Last edited by Bishop of Briggs (2011-01-23 06:25:39)

I am not seeing any major problems in the last three pics posted by the Bishop. No fit problems anyway, although the patterns/colours are strange and ill-chosen. The middle guy seems to be channelling pattern/colour choices from 5 years ago and the red buttonhole is the worst sort of bespoke nonsense. Nothing wrong with the third buy (I wouldn't wear it but whuteva).

The Belushi guy should be cast in any future sequels to the Blue Brothers - he's a dead ringer for the man himself!

"This week, while the Italian menswear shows have been running, I've made up my mind that this has everything to do with age - the age of male models, the age I'm at - and the fact that credibility is stretched to snapping point when designers ask us to believe that young men would dress that way, all pomaded and lipsticked. The poor things cannot help looking daft in older men's suits, but even when it goes faux-schoolboy - in a supposedly generationally appropriate way - it's best described, as I can hear my 20-year-old son softly hissing, as "Sheesh!"

The Italians should just leave it to their granddaddies. From the photographic evidence coming out of Florence and Milan this week, an Italian man only approaches his full power and confidence in dressing in his fifties. At 60-plus, he may qualify as a sartorial genius whose idiosyncratic taste and ineffable confidence in mixing old and new clothes, and mismatching patterns and colours, completely outclasses younger men's gaucher attempts at "fashion". In Italy, until you can grow a full face of white whiskers, put on a checked suit, paisley waistcoat, striped shirt, spotted tie, pink pocket handkerchief, herringbone overcoat, top it with an old fedora and aviators, and come out looking as if it had just somehow "happened", you've not qualified for the full respect of seniority."

- Sarah Mower, The sartorial geniuses - aged 60-plus, The Daily Telegraph, 19 January 2011 (by way of Admiral Cod)

Last edited by Big Tony (2011-01-24 15:41:34)

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Big Tony drew my attention to this idiot on another thread. He is a rich mine of mistakes. I particularly like the fact that he describes the trousers on this suit as 'well-fitting'. Is this Ivy jail dressing?

He looks like he's put on a bit of weight since this fitted him properly but the elbow patches are the thing that sets the coat apart. Never was a detail less necessary and more flashy than a suede patch on a tweed jacket.

Last edited by Grossgrain Silk (2011-01-31 14:44:17)