The London Lounge

Foo's are midnight grosgrain

Ercoles does good work, but he's in Manhattan only once or twice a week.

The brown chalk from elegant illusion is a thing of beauty

I thought it would be nice to start a thread for pictures of proper dinner suits. I remember Costi posted pictures of a very unique and special cream dupioni dinner jacket, but alas they are nowhere to be found. I think everyone, myself included, could benefit from quality examples of proportions in...

I would skip vbc flannel for the very reason that any flannel less than 13oz isn't really a flannel. Minnis has a solid flannel bunch if you're looking for alternatives but I don't believe they carry cream. I would go with the offering from fox.

alden wrote:

I wonder if the book will include a plain, marbled gray flannel

The plain English grey is FS405 B2237/81

I have not had time to photograph it yet.

Cheers

Is it essentially the same shade of grey as the "mid grey" put forth by minnis?

http://www.fototime.com/457F7390D25D877/medium800.jpg Holland and Sherry Gamekeeper Tweed. Looks very similar to this fabric made by robert noble: http://robert-noble.co.uk/tasks/render/file/index.cfm?fileid=DC9E3AAF-2E97-46E6-89C17505644BDD69 I wonder if they wove it for h&s, the only difference I...

I recommend signing up for the Cloth Club Camel Overcoating

^ teach don't preach

^ So lets make the LL Camel a reality

old henry wrote:Mr. Alden might could do this.
Cloth Club Thornproof ?

I think its a great idea, 700g gunclub tweed

old henry wrote:Johnstons has discontinued the 24oz.

Any way to get them to produce it again if we had enough interested parties, like a CC subscription

Anyone have contact information for JofE, I saw this tweed and instantly fell in love, I want to request samples

Any pics of the final product? I have to say picking a DJ fabric is so much more difficult than any suit

Nice, ull get your finished suit before me even