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by Noble Savage
Mon Oct 21, 2024 2:04 pm
Forum: The Structure of Style
Topic: Understanding French Ties
Replies: 12
Views: 5186

Re: Understanding French Ties

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1536/cpsprodpb/4ab9/live/fbb07420-8d9a-11ef-8341-abb419129fdb.jpg.webp (from left) UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, US President Joe Biden, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron in Berlin The UK Prime Minister chooses a tie which, while dark...
by Noble Savage
Sat Jul 27, 2024 12:59 pm
Forum: The Bespoke Forum
Topic: Michael Browne
Replies: 14
Views: 10554

Re: Michael Browne

Clean. Well done.
by Noble Savage
Thu Jun 27, 2024 4:29 pm
Forum: The Bespoke Forum
Topic: Blazer style choices
Replies: 19
Views: 10592

Re: Blazer style choices

Both flat and domed buttons are ordinarily shanked, rather than with holes. The key with shanked is to sink them deep into the fabric so they don't have a discernible bounce. You can tell in the photo above, because looking at the non-functional buttons on the front, their domed lips are flat agains...
by Noble Savage
Fri May 31, 2024 6:46 pm
Forum: The Bespoke Forum
Topic: Blazer style choices
Replies: 19
Views: 10592

Re: Blazer style choices

Simon wrote:
Sun Apr 28, 2024 6:24 am
My go-to blazer is in the old 15oz Minnis Fresco. Flapped hacking pockets, and gold buttons but made up with a one-button front and one-button cuff which limits the ‘trophy cabinet’ effect.
Gold buttons, "the trophy cabinet effect", last summer.

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by Noble Savage
Mon Feb 05, 2024 10:06 am
Forum: Your Questions and Answers
Topic: Winter footwear in a formal context
Replies: 11
Views: 5945

Re: Winter footwear in a formal context

The semiotics of the issue are highly context dependent anyway. In a former life I found myself taking a year-long chemistry course at night at Harvard. The professor was a senior faculty member, an old-time Cambridge man and former head of a Harvard research lab, who in the winter taught in a thre...
by Noble Savage
Mon Feb 05, 2024 10:04 am
Forum: Your Questions and Answers
Topic: Winter footwear in a formal context
Replies: 11
Views: 5945

Re: Winter footwear in a formal context

Very common in New England. Nothing trying too hard about it.
by Noble Savage
Sat Oct 28, 2023 2:08 am
Forum: The Bespoke Forum
Topic: Overcoat lining
Replies: 7
Views: 3706

Re: Overcoat lining

Thanks, perhaps I should request a pure silk or regular lining then. Which do you think is better? Pure silk, while traditional, and still used for formal clothing, is simply not as durable as regular lining. Silk can be used, and is beautiful, on things like white tie tailcoats, but these are not ...
by Noble Savage
Wed Oct 25, 2023 6:35 am
Forum: The Bespoke Forum
Topic: New English Bespoke Shirtmaker: Wil Whiting
Replies: 154
Views: 24229

Re: New English Bespoke Shirtmaker: Wil Whiting

If its good enough for you guys, its good enough for Charles, so I will confirm that his shirts, collars and ties are his weakest point. But who would expect Charles to choose a Windsor collar? He clearly has the intention to distance himself from his prodigious style predecessor and create his own...
by Noble Savage
Tue Oct 17, 2023 11:55 am
Forum: The Bespoke Forum
Topic: Closing of Chester Jefferies
Replies: 4
Views: 3454

Re: Closing of Chester Jefferies

Nem500 wrote:
Sun Oct 15, 2023 8:04 pm
I just saw this post. Very sad indeed. I have two pairs of their gloves early last year I sent them my oldest pair for relining.
A real shame, they made super gloves at reasonable prices.
Perhaps they should have raised their prices.
by Noble Savage
Tue Oct 17, 2023 11:53 am
Forum: The Bespoke Forum
Topic: Closing of Chester Jefferies
Replies: 4
Views: 3454

Re: Closing of Chester Jefferies

Website says: Unfortunately, we are now only offering our gloves to trade and wholesale customers.
by Noble Savage
Sun Oct 08, 2023 1:30 pm
Forum: The Bespoke Forum
Topic: Black tie musings
Replies: 2
Views: 2570

Re: Black tie musings

There's something excessively fussy about the smaller bow ties. While the larger ones speak to a more relaxed attitude, befitting of a convivial black tie mood. Reminds me of this comment: Charles has a very fine, birdlike, turkey head. He can afford to wear a tiny collar and points. I suspect the c...
by Noble Savage
Thu Sep 28, 2023 1:38 am
Forum: The Structure of Style
Topic: White tabs under waistcoat
Replies: 6
Views: 3291

Re: White tabs under waistcoat

Now that I've looked at it several times, it appears to me to be tabs from the waistcoat...

I another time, it might have inspired the Order of the Loose Waistcoat Tab.
by Noble Savage
Tue Sep 26, 2023 5:55 am
Forum: The Structure of Style
Topic: White tabs under waistcoat
Replies: 6
Views: 3291

Re: White tabs under waistcoat

Concordia wrote:
Mon Sep 25, 2023 10:22 am
Appear to be braces not tucked in.
Odd
by Noble Savage
Sun Sep 24, 2023 11:44 pm
Forum: The Structure of Style
Topic: White tabs under waistcoat
Replies: 6
Views: 3291

White tabs under waistcoat

Trying to understand what these white tabs are supposed to be:

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Leonard Lauder, Carolyn Murphy at the Met Gala