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For somethig typically Florentine you can also try Sostanza aka "il Troia" in via Porcellana and for something unique order the Artichoke Tart (Tortino di Carciofi).

I think this is a good example of the drape cut recently executed.

H. Neuber, an institution in Florence, had some beautiful printed ties. I went by recently to visit the store but it was empty.

Jona,
I agree, unfortunately hand printed ties are becoming more difficult to find. It is very interesting, I did not know that woven silk was cheaper than printed, in fact, the woven ties are becoming more and more ubiquitous.

I think so. In Italy the highest compliment you can give a man in matters of style is to say that he has "disinvoltura" or is "disinvolto" which roughly translated means an ease and indifference in manner, basically, making it look easy. This, of course, is practically impossible to fake, it is inna...

Oscarsfan,
Thank you for the pics. I am intrigued by the "boat pocket" which seems to have a very dramatic angle or rake. Is this a signature of your tailor or something that you asked for specifically?

I was passing through Fiumincino airport in Rome and there is a new Sermoneta shop, the quality is excellent and the prices reasonable so I stocked up for the winter season.

This is possible. I have had knitwear made to my specifications in Forte dei Marmi in Italy. There is a small store that specializes in high quality custom cashmere knitwear. I don't know the name or exact location of the store, it is the type of place that when I go to Forte dei Marmi I know where ...

If you are in Taormina then you should visit Catania and Siracusa. Siracusa in particular is a real gem. In Catania, for lunch, go to the fish market there are several resaurants right in the market which are excellent.

At a junk sale at l'Hotel Drouot several years ago there was a whole wardrobe of bespoke suits from Cifonelli being auctioned off. There were about twenty different suits all from the eighties, they were very beautifully made, from the finest cloths and very similar in style to the suits worn in the...

Richard3, Thank you for the explanation and the link. I am very tempted to try one the Budapest style shoes. I was wondering if anyone knew if the stitching along the welt that one finds in some of the more outrageous confections, particularly in Italy, find their origins in these more noble Budapes...

The derogatory comments made about the styling of the Vass shoes betray a provincialism which is only to be expected. I was recently in Vienna and I visited the very elegant store of Ludwig Reiter whose traditional styles seemed very similar to those of Vass, and having no first knowledge of Vass sh...

I think you are referring to Sermonta gloves.

http://www.sermonetagloves.com/en/

Here is a web site devoted to a collection of traditional Tuscan garments. It requires some fooling-with but has lots of interesting pictures and historical essays. http://www.capalbio.com/English/index.htm I would be very curious who these people are: "Global World Foundation," "The Clothing Compa...

One of the characteristics of the "Giacca Maremmana" is a large game pocket in the back, in fact, the two pockets on the front and the large back pocket is one contiguous patch that goes all the way around the jacket. For those who visit Maremma there is a sartoria in Castagneto Carducci that specia...