Beware, cloth does dry out.

I'm sorry, why should I care what Nick Foulkes thinks? Is he in and out of the clothing trade?

Personally, to the extent that I prefer a vintage look, I would prefer newer fabrics woven in older designs. A lot of the leftover stuff is left over for a reason; mostly bad. I understand that there is a vogue for authentic vintage cloths (I actually just had a vintage H. Lesser's checked cloth in mohair/wool blend made into a suit which might be 40 years old!) and heavier weights but the left over stuff still needs to be examined on a case by case basis.

It is still cold where I live.
I do miss that feeling of heaviness in a suit in this season, as well as the look of the thick wrinkles that formed at the knees and elbows. And you could wear them forever without them looking like a frazzled mess.
I'm not saying one is better than the other, but it reminds me of house construction where newer and lighter materials have "all the advantages" of the older materials without some of the "disadvantages". Except that mass and solidity do have a certain kind of appeal.

Misinformation is probably the biggest gift provided by the Internet. Like Formby's article about clothes serving as a symbol of self invention, most people get annoyed with people who are better or more knowledgeable then they are and buy into the "We are all the same" fallacy. With regard to clothes, the result is the mass trammeling of everything refined with the byline, rednecks opinions are just as good as anyone else's.

Less extreme but perhaps more disgusting it seems that the lower middle class has moved into tailored clothing bringing with them all their attentive anxxxieties. For instance, the heavy weight obsession for suit cloths has willed the return of the laughable 14+ ounce suit cloth. Apparently, a large number of nobodies can combine to reassure each other that they are all both unique and elite. The concept is that suits should be investments in longevity and that discomfort is an acceptable trade off for clothes that last forever. The truth is, once one of these people gets it made up it will become useless based on their own poor choice of details.

Another online fantasy is that the cloths from the merchants and custom made jackets are more delicate than RTW garments. It's all about anxiety but even worse, mass anxiety uniting and asserting its supremacy. It's like the world has been inherited by a world of frightened mice. The cashmere and super 150 and above fabrics I have from Harrisons wear like some sort of high tensile steel. Sometimes i wish they WOULD wear out! The H Lesser cloth suits I have are not uncomfortable, but rather get softer and more buttery with age.

I suppose it makes you unpopular when you discuss class in our classless world and condemn that vast majority of clothes aficionados to an eternity of poor taste choices but it seems to be the case.

nick foulkes has fugly taste in cloth .. look at these ...

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I think the reason the igent wants a heavy cloth is to do with longevity .. most are not uber wealthy and have to justify a purchase by years wear from a piece of clothing .. thats why they like good year welted cordovan shoes/ boots, tweed jackets and so on. if you buy a 18oz tweed ... it will probably outlive you so at £2500 (2500/80 years) it will come to ~30 quid a year! downside is you look ridonkulous to everyone apart from iGents .. or people who dress like that for a reason errrm perhaps gamekeepers in the hebrides .. plonkers.

Ive seen a new collection of cloths from Harrisons called their 'Anniversary Tweeds' ..anyone seen these or thinking about having something made from them? Apparantly a recreation of old harrisons cloths .. tapping into this buzz about vintage cloths perhaps?

I quite like Foulkes, although his outfits are ridiculous.  I guess all the hackwork he turns out (history of Dunhill, history of Rubinacci, etc.) pays some bills while he gets on with the proper history books he also writes and keeps him in cigars so on.