It just seems absolutely clear to me that the Italian male cares about clothes , and has better taste (ie.My taste!),  than any other nationality I've come across. Look at the care old men take in their appearance - proper haircuts, Barracuta Harringtons, great cords, chukka boots. They wear, its seems almost instictively, a hybrid Anglo-American look which becomes so quintessentially Italian when they combine it. You don't even have to look back and analyse it historically because it is clear from what you see you see today in Italy that the effects of the Ivy/U.S. thing still permeates their sartorial palate. John Simons has mentioned to me more than once that one of the key influences for him, and this was I think before he'd got hold of an American Ivy League jacket, was a shop called Giorgio on Piccadilly Arcade in the 1950s. Their tailoring was soft and unstructured and very un-British. The Italians remain in the true vanguard of exciting traditional tailoring. What I really love is how this is manifested across the country, across classes and is not solely the preserve of some niche social group or youth cult.

GG

I read about that, but I thought that Cecil Gee brought a tailor back as his own employee....

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Claudio is selling a 3/2 bumfreezer recently:

http://www.dnagroove.it/en/amarone005-man-9-2633-clothes.html

Quando si usa la parola 'bumfreezer' qui cosa significa esattamente perche`secondo quello che posso vedere qui la giacca mi sembra piu` o meno una buona versiona italiana del stile 'ivy league'? In qualche modo e` diverso? Grazie.

GG

the 3/2 undarted bumfreezer is a great cut that's highly underrated, esp since it can pair well with odd trews adn jeans as well as part of a suit

making myself some new fall/winter jackets for Thick as Thieves photos in that style, try to get more guys into it.  single piece back, short side vents, patch pockets, undarted, no shoulder pad, 3/2 lapel roll, swelled seams on lapel & pockets etc.

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