Dastardly details

[alden]

I believe that bespoke clothing has import and merits our custom to the extent that it facilitates elegant dress, or at least dressing well. An overly microscopic focus on clothes and detail does not an elegant man make. Quite to the contrary, the obsessive personality is rarely elegant. Details are not an end unto themselves.

Take the example of our purported bespoke client reclining with his host of friends studying the details of his clothes. Button holes, lap seams, lapel stitching…what wonders to see!



But what does dear Gulliver look like? How does he dress? How do his clothes fit? Not a single of the little men would be able to tell you! The next time you are bombarded with photos of details, think to ask to see a head to toe picture: the fit of the clothes and the way the men are dressed will then be revealed and you will know if the details served any purpose or not. If they did, you may have learned something…Oh, and if they can't provide you a head to toe picture, that should tell you something all the same.

Cheers

M Alden

[RWS]

A propos of very little, the sturdy brick main buildings of the American Thread Company, spinner of the eponymous "Willimantic", still stand in Willimantic, Connecticut. Of course, production itself ended long ago.

[storeynicholas]

I entirely agree that, in the words of Ben Jonson, in dress, there must be some 'sweet neglect' or, in those of Hardy Amies: a well- dressed man should look as though he selected his clothes with intelligence, put them on with care ........and then forgot all about them..