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#1 2012-12-13 16:53:10
- sartorialman
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Rubinnaci?!?
Why do the I gents love so damn much? Can Carpu tell me hy it is popular? Is it that good?
Sicilian tailors cost about 600-1000 Euros and made in 4 days, Why not that?
#2 2012-12-14 04:15:15
- Oldfruit1
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Re: Rubinnaci?!?
rubinacci are proponents of neopolitan cut.. flavour of the month for igent types.
its fiendishly expensive, some high end tailoring exhibits features of a giffen good, the higher the price, the higher the demand.
rubinaaci does flashy stuff which some like such as line a jacket with one of their bright silk scarves. .. igents like showy.
they are experts in marketing, igent management such as foulkes rave about them.
they are based in mayfair, london (as well as having premises in italy) which makes it accessible for the london based igent community
#3 2012-12-14 04:22:45
- Sal
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Re: Rubinnaci?!?
And now also accessible to the Kazakistan (sic) igent community:
http://www.marianorubinacci.net/club/?p=1317
wtf?
#4 2012-12-14 08:28:53
- Oldfruit1
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Re: Rubinnaci?!?
makes perfect sense .. now that london casino banking business has imploded .. rubinacci is looking for new sources of men with a lot of cash & very little taste .. where better to go than oil rich and corrupt kazakstan .. although im not exactly sure how light unlined italian suits & those dainty 'marphy' belgian loafers will work in a freezing siberian tundra .. oh well maybe could push some of those enormous brightly patterned silk scarves to keep those kazakstani government officials warm hehe
got to take your hat off to the business savvy of rubinacci senior & junior .. they can smell money from hundreds and hundreds of miles away!
Last edited by Oldfruit1 (2012-12-14 08:29:50)
#5 2012-12-14 09:32:29
- Kingston1an
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Re: Rubinnaci?!?
"Florid, smug, middle-aged golf club bore in this country I'd say. Propping up the 19th hole in deepest Surrey bemoaning the perils of immigration."
#6 2012-12-14 11:18:35
- Ali Kebab
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Re: Rubinnaci?!?
The higher the price the higher demand thing is rubbish.
After all the real igent favorite Anderson and Sheppard is closer to the lower end of SR price range.
#7 2012-12-14 15:18:12
- Popeye Doyle
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Re: Rubinnaci?!?
Last edited by Popeye Doyle (2012-12-14 15:18:59)
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#9 2012-12-15 09:28:37
- Film Noir Buff
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Re: Rubinnaci?!?
Rubinacci provides a service and they appeal to a certain sort of person. What's wrong with that? The vast majority of men will always either be poorly dressed, have tawdry or arrested tastes and live in fear of making a mistake. Rubinacci provides one stop shopping or the social climber of yesteryear.
#10 2012-12-15 10:44:51
- formby
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Re: Rubinnaci?!?
"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
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#11 2012-12-15 12:18:37
- Sal
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Re: Rubinnaci?!?
I-gents favour, above all things, soft tailoring. So they love A&S, Rubinacci and Mahon with blind devotion. I-gent all-time mvp Duke of Windsor of course favoured soft tailoring. They see it as an exclusive subset of bespoke which marks out the purchaser as truly in-the-know. Thus you never see i-gents talking about firms such as Huntsman and Poole - to go to such firms would show a lack of originality and panache. Why follow the dull herd when you can be a pioneer of soft tailoring? But the sad reality is that they are Shooey's sheople to a man when it comes to their devotion to soft tailoring.
The Kazakhstan venture can only go down badly with the i-gents. It's not just about the clothes for the Rubinacci fanboy, it's about fin-de-siecle grandeur, the Naples yacht club, espresso and grappa, maybe even - who knows - defending a countess against backstreet scugnizzi with one's trusty Rubinacci sword cane. None of this fits at all with a firm that flogs its wares to the Central Asian oil mafia. But Rubinacci won't care, they know where to make the real cash.
#13 2012-12-15 14:51:34
- formby
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Re: Rubinnaci?!?
"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
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#16 2012-12-16 18:26:56
- xenon1
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Re: Rubinnaci?!?
Why is it always those with the poorest dopey physic that choose soft tailoring?
#17 2012-12-16 19:14:33
- Ali Kebab
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Re: Rubinnaci?!?
Not all of them. Remember the magnificent physique of iammatt. Almost superhuman.
#20 2012-12-18 09:04:01
- Oldfruit1
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Re: Rubinnaci?!?
^ neopolitan tailoring isnt supposed to be that soft .. the above is almost like an english sillouette .. perhaps these days rubinacci is giving the customers what they want & therefore has changed his output to reflect current tastes (& make the tills ring .. playing a nice tune .. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlOO-EkdTCM )..
that reminds me .. anyone seen berlusconi's new squeeze? if wearing rubinacci could help me pull women like this i would make the ultimate sacrifice & start patronising the 1 iGent tailor of choice!
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=Francesca+Pascale&hl=en&sa=X&tbo=d&qscrl=1&rlz=1T4ADRA_enGB375GB379&biw=1429&bih=653&tbm=isch&tbnid=qrdJChVbGUDupM:&imgrefurl=http://in2eastafrica.net/silvio-berlusconi-76-announces-engagement-girlfriend-francesca-pascale-27/&docid=lKe4wzhQ50zyeM&itg=1&imgurl=http://in2eastafrica.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Francesca-Pascale.jpg&w=620&h=465&ei=ZJPQUPCpGIrG0QX144CQDQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=321&vpy=163&dur=75&hovh=194&hovw=259&tx=154&ty=149&sig=103259904137241897176&page=1&tbnh=144&tbnw=163&start=0&ndsp=22&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:0,i:111
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#21 2012-12-18 10:26:45
- formby
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Re: Rubinnaci?!?
Soft tailoring or concepts of soft tailoring have been dominant on the fora for several years now. I think soft tailoring is mainly an American fancy, Ivy, Brooks A&S and the like. Its a concept that resonates with them and since the fora are probably made up of more Americans than any other nationality It doesn't surprise me that it is dominant nor does it bother me.
I'm not a fan of soft tailoring, as it all to often looks sloppy to my eye. I think it's best left to cloths like flannel and linen that can benefit from that look.
I can't comment on the quality of the R. make and most of the stuff they have made that I've seen, albeit in photographs seems to fit OK. Their customers seem in the main to be a happy bunch if maybe a bit to fanboy at times but personally I just don't like the style, which is exactly how it should be.
"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
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#23 2012-12-19 05:49:56
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Re: Rubinnaci?!?
Contrary to lies of FNB and Woofboxer, I (and most of the other "Buff Bastards") have been banned from posting on this forum. There are only a few posters left so don't waste your time on here. This forum is dead and nobody cares.
