Big Tony wrote:

That's advice you've never followed yourself.

Mea culpa. I don't think I ever went gunning for him though and I stayed out of the really poisonous threads.

Big Tony wrote:

People have chosen to forget he and Sammy showed up at the same time (hmmm) and were immediately hostile trolls. Grossgrain never contributed much other than to search for imaginary anti-semites and defend the legal profession. I don't miss him.

Sammy, by contrast, has become a solid member of this site with a friendly attitude.

I cannot see Grossgrain being a Northern soul man so I don't think they are the same poster. Grossgrain was fine -you just have to factor in his hobby horses. I think it was the feud as well that caused him to go.

Kingstonian wrote:

Big Tony wrote:

That's advice you've never followed yourself.

Mea culpa. I don't think I ever went gunning for him though and I stayed out of the really poisonous threads.

I meant it as an honest comment, and I'm glad to see you took it that way.

Kingstonian wrote:

Big Tony wrote:

People have chosen to forget he and Sammy showed up at the same time (hmmm) and were immediately hostile trolls. Grossgrain never contributed much other than to search for imaginary anti-semites and defend the legal profession. I don't miss him.

Sammy, by contrast, has become a solid member of this site with a friendly attitude.

I cannot see Grossgrain being a Northern soul man so I don't think they are the same poster. Grossgrain was fine -you just have to factor in his hobby horses. I think it was the feud as well that caused him to go.

I missed the feud, I guess.

Big Tony wrote:

Luca Rubinacci looking quite normal, which shows that he can do it when he wants:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-K3boY_MYlok/T … inacci.jpg
(link via Will B.)

I do wonder whether it would improve the business if all the publicity pictures Rubinacci produce looked like that, demonstrating they could make normal suits, or whether they would lose business since most customers like the “edginess” of being fitted by someone dressed like a clown...

weerw wrote:

Welcome to this forum

You've been caught pal! Say goodbye.

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Sart0rialInquisition wrote:

i know most of the guys here don't like him, but that suit is pretty much A1 spot-on: (guy in the middle, not the teenage boys playing miami vice meets granpa grouch on the left and right)

http://www.livincool.com/wp-content/upl … 11-166.jpg

lf the 20 year old funny bunny paid for his own suit, then fair enough. Too young for fur on his face also...makes him look like a grubby old goon. 20 going on 40. He don't live in the real world. Will he ever get a girlfriend, or will they avoid him forever?

REal old tailoring. Collar looks wide like so many good suit names online. l wonder if it comes off his neck in various not-too-crazy positions, l reckon it's possible. Sleeves look well done.

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Big Tony wrote:

Sart0rialInquisition wrote:

i know most of the guys here don't like him, but that suit is pretty much A1 spot-on: (guy in the middle, not the teenage boys playing miami vice meets granpa grouch on the left and right)

http://www.livincool.com/wp-content/upl … 11-166.jpg

As far as it goes, I think the tall guy has the best fitting jacket on.

You are probably correct. Notice how his suit collar sits around his shirt collar much better. l am no expert in this, but the guy in the middle look like his tailor has used a basic block technique to cut the suit (not a customized suit cut pattern) and has relied on `fitting' to try to get the block pattern to fit the client, but as usual it hasn't quite worked and we get the effect where the suit is not sitting nice and high on his neck, it looks like it wants to fall off his neck (wide cut collar). My tailor has shown me numerous examples of this type of work by so called worldclass names before and shows me how they all fail to stay on the neck even in not so stretched positions. lt shows very few tailors are capable of making a great suit because they have old school cutting skills using a block and don't know how to customize properly.

My tailor and l have done experiments on this subject so l know it's not bullshit, l have seen the proof. Very few tailors know how to cut a suit properly.

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fritzl wrote:

Sart0rialInquisition wrote:

i know most of the guys here don't like him, but that suit is pretty much A1 spot-on: (guy in the middle, not the teenage boys playing miami vice meets granpa grouch on the left and right)

http://www.livincool.com/wp-content/upl … 11-166.jpg

what's not to like him?

I do like him, the Cravate. Er hod an gewissen Schmäh and I usually like his clothes. I think he gets unfairly criticized on this forum, as he seems to have a very unassuming style and doesn't take himself to seriously. Im Gegensatz zum Küblböck, der in den Foren grundsätzlich wie ein besserwisserischer, altkluger Oarsch auftritt. But then, you know him personally, maybe he's just not very good with written words and comes off worse than he is.

And I guess we agree when I say, the less said about the fellow on the left, who managed to get conned by the Bespoke Consultant, the better

Sart0rialInquisition wrote:

I do like him, the Cravate. Er hod an gewissen Schmäh and I usually like his clothes. I think he gets unfairly criticized on this forum, as he seems to have a very unassuming style and doesn't take himself to seriously. Im Gegensatz zum Küblböck, der in den Foren grundsätzlich wie ein besserwisserischer, altkluger Oarsch auftritt. But then, you know him personally, maybe he's just not very good with written words and comes off worse than he is.

And I guess we agree when I say, the less said about the fellow on the left, who managed to get conned by the Bespoke Consultant, the better

you make me neugierig. i like guys of strong and gerechte words. pn?

Bespoke coat made by Warsaw tailors Mazurczak & Trzaska:







Look surprisingly nice, I think - what say you?

Whilst nosing about on old Sators forum I came across this:







This has been cut by the tailor Davide Taub at Maurice Sedwell. He has also worked under Edward Sexton.

Compare with this Nutter cut by Sexton (one on the right)



I shall be keeping an eye on this bloke...

K. A. Adams wrote:

There's enough rope there to hang one's self

Which is what I would do if I was forced to go out in public wearing a coat with a sleeve head like that

More rope than Sciamat! Davide Taub has an interesting blog - http://davidetaub.blogspot.com/ It has more photographs of that linen suit.

The quality of the cutting and tailoring is excellent. It appears that there is no Sedwell house style and the customer gets what he or she wants.

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