What colour POW cloth?

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kolecho
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Sat Apr 14, 2007 12:07 am

What base colour would you recommend for a POW suiting cloth if the jacket needs to double up as an odd jacket?

Would you add a ticket pocket also?
Cantabrigian
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Sat Apr 14, 2007 12:55 am

Sounds like the 'best of both' tweed suiting could fit the bill nicely.

http://thelondonlounge.net/gl/forum/vie ... php?t=6302

To make sure that it will look like an odd jacket when you need it to, I would go for either a ticket pocket or hacking pockets unless you would need it to serve as a serious business suit.
luk-cha

Sat Apr 14, 2007 1:04 am

K you could go for somethin like these!

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manton
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Sat Apr 14, 2007 1:05 am

Yeah, black and white is probably the most versatile. Maybe it's just me, but once you add a colored overplaid it just looks like a suiting to me.
jwilliams
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Sat Apr 14, 2007 5:12 am

What base colour would you recommend for a POW suiting cloth if the jacket needs to double up as an odd jacket?
Perhaps someone would help me out. I thought the POW check had a specific color arrangement: red-brown check, white ground, slate gray overplaid. Isn't any deviation from that arrangement just a large Glen Plaid?


kolecho, black and white may be the most versatile, but I must say that I really like the color and pattern of the suit with the flower in the lapel in luk-cha's post. It's color is somber enough for a suit, but it's pattern is bold enough for an odd coat. Very nice.
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