Wow!
I guess that each country have its own problems.
For UK are these gargantuan windowpanes in technicolor,(and some features like exaggerated hourglass silhouette,slanted pockets and ticket pockets,cuffs on sleves).
In Italy we have skinny/breadstick  trousers on broad double breasted coats,with razorz point of lapels ready to go in orbit, and puff shoulders.
And of course,colored bracelets..lots and lots of damned bracelets!
you know what?
The British flamboyant look is more enjoyable!
Is like the mad hatter that meet a crazy country gentleman.
Italians flamboyants are vulgars and sad.
The motivation is to be sexy,hook the women...not even this...BE LOOKED from the women.
Sometimes i think that the italian  tailors should give to their more fashionables and garish customers a chemical castration like free gift.

Unless the likes of Dashing Tweeds have significantly changed the game plan (?) - technicolor and overtly large windowpanes, etc - are not really much in evidence on the UK street or in business. The mainstream of suit, tie and jacket wearing men (already a distinct minority in many business sectors) remains conservative in dress and such frivolous details can be interpreted as the mark of an un-disciplined dandy, unless the character of the man is sufficiently at ease with a look that can be easily interpreted as effete and affected. Another problem is dressing like the following:
http://www.h-huntsman.com/bespoke/HMC68144-1
Would outside of certain situations, be injurious to ones health. You couldn't walk into a pub in most towns and city centres on a Saturday night near closing time and expect not to be threatened. So, such a suit is also a statement of being sufficiently removed from the vulgarity of the herd.

The flamboyant look is there, but is far from mainstream and not much in evidence in oil and gas, or engineering which I have experience of. Creative businesses may be different, or banking(?), but I couldn't comment. I think Formby will confirm that the likes of Huntsman bespoke remains the preserve of a gentrified and London based elite.

I see a lot more comical flamboyancy in Italy, but I also see a lot better dressing in the English style with Italians than the Brits. And a lot more knowledge and access to affordable tailoring. A mid-level manager in Italy is likely to dress extremely well and have a high level of knowledge of the Northampton shoe makers, whereas the English counterpart at the mid-career level is, in my experience, satisfied with a suit from Marks & Spencers and will not be walking around in C&J's or shoes equal or higher standard.

Last edited by formby (2012-11-05 16:50:39)