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Both pairs were likely purchased by the Mum from Markies' 'Blue Harbour' line. The son will also be wearing a half-zip fleece.
 
MES said:
I can't quite make out the colour of those jeans but I do think that there's a very specific light blue wash that country and rugby types tend to wear fairly often. The dad will have it in a loose fit with tan brogues, the son in a very slim pair and darker boots.
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MES said:
Both pairs were likely purchased by the Mum from Markies' 'Blue Harbour' line. The son will also be wearing a half-zip fleece.
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Too f’ing real. . .
 
FriendCustomer said:
you ask for a Brit's opinion, you got one. do what you want. But I'd imagine the legit “lo stile anglese” would be those viyella country check style shirts (add a jumper and country tie too).
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Brushed cotton check as well.
 
Morning dopers. Time for EPO and cycling.


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CesareRomiti said:
Manica a mappina
Something i would not do on suits any more.

The fabric is a flannel from the old hfw english flannels book.
Obviously for ever exhausted.
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Manica a camicia and manica a mappina are one and the same. 'A mappina' is the technique used to create the a camicia wotsit. 'Mappina' being, in the Neapolitan dialect, a rag. The sleeve is wider than the armhole, so it looks like a hanging rag.

There.

Otherwise, it doesn't suit you at all. You need some padding. Actually I don't think unpadded shoulders look good on office suits. For a sport jacket, worn in a casual environment, maybe. For an office suit in a dark fabric, it just looks off to me.
 
Capstone said:
How come? Aren't most of your suits done that way?
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50/50, some like this some like that.

Edit: Sorry, did not answer the why question- i just feel that the “normal” shoulder feels more IMPORTANT thus more appropriate for business suits
 
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TheUntermensch said:
Manica a camicia and manica a mappina are one and the same. 'A mappina' is the technique used to create the a camicia wotsit. 'Mappina' being, in the Neapolitan dialect, a rag. The sleeve is wider than the armhole, so it looks like a hanging rag.

There.

Otherwise, it doesn't suit you at all. You need some padding. Actually I don't think unpadded shoulders look good on office suits. For a sport jacket, worn in a casual environment, maybe. For an office suit in a dark fabric, it just looks off to me.
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Untermensch suit science. Ololol! It does suit Cesare. Easy of move and comfort are a top priority. Cesare is strongly-Aryan built, not super sloped like Craptom. He doesn't need padding. Personally I prefer the camicia morbida cadente which is cleaner.
 
Manica a mappina and manica a camicia refer to different things, so they are not the same. Manica a camicia refers to the way the seam allowances are pressed towards the body while manica a mappina is just the result of extra ease in the sleevehead without much or any wadding. You could have one, the other, both or none.
 
rdiaz said:
Manica a mappina and manica a camicia refer to different things, so they are not the same. Manica a camicia refers to the way the seam allowances are pressed towards the body while manica a mappina is just the result of extra ease in the sleevehead without much or any wadding. You could have one, the other, both or none.
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That's true - and humble - suit science.
 
Jupiter said:
That's true - and humble - suit science.
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Well I suppose you could have a manica a camicia where the sleevehead matches the armhole, so I'll grant you the two are not the same. That would be camicia without mappina. But realistically, could you have mappina without camicia? Or have British tailors been doing it all the while?

Now I'm confused, and it's past lunchtime.
 
rdiaz said:
Manica a mappina and manica a camicia refer to different things, so they are not the same. Manica a camicia refers to the way the seam allowances are pressed towards the body while manica a mappina is just the result of extra ease in the sleevehead without much or any wadding. You could have one, the other, both or none.
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Proper Suit Scientist.
 
TheUntermensch said:
Well I suppose you could have a manica a camicia where the sleevehead matches the armhole, so I'll grant you the two are not the same. That would be camicia without mappina. But realistically, could you have mappina without camicia? Or have British tailors been doing it all the while?

Now I'm confused, and it's past lunchtime.
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It would be possible, in fact I'd swear I have seen roped gathered sleeveheads in some iGent pics in the past, although it's certainly much more common with a shirt shoulder.
 
Barbours with giacche are very eyetalianindustrialist but I'd wear a woollen tie. Not printed silk, not jacquard, not knitted silk.
 
aristoi bcn said:
Barbours with giacche are very eyetalianindustrialist but I'd wear a woollen tie. Not printed silk, not jacquard, not knitted silk.
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It's a Barbour for keeping out the rain, whilst it's good to match, it's also acceptable to use it functionally and be damned with pairing it. It's the sprezza, English cool and nonchalance way of wearing it.
 
aristoi bcn said:
Barbours with giacche are very eyetalianindustrialist but I'd wear a woollen tie. Not printed silk, not jacquard, not knitted silk.
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I'm looking to get some brushed cotton shirts as well. don't really see the reason to wear a wooly tie anyways, anything that goes with tweed pretty much will work imo
 
aristoi bcn said:
Barbours with giacche are very eyetalianindustrialist but I'd wear a woollen tie. Not printed silk, not jacquard, not knitted silk.
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Eyetaliandustralists wear down jackets with their giacche, not Barbours. Molto Milano. Molto sprezz. Sleeveless for Hypersprezz.

Of course you need the permatan or ski tan, and haircut to go with it.
 
28C yesterday. Silk /Cotton Hawaiian shirt untucked.
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At the tram stop in city I was pleased to see this checked tweedy jacket. Especially on a HOT day. I felt underdressed in my untucked short sleeved shirt. I wanted to ask him if the shoulder was a manica a camicia or a camicia without mappina or a mappina without camicia or a spalla cadente morbida or manica a palloncino or as the much missed sarto might say a maniaco-depressivo.

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I thought to my self - here is a fellow iGentt. It might be one of my Spanish/Canadian friends. rdiaz rdiaz , viaattovannucci viaattovannucci or FriendCustomer . How nice to meet a fellow clothes fan.
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Yes - they are huge stainless steel Spacer Ear Holes!
A well put together outfit - ticks all boxes, Tweed jacket on hot day, topknot in hair, big sunshades to eyes, music in ears, fancy boot/shoes, wrist hardware, etc etc - sadly lacking smelly wax Barbour
You guess which one of my online friends this is - Look spanish to you?
 
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fxh said:
At the tram stop in city I was pleased to see this checked tweedy jacket.
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Tweedy? Tweed-y? Are you telling me that you couldn't tell with absolute certainty whether the tissu was properly woven in the British Isles or that you couldn't immediately sense the count of the many years by the TOUCH of that gentle, yet extended, tap on his SHOULDERS?

Verri spanish, Untermensch suit science indeed!
 
Jupiter said:
Do you have something else in your wardrobe than this perpetual combination of Barbour, tweed jacket, challis tie, challis tie, tweed jacket and Barbour? It becomes boring... By the way never wear a Tartan scarf with a Barbour in Scotland or we'll find your corpse floating in a loch.
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He stole that barbour off sirloin when sirloin was drunk one night - but I'm not allowed to tell anyone
 
Jupiter said:
Do you have something else in your wardrobe than this perpetual combination of Barbour, tweed jacket, challis tie, challis tie, tweed jacket and Barbour? It becomes boring... By the way never wear a Tartan scarf with a Barbour in Scotland or we'll find your corpse floating in a loch.
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it is a madder tie
the barbour is a recent addition, and I wasn't planning on going to scotland just to wear it with a tartan scarf
but if it's that boring don't worry, I'll take the waywt pics in the morning before I get dressed
 
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