It must be some extraordinarily bizarre cloth that would require a dedicated set of trousers and shirts.....?

Any chance that this is mere post-purchase buyers anxiety?

I would have thought a 'dirty grey browny' colour would be a versatile enough colour for a sports jacket. Are you able to upload a picture of this offensive fabric......?

it may be a bit of post purchase buyers anxiety .. unfortunately im staying in a hotel at the moment and dont have the facilities to take any pictures //

its not just the colour ... its so wishy washy as to make it look completely overwhelmed by other pieces of clothing ... i would need to get very light trousers and shirts to make it look half decent. im trying to work out what exactly i was thinking at the time of purchase .. i didnt even go in to buy such a thing ..while leafing through a cloth book i had a stroke of 'inspiration'  .. make that total idiocy ... and plumbed for this! foolishly there were other jacketing materials i saw at the time which i really wanted to have made but put aside for this! im kicking myself now .. i think stuff carefully through but i sometimes get the urge to just act on instinct which sometimes leads to regretful purchases ...

the problem with bespoke is there is no returns policy as such ... which is why i think there is a pork rail in most tailors with various things not picked up ... customers like me maybe go off what they comissioned & dont return to pay their account and pick the offending item up!

problem is that the tailors time at this stage is probably more than 50% as most of the work is done now... what to do? just go through with the whole thing ... then a) chuck in the bin b) give to a charity shop c) palm off to an unwitting relative d) wear whilst doing the gardening ... 'accidentally' tear on a bush and be forced joyously to throw away so as not to be reminded of ones foolishness d) sell on SF buy and sell page to an american cheapskate who wants jenuine british bespoke?

another idea which just struck me is can a jacket be re-dyed once it is made? you see how desperate i am at this stage .. i am thinking of anyway not to have to wear this thing. how could something so right go so f8cking wrong?

Last edited by Oldfruit1 (2013-05-26 08:16:08)

If you dump the commission, your tailor will be entitled to bill you for the work done and the cloth. If you really hate the cloth, there's no point in wasting any more money or your tailor's time.

Edit to add that I never commission bespoke tweed jackets to avoid making a mistake like yours. Even RTW jackets can look great on the rail but terrible when I try them on.

Cording's new range is a bit disappointing and the block has changed. Walker Slater on the Fulham Road have a very good selection of tweed (Lovat Mill) jackets. Bladen has a wide range too in 3 different styles.

Last edited by Bishop of Briggs (2013-05-26 10:47:19)

Welcome back Captain!

It's never happened to me in 15 years of doing this, which I suppose is quite surprising as I think about it. I would just be honest with him though and soften the blow by paying for the time and cloth and ordering something else.

What to wear with "bizarre dirty grey browny colour"? I would probably brown cords, white or cream oxford shirt and a knitted tie.

Drake's has a few print ties with brown and dark colours that could also be suitable or give you ideas.

Last edited by Oldfruit1 (2013-05-27 09:16:40)

^ Is that a London Lounge cloth? It looks like one of Alden's from a couple of years ago.

It's not half as bad as I thought it would be. In fact, I like it - just add a sky blue shirt, brown knitted or grenadine tie, navy trousers and brown brogues/wingtips.

Last edited by Bishop of Briggs (2013-05-27 09:35:46)

yep its from the moonbeam bunch, i was going to go for the safe navy blue with red check, something in the back of my head said that the dark blue was too much like typical blue suiting, as well as the fact that darker blue is more formal and i wanted something for a relaxed sportjacket ... i also figured a pastel was more sophisticated in a sports jacket (no idea where i got this idea from, but it occurred to me at the time ... something to do with it being more uncommon and perhaps a more suble palette) ...

do you think a ice blue shirt would work or would it wash the blueness from the cloth, dark trousers make it look more milky ... so i might be forced to walk around in cream shirts .. cream trousers ... basically like a loro piana model ...

Well, that guy sure seems happy with his jacket.

Don't cry over milk you haven't even spilled yet, oldfruit1. 

Look at all the good laughs over on the Inane Post threads.  Most of them are funny not because of the clothes, but because of the insecure nature of the people wearing the clothes.  Seems to me that a confident guy could wear a white Colonel Sanders suit and still look better than a guy who is constantly fretting about this 'rule' and that 'rule' and whether his 60% off AE's are shined properly.

It'll be fine.