Yay or nay?
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Got a new suit today in the mail. SuitSupply Havana cut in a Wool/Silk/Cashmere blend. Weighing up whether I want to keep it or not. Fits very good for OTR, just determining whether I really want it.

I know that Silk in anything automatically makes it a delicate, same for Cashmere. I'm not intending on this to be a per se "workhorse suit" inasmuch as I know it is not suited to that. What sort of specialized care/cleaning does a silk/cashmere blend require that a Super110 wool number wouldn't?
 
Dropbear said:
Aus 'H', which I think is EE or EEE here. But, honestly, I'd try anything that was wider than Clarks.

The Alden boots look lovely, but too pricey for the limited wear they would get.
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Ask thruth if the guy who shoes his horses has some stuff left over!
 
Zé Ferreira said:
Got a new suit today in the mail. SuitSupply Havana cut in a Wool/Silk/Cashmere blend. Weighing up whether I want to keep it or not. Fits very good for OTR, just determining whether I really want it. I know that Silk in anything automatically makes it a delicate, same for Cashmere. I'm not intending on this to be a per se "workhorse suit" inasmuch as I know it is not suited to that. What sort of specialized care/cleaning does a silk/cashmere blend require that a Super110 wool number wouldn't?
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Usually the Cashmere tag is just for marketing and the material itself has bugger all cashmere in it. It does depend on the weave and % of each. Silk isn't all that delicate actually but it doesn't give/stretch much if at all so in effect it becomes delicate because of this element. Usually you'd only clean jackets/suits once a year anyway unless you fall over in the urinal or something one night. Or are draining swamps in winter or cleaning horseshit out of barns in the frozen wastelands of Canada. A loose weave will tend to pull away at the seams a bit in my experience. Depends how you treat your clothes. Like anything you hear a lot of old iGentt tales about silk - that it wears cool f'rinstance - my experience is it wears hot.

Again it all depends on what % of each is in the material, if its a loose weave or not, how tight you wear it, and how hard you are on clothes.
 
Zé Ferreira Zé Ferreira - I've got an old Brooks Brothers odd jacket in a wool-silk blend and it's been very hard-wearing. I've had it for ten or more years and wear it quite a lot and it's only fairly recently that the elbows have started to look a bit shiny. The rest of it's still fine and I think that I'll be wearing it for another few years yet.
 
Pauly Chase said:
Recs on linen pants or cotton/linen pants? Need a a few light pants for summer besides tropical wool.
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Luxire. $80 for some nice linen trousers. Just send in your best fitting pair, and they'll keep the template on file for subsequent orders.
 
Pauly Chase said:
Didn't people have problems using Luxire?
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Nope, the only people who have problems are those who don't know how to describe what they want and use measurements instead of sending in trousers.

So there's an upfront $20 shipping cost because you're sending in your stuff, but once you've done that you'll be fine. I've had my first pair of trousers altered by a Savile row tailor, and he said he liked the way they were made and the handwork.
 
Some guy received a pair of pants with a two inch open seam hole below his pocket and Luxire is baffled how it passes through four stages of inspection.

I ordered my first shirt from them over a month ago, haven't received shipping notice yet. I hope it arrives with buttons and buttonholes.
 
LelandJ said:
Some guy received a pair of pants with a two inch open seam hole below his pocket and Luxire is baffled how it passes through four stages of inspection.

I ordered my first shirt from them over a month ago, haven't received shipping notice yet. I hope it arrives with buttons and buttonholes.
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and without sweat'n'curry smell
 
Yeah, they seem to be getting slower. I've ordered a pair of trousers using a fabric they stock and using an existing pattern, and it's been 4 weeks now.
My last pair used a donegal tweed that needed to be shipped from Ireland and that one arrived in 5 weeks.
 
:challengeaccepted:Can I combine textured chinos, the ones I have previously posted, with a seersucker shirt? kthnksbye
 
LelandJ said:
So question remains unanswered why is it so hard to find.
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I have a few in wool-linen blends, all bespoke or mtm, all pretty close to 50-50. I also have a few similar blends RTW, but RTW makers always seem to want to make it fancier by introducing some complex weave or unnecessary texture or extra fabrics (like silk or cotton. Though cotton isn't a bad fabric to add to the mix, I guess. Not sure what it brings. But it isn't bad).

You may need to go at least MTM for this.

As far as why it's so hard to find--well, it's so hard to find because, as you say, it's casual and so when makers choose to use it, they assume customers aren't going to want something "normal." Which is a shame.
 
I haven't been back to StyleForum in awhile. Do people still like Kent Wang, Sam Hober, etc.?

I'm not looking to buy anything too elaborate - maybe a dress shirt or a tie here & there.

I just went into a Massimo Dutti for the first time and the only thing I wanted to carry out from that retail store was the sales girl. Back online I go?
 
Zé Ferreira said:
Point me in the direction of Igent-approved briefcases, please?
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Fine but you've got to help me at least a little. You want canvas? Filson. You want leather sleek? You can go with something like Swaine or Glaser. You want leather rugged? Something like Saddleback or Hartmann. You want metal? Zero Haliburton.

Not to mention all the custom makers out there. Narrow it down for us.
 
Rambo said:
Fine but you've got to help me at least a little. You want canvas? Filson. You want leather sleek? You can go with something like Swaine or Glaser. You want leather rugged? Something like Saddleback or Hartmann. You want metal? Zero Haliburton.

Not to mention all the custom makers out there. Narrow it down for us.
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You have got to be shitting me.

EDIT: Of course I look at the best-looking and most appealing (read: most expensive) ones first.

Most of these appear to be glamourized satchels. Whatever happened to a briefcase with a handle and hinges?
 
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