Love the deep rich color of that tweed, Oh Captain my Captain.  So much texture.  So textural.  Textural healing.  Textural stimulation.  Textural revolution.

Cheers Ringmeister, Leer, Worried "The Texture" Man & AC...indeed...this is one of my fave jackets in recent years..you really can't go wrong with an old wool BB in my book...

And thanks for the commiserations AC, ha ha..tho tbh, I really don't much care for the Premier League or the way we went about it...so looking forward to a clearout and Saturday kick offs at 3pm...and another 15 years or so before we return!!

Very nice chaps.  The BB roll in full effect there.

Cheers Liam the Sebago’s may not be for the purists but I love em.
They are the most versatile shoe I own, as you say good in the wet
Due to the rubber sole but also light so I use them like many would Sperry topsiders.
With Shorts (when its hot), chino’s etc.

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I see the connection between unstructured Continental or Italian tailoring and Ivy tailoring.  I said that.  I'm just not clued up on all these hybrid terms such as 'Continental Ivy'. The seem a bit redundant to me. Anyway that jacket is darted and the natural shoulder is as part of Continental/Italian tailoring as it is Ivy so to me it's Continental style.  And it looks great.

The only thing I don't get is the need to label it Ivy at all? It is what it is. 

...and I also don't get how you could dig that triangle of white.

The shoes / trouser combo, length of the pants (obviously to hide the white sox), plus the waist suppression on the jacket, is giving me a continental, more so than Ivy vibe, in spite of the natural shoulder and the 3rd button.  GW himself said "continental ivy for today's modernist."  I think that sums it up just fine.  Is GW's jacket darted?  I don't see darts.  It does look to have quite a bit of waist suppression though.  I do feel something's amiss about the button stance or fit.  A higher rise / lower button stance would clear up the bunchy white triangle, but isn't that what that last button's for?

I could donate my "doodoo dessies".

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