Settling in

[carl browne]

Gentlemen:

Just received my first 20 oz. suit, a great tan cavalry twill. It's made of very stern stuff. The the collar doesn't want to fall back into its proper place against the back of my neck as readily as I'd like after swinging or raising my arms. Instead, it hovers about 1/4 inch back for a while, until I shrug my shoulders slightly. It always falls into place--eventually.

I wonder if this is a common thing as the coat settles in, or if it is more likely to be a slight problem with fit. The suit was made by a SR tailor known for its structured, "hard" tailoring, and between the heavy cloth and the canvassing, it's pretty stiff.

Your views?

[Frog in Suit]

Give it time. Your sons, if any, will inherit it from you. If not, your grandsons. Only make sure they grow into your size.
Frog in Suit

[carl browne]

FIS

Thanks.

No sons, but will encourage my daughters to marry men my size in hopes of providing me a suitable heir for it.

I could also have myself buried in it, but it's the wrong color for that, I think.

C

[Frog in Suit]

FIS

I could also have myself buried in it, but it's the wrong color for that, I think.

C

You and your Maker will be the only judges of that. I am now sixty and cannot help but think that my clothes now in the pipeline (a 25 oz. dark grey cloth overcoat amongst others...) will outlast me. I am still wearing some 25 year old garments, so this is not too farfetched, if slightly morbid .

[carl browne]

FIS

Your commissions are an Affirmation of Life. In fact, if I were diagnosed with a life threatening illness, the first thing I would do would be to order a new suit. It would be gratifying to have something in the works, and it would be a personal victory every time I wore it.

C

[JCH]

Agree, nothing for it but to exit well dressed.

[storeynicholas]

Towards the end of his life the poet John Donne took this so far as to lie in his shroud.
NJS

[couch]

Melodramatic to the end, was our Johnny.

(to his glory and our great benefit, I hasten to add)

[Jordan Marc]

Actor George Sanders, who was known as 'The Velvet Lizard' for the droll way he delivered lines on screen, is reputed to have dressed up in white tie and tails before commiting suicide on a pool table. Not the easiest way of making an exit. The funniest way of taking a final bow belongs to Noel Coward, who was
once asked by a reporter how he wanted to die. Coward, without missing a beat, said: "By hearing a joke on
the BBC."

JMB

[Greger]

Sounds like a fitting problem to me. I'd take it back for an adjustment. For the price you paid this problem shouldn't exist.

White Tie would be nice. By the time some of you guys get old enough to die will there be anyone who really knows how to make one? You punks had better start making up some reasons to wear white tie so the knowledge and skills get pasted on to the younger tailors or you will be wearing a pretend white tie for the grave (and that is a grave loss ).