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Hectorm, as person born and educated in Naples I can confirm that in the neapolitan languange the term ´´ pizzella ´´just indicates the '´ pizza fritta ´´ whose size is smaller than that of baked pizza. Angelo

Levantine, unfortunately following the suggestions of a friend, I tried last year Sabatini in Rome. The results were a full disaster;despite my advices and three fittings none of the six commissioned shirts fulfilled my expectations. Really not worth trying.

hectorm wrote: Just for harmless fun (or discussion): Cowe´s Royal Regatta takes place in August (also in 1910). King George V´s became King in May 1910 when his father died (but his Coronation was in 1911). So it seems that maybe the blazer wearing Duke was already a blazer wearing King. Dear Hect...

couch wrote:On the other hand, an increasing number of people seem not to know the term odd jacket or sport jacket, or simply jacket, and call everything a blazer. Perfectly right. Indeed the blazer term identifies a coat with metal buttons and/or a crest attached to the breast pocket that indicate...

As far as chambray, Simmonot Godard offers this fabric in a wide range of beautiful colors including in addition to several shades of blue also pink, salmon, lemmon yellow and light green.

Angelo

Dear Hectorm and Frederic ,thank You very much for Your comments and suggestions. Hectorm wrote Those standards might help with the costs and predictability of the industry, particularly when the buttons and the buttonholes are sewn and cut by machine, but IMO don´t make much sense for the best bala...

Dear LL Members, I am going to have for spring and summer seasons a new DB dinner jacket (4x1) made with the tonik 2000 Dormeuil fabric in a royal blue tonality.The revers will be covered with midnight blue cord silk facings purchased from Bernstein & Banleys LTD (http://www.theliningcompany.co.uk)....

I am posting better the picture with the precise URL:http://www.noveporte.it/taccuino/tau/gr ... dfoto=6531.

Angelo

Fred Astaire in a curious snapshot from the Let's Dance movie (USA,1950): http://www.noveporte.it/taccuino/tau/list.php3?idcategoria=1 . He is wearing a 6x2 DB light gray flannel suit(Anderson & Sheppard), buttoned up in a degagé fashion to the lower button.The heavy weight fabric has a spectacular ...

From Fox Brothers' Archives the splendid series of grey flannels ,woven in 1920's, I was referring to in my previous post: http://www.themerchantfox.co.uk/35/mr-f ... n-one-grey.

Angelo

Minh,
sorry for the mistake.The page I was referring to in my previous post is 123 and not 135.

Angelo

Dear Minh , thank You very much for this new series of superb images. I have been really impressed by the mélangée effect of the grey flanell trousers shown in the fashion sketch at page 135 of Avril 1935 Esquire issue. Such a beautiful flannel is nowadays almost impossible to find even in the swatc...

Here is an example of silk moire' facings from a rigorous and classic dinner jacket.

http://www.noveporte.it/taccuino/tau/gr ... dfoto=6517.

Angelo

Oscarsfan, although I have no direct evidence, I believe that the Knize dinner jacket was not part of a dinner suit and consequently did not have trousers of the same fabric, but more likely as a "pure" DJ was associated to black evening trousers that could have had or not a side seam black silk ban...

At least in the 1950s Eden ' s tailor was Welsh & Jefferies who made also some suits for Sir Winston Churchill. I do not know whether Welsh & Jefferies have made suits for Eden also in the previous decades. Angelo