The London Lounge

Gentlemen,

I'm pondering on a new sports jacket -- to be made either from POW check (black and white or gray with blue overcheck or brown with crimson overcheck), sepherd's check (black, gray or brown) or dogtooth (again, black, gray or brown) cloth. You see -- I'm definitely very far from setting my mind.

All checks listed above are readily available from several cloth merchants. However, we all know that there is cloth and there is cloth... So, I need your helping hand.

What merchants / books you would suggest that

a) feature one of the checks listed above
b) have all the qualities (both visible and invisible) that we value: "body" and "guts", rich colours, springness, robustness, etc, etc

?

BTW, any opinions on the idea itself -- to make a sports jacket (NOT a suit) in one of aformentioned checks? I have my doubts... for example, is POW really suitable for anything other than suits?

Andrey

andreyb wrote:is POW really suitable for anything other than suits?

I would say yes, particularly in coarser weaves, tweeds, larger scale patterns, non-B&W colour schemes...

I have a flannel suit in Minnis 0341 (brown with burnt orange overcheck), which I often wear as a separate, and I'll also have no hesitation in wearing my RAF Brisa jacket separately once it's made up.

andreyb,
Costi is right. The larger and tweedier the pattern for POW in a sports jacket, the better.
Like you, I enjoy brightly coloured patterns in my tweeds. However, recently I got a Harris Tweed black and grey hound's tooth. When adorned with a colourful hank, scarf etc....it looks great and I have been complimented on it by strangers. I'm a great believer in Less is more, but I have a tendency to want bangs for the buck in bespoke, making it hard to limit the colour palate in tweeds. Nevertheless, here is what I'm currently considering...almost monochrome, but with a faint mustard over check...I see it in an Agnelli kind of way. For POW, I would suggest a large pattern toned down with muted colours....
Go to Scotweb...scroll down the left hand side and find the search box...lots of lovely jacket patterns to look at.... including a few lovely rich muted colours in POW Harris...
http://www.scotweb.co.uk/

In any case, it's all down to personal choice. I hope you are delighted with whatever you decide..Rowly.

ˆGreat one, Rowly, I would call it "Autumn evening"...

Great PoW odd coat advice - large scale, muted colours

Excellent pic, Costi. That is one aristocratic, flaneur looking POW. It looks as if the other guy in the pic can't take his eyes off it. There is a Harrisons Moonbeam a bit like it--( maybe too soft)...but in a b&w tweed ( perhaps a few brown threads to soften it ), how great that would look.
The hunt begins....