summer projects

[ay329]

Yialabis...the first jacket's 3 buttons look elegant and the discreet jacket pockets...slightly angled, are awesome. You have inspired me to try this look on my Windsor tweed project

I also like the navy blue jacket (is this a 2.5 roll 3?)

Am unsure if the tan jacket with the subtle windowpane is a 3 button or a 3 roll 2?

I like the cut of all 3 jackets...but the 3 button just looks the nicest on you

[unbelragazzo]

Great stuff - What fabric did you use for that cream DB? I'm thinking of getting something similar made, but with some different buttons and patch pockets.

[Costi]

However, those MOP buttons look great on this summer coat (linen?).

[yialabis]

They are beautiful. The cream DB. All of them. Wow.. So much character. I like the length and the button placement and the high lapels. The overall look is very individual. The suits are you.
The Tailor is a fine craftsman. You look great. I wish I could work with him. I would learn some things. Shattuck F

Frank , thank you for your kind words . Mr George has been nearly 60 years around and I'm sure anyone can learn a lot from him . I learn the most out of the stories he tells me about old Athens old distinguished Athenians and the way we use to dress ..A lot of people in Greece would argue (rightly so in a way) that style is not important when we go through the worse employment crisis in the last 50 years .Mr George says that in Athens people dressed even during the war and the civil war that came after the II world war .. people did not have anything to eat but they did not lose according to him two things : their courage and their sense of style ..They had only one suit , they put it on every day ,but it was most of the time made by a local tailor.

Frank mentions the length - I was thinking before that, if the front quarters were more closed, I'd probably think the coats are longer than I'd like them. But as they are cut, with their open quarters, the length is perfect. Shorter and closed or longer and open - seems to be a sensible rule, if applied with good taste.

Costi , the creme DB was actually 1.5 cm longer to start with , I decided to shorten it and I think I made the right decision .It is a good point you are making about the open qrts ..I haven't thought about it before .

Frank, you might learn some things from this tailor, but I'm sure you'd enjoy working with a customer like Vassilis, too!

Senior , you always have a appreciative - genuine way to relate to people and situations ... Today for many personal reasons that wouldn't be appropriate to share on this forum I appreciate it even more than I usually do..

Yialabis...the first jacket's 3 buttons look elegant and the discreet jacket pockets...slightly angled, are awesome. You have inspired me to try this look on my Windsor tweed project

Ay329 ,I am honoured to inspire you .That is fine linen coat that I have enjoyed wearing a lot even with blue jeans .All the coats except the DB are 2.5 roll 3 ..

What fabric did you use for that cream DB?

Unbelragazzo , this is a heavy vintage Irish linen I found sometime ago in one of my strolls around the old Athenian quarter .. It weights around 370gr .

regards
Vassilis

[old henry]

Poeple had one suit and they wore it every day` ? The cloth had better be sturdy and the suit must fit properly so as not to pull and strain and wear out and the hand work must be done so as to hold it all together. This is what old tailors used to make suits for and this is where true style comes from. NOT from thinking about it and thinking about it and trying to have it. Those with true style have no idea they have it and they really dont care. FS

[davidhuh]

Those with true style have no idea they have it. FS

Dear Frank,

"amen" - that's all I can say

cheers, david

[Costi]

Those with true style have no idea they have it. FS

Dear Frank,

"amen" - that's all I can say

cheers, david

In saecula saeculorum...

[alden]

This is what old tailors used to make suits for and this is where true style comes from. NOT from thinking about it and thinking about it and trying to have it. Those with true style have no idea they have it and they really dont care. FS

Gentlemen

You can print this one out and pin it to your wall. Reread daily.

Nice one Frank!

Michael

[old henry]

Can a member please post a few photos of the father in "The Bicycle Thief". This is what yaibalis' tailor knows.This is style. This man IS his life. The suit is his life. His hands and his son are his life. His suit has more style than Cary Grant and Adolph Whats-his-name put together times 10. Style comes from "being" your life. Not decorating it.

[Costi]

"Express rather than decorate" - that is a great principle, though rather hard to follow when there is little to express...
When you find what is there to express (and there always is, if you look for it inside), you are so busy expressing that you have no time to think about decoration.

[old henry]

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[alden]

Style comes from "being" your life. Not decorating it.

Another pearl Frank, well said.

Costi is saying that people who are obsessed with decorating themselves, "need to get a life!" ..in order to find Style since style does come from "being" your life.

Michael

[alden]

[old henry]

Look at the sleeves. Armholes up up . Cloth today would not wear long enoulgh for a suit to take on that much character.

[Costi]

Style comes from "being" your life. Not decorating it.

Another pearl Frank, well said.

Costi is saying that people who are obsessed with decorating themselves, "need to get a life!" ..in order to find Style since style does come from "being" your life.

Michael

Thanks, Michael, great translation, it's worrying that I'm beginning to need it...