The London Lounge

I will spare the others the details of why,
but I am a fan of Zimmerli.
Buy one pair and judge for yourself is the best advice I can offer.

Those jackets look fabulous on you!

Perhaps because he married a lowly suburbanite?
(I say that with tongue in cheek, she is from the burbs of my home town).

Gabe, I had lunch with Jack from Samuelsohn today and we spoke of your question on H+S cloth. He very graciously lent me three books to look at for you, there is one in the series that he no longer has, book 123. The problem lies in that there seems to be no direct reference to the H+S books, there ...

Jack has been away from the office for the better part of two weeks, I happen to meeting him for lunch this Friday, May 2nd, to get some production questions answered. If you have any specific questions, please let me know and I will ask him during out lunch tomorrow. You may e mail me directly at: ...

Until you find exactly what you are after,
I have successfully used an unscented, non colored, pure soap bar.

I can not answer your question directly, but I may suggest you drop the production manager a note, via:

JackG@samuelsohn.com

I have a fair bit of Samuelsohn and he has been very kind to me.

I have very little experience in this area in London, but I have visited on several occasions at the Royal Automobile Club (Pall Mall) and found it to be a wonderful place. A ladies only lounge, gent only too, great turkish baths, dinning area was warm and the food very acceptable. You would get dis...

Algernon wrote:

There is nothing right [...] about the man.

I thought he was very much on the right?

Sorry.

Well done, yes he is indeed right as in right wing,
he is also wing, as in wing nut! (politics aside, I speak of the man, not the color of his tie).

But for the moment, he is the "right honorable".

"The Right Honourable Stephen Joseph Harper, Prime Minister of Canada"

There is nothing right, nor honorable about the man,
however, protocol states that this is the title we must bestow upon him, for the time being.

I too have a Bamboo RTW. It is a very soft and comfortable fabric. It does wrinkle, more than wool, less than linen. I could not not see myself having a closet full of them, but a few certainly.

JamesT1 wrote:I've always done that by hand - cutting the thread at each stitch and then cutting inbetween the two layers. I had no idea there was a tool for that.

I believe he said he bought his in France, where he apprenticed.

Thank you gentlemen, I have been visiting a tailor and taking pictures, following one bespoke suit from cloth selection to completion. The tailor has three people who work for him, he does most of the "big" work and all the measuring, fittings and cutting himself, the others sew seams, button holes ...

Bespoke terminology 101,


Taliors and bespoke buyers,
I can not seem to find the proper term for this manner of marking,
does anyone know the correct term??

Thank you,

Good morning Mr. Alden, I am not aware of a method to post a pdf, but you can post .png files by taking screen snaps of the PDF when it is open to full size covering your screen and then post the .png If you need assistance, please email me the pdf, I will create the .png files and email them back t...