Hello All! I hope I may add to the discussion, There was an indepth discussion on the London Lounge about this. The link to the thread is below. Reading the posts afresh it appears that NJS's theory is correct, although a Savile Row firm might have made the suits for the promotional stills.

http://www.thelondonlounge.net/gl/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6198

Last edited by noss (2010-07-23 10:20:20)

Last edited by formby (2010-07-24 07:01:32)

Last edited by NJS (2010-07-24 13:26:24)

Time to come out of the hutch!

I am no great fan of AA and Esq plates. They are not really sources of what people were wearing as much as what the designers at al were trying to get them to wear. Time magazine, the Spy cartoons in Vanity Fair; (literally) film annuals; pictorial history books; photo libraries; newspapers and magazines with real photos of real people, are richer sources of historical reference and let's face it, the basic suit is very much the same now as it was 100 years ago, so some historical reference is there already: http://thenakedapegetsdressed.blogspot.com/2010/07/avoiding-all-new-look.html

As for experimentation: manufacturing cloths is an expensive way to do it, if failures result but, to paraphrase JFK, if you don't try, you won't fail and the greatest sin is not to aim too high and miss but to aim too low and hit the mark. There have been some great Cloth Club cloths (the Donegal herringbone and the camel hair (still uncertain in whether it will be ordered), for two and whilst I would not have a suit made out of the grey/blue triple w/p above, I expect that Evelyn Waugh wannabees might, and brighten everyone's day.