I wear my Keydge for work and play with tapered dress pants, an ocdb and a knit tie. I find it really softens the "look". Similar to the Pendleton "Topster", the Keydge is light and easy. Never have tried it with jeans, as I prefer to wear a G4 or a G9 with denim.
The RL I have isn't unlined but if Robbie is saying some are then I guess there must be some out there. I cant say ive ever seen one undarted either.
Batteur de femme Ivy....
Libérez-vous mes frères ...
Droit - Je dois aller voir un homme au sujet d'un chien ..
Au revoir pour maintenant mes petites...
xx
Bien que j'aime et possède un keydge, votre comportement poncey putain est épouvantable.
J'espère que vous aussi bâillon sur vos cuisses de grenouilles.
Mais jamais changer courageux capitaine, vous êtes un "unique en son genre" et on vous aime!
And on topic - I think if it should be a Keydge and you are on a budget, it's always worth to look for the odd bargain on ebay or elsewhere, like this Dick in Edinburgh. K also have a sale on their website, and JS also has a Summer sale , if I'm not wrong. If you have the chance to try them before buying, do it. Like it was elaborated before, the J*Keydge ones are more true to their size, the newer ones are smaller.
Besides that, RL also are nice and not necessarily completely lined.
I've found a fair few slack/slack-ish jackets with Ivy relevance to varying degrees that would be broadly acceptable here. I do find the RL jackets with very subtle darts and buggy/shoulder only lining. (apart from very slight darts from RL (they appear on ebay constantly, there's one there now in beige I have on watch). I have also picked up some over recent years from Jaeger, Lands End and a couple of years ago I picked up a load of Aquascutum ones in various colours from their Outlet that I've never seen elsewhere and the shop has now closed. Lots of brandsrs now sell a 'jersey' material slack jacket that is not relevant here but as a style it is fairly widely adopted.
There is a looking nice 3/2 slack J.Crew jacket relisted on ebay right now I'm tempted by but having won two jackets off ebay this month it may be pushing my wife a bit far.
Last edited by An Unseen Scene (2014-06-18 02:00:52)
went with Keydge in the end. I've got a wedding, a 30th anniversary party of a company both me and the missus worked for (at the century club in London so gotta make an effort) coming up and a family do . Plus I've been lucky lately on other purchases. I agree that with a bit of patience I could have picked up something else and I'm keeping an eye out with the Ralph but I needed/ wanted to get something soon. I'm happy, but if I was to get another I'd probably wait for the sales. Also went into John Lewis and they had some interesting donegal tweed, 3 buttons which were unstructured and didn't appear darted etc. But they were 200 quid and it's summer...
Rock on Tommy!
..and if you're happy..I'm happy...you'll get loads of wear out of it I bet... Enjoy!
I saw that uniqlo one in a chazza I go with Tom's review of it. It was decent properly constructed with allowance. Not bad at all. Apart from the darted front.
I went back to TKMaxx and the RL jackets are still on sale. Oddly, the 42 which I tried on has no darts but a 36 and 38 on closer inspection was almost identical but with darts. As well as the tan they now have a 42 in a navy chino style cotton material. (with darts) So it is only the one jacket without darts, so maybe a sample? The 4 cuff buttons all 'work'. They had a few iffy stripped BB BD shirts (made in Malaysia) for £25.
Maybe the omission of darts on that one suit was just a manufacturing oversight. I know a lot of the clothes that end up in stores like that over here are there because they have slight defects or manufacturing errors.
There's always a shitload of RL stuff in TK Maxx.............. still doesn't fit me of course.... whereas Victoria's Secret stuff....
...doesn't either tbh....but THAT DOESN'T STOP ME TRYING....
I kinda like it when you spill forth.
That's just the way I'm sitting Hitman...
I wonder how many prospective members we alienate with out interaction alone?
Damn, there's innuendo in there too. Perhaps I should have said "back and forth" instead of "interaction alone". Wait... no. That's not any better.