As discussed in the 'If Sacks are your Bag' thread, this a thread to keep any information on the changing J. Press cut over time all in one place.
Photos with comments are especially welcome.
Non Press items are very welcome too to provide contrast.
Please could you include the date of purchase so we can work out some sort of rough timeline.
Even just descriptions of what you have and what year they came from would also be really useful.
I'm especially interested in sportscoats, blazers and suit jackets.

Interesting details would be:
The shoulder line - How much padding they contain.
The shape of the coat - How much waist suppression there is. How closely it is cut to the body (A very relative judgement).
The button stance and lapel roll - Three to two, 3 Btn, 2 Btn, how high or low the lapel roll is.
How high the arm holes are.
The nature of the vents.

And any other onteresting details of pockets, welted seams, labels etc.

The idea is to then try to find out who the maker was for which items at what time just to increase our knowledge of the history of Press.

A final idea just for for fun might be trying to decide which cut was 'best' - Again a very relative term. Was the golden age of Press Tweeds Autumn 1992 (or whenever) for example?

It could be fun.

Miles.

Last edited by Miles Away (2006-09-19 00:45:32)