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  1. Matt_the_chap

    Vintage Suitings: Discussions of, and sourcing modern equivalents, etc.

    Ted Williams, down on London Road, GBR. They're fantastic, completely fantastic and very skilled. Their website is http://www.tedthetailor.co.uk/ . If you're ever down that way it's worth going to take a look. About the only thing they won't do is specialist riding stuff, but I'm damned if I can...
  2. Matt_the_chap

    Shoe shine:Do your own or take out??

    It smooths the polish, the hot spoon method anyway, allowing boots to be bulled up to the mirror polish expected. It used to be even more necessary on old military boots, at least the British ones, because the leather is very nubby and running the hot spoon over the polished leather smoothed...
  3. Matt_the_chap

    Vintage Suitings: Discussions of, and sourcing modern equivalents, etc.

    My tailor in Sheffield has recently been offered quite a few bolts of vintage cloth, going back to the late '40s as far as we can tell. Simply from the feel of the fabric compared to that in the swatch books, it's possible to tell that the quality of modern cloth, even the low-end stuff, is...
  4. Matt_the_chap

    Some tips to help those who are clueless about men's fashion

    I love pleats - I quite enjoy being able to put things like lighters or packets of cigarettes in my pockets and still be able to sit down comfortably. Hell, with pleats and deep pockets I've occasionally misplaced a lighter when I've needed it most because I've forgotten it's been there. I just...
  5. Matt_the_chap

    WWI Uniforms?

    Soldier of Fortune (www.1944airborne.com) do a fairly good set of WW1 British which is up to their usual high standard. I wear mostly SoF repro when I have to wear repro, except their shirts that tend to be the wrong pattern. What Price Glory have moved into the WW1 market too.
  7. Matt_the_chap

    1930's Music

    I would also like to recommend Al Bowlly's singing, mostly with some of the British dance bands. In addition, there's various comic songs, including George Formby and those performed by Leslie Sarony, later a part of 'The Two Leslies'. Lew Stone's orchestra, Bix Beiderbecke and Oscar Rabin's...
  8. Matt_the_chap

    Trouser leg circumference

    Preferably I like the toe-cap of my shoe to be almost entirely swallowed by the trouser. Maybe half an inch of toe and sole poking out at most. I don't know why, it just appeals to me. It's probably one of those things that falls down to the period and personal preference like many aspects of...
  9. Matt_the_chap

    Trouser leg circumference

    Personally I like to go for between a 23" and a 26" circumference, wearing a UK size eight shoe. I quite like the extreme nature of it and the bagginess is very comfortable when paired with a high-waist.
  10. Matt_the_chap

    Just won this suit on Ebay

    Homespun tweed was, well, homespun, traditionally, in the various islands around Scotland that make the best tweed, hence the name, if people were unaware of the background. I suppose it might've carried the same thing that' Made in England' or 'Made in the US' do for us today - a harking back...
  11. Matt_the_chap

    Show us your suits

    The fabric is far too different (being black) from the demob standard of 'Blue' or 'Brown' for it to be such. It's also made very very well, as opposed to the cheap and shabby construction of the demob suits I've seen. It's also not seen very much wear at all, with an invisible weave to a tiny...
  13. Matt_the_chap

    Show us your suits

    It's definitely a 1930s suit, but all those firms seem to have started around the same time. Amusingly, with inflation, I've paid about the same for this suit now as I would've done back then had I bought it in a Jackson's.
  14. Matt_the_chap

    Show us your suits

    It seems 'Jackson the Tailor' might've been quite famous in Britain: http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/suits-you-sir-jackson-returns-to-high-street-1.969038 That is, if it's the same 'Jackson the Tailor'. "Sir Montague Burton (1885-1952), founder of the tailoring empire that bears his name, was...
  15. Matt_the_chap

    Show us your suits

    No, it's an English Jackson, from somewhere in the South of England (AFAIK). The writing of 'Jackson' is similar between the labels, but nothing else. It simply reads 'Jackson the Tailor' on a cream label. The fabric also is rather heavy for a suit made in the Far East, even by the standards of...
  16. Matt_the_chap

    Any thoughts on these jackets

    Oh Good God, that makes it ten times worse than being an actual suede blazer.
  17. Matt_the_chap

    Show us your suits

    My latest acquisition, a 1930s (I believe it to be from 1933) pinstriped D/B suit, two piece with a watch pocket on the trousers and around 22 or 23" bottoms. Sadly, I've got no photos of it on yet as I don't have a camera with me at university. It's a joy to wear and exceptionally smart. The...
  19. Matt_the_chap

    Any thoughts on these jackets

    With the material being that soft and behaving as you've described, it may be a wool/cashmere mix. My grandad's jackets that have cashmere in them tend to do that. Is there no material label inside of a pocket perhaps?
  20. Matt_the_chap

    Opinion on this suit

    If I had that kind of money available, I feel perhaps a little ashamed to say that I'd buy it and wear it (if it were my size as well) with that red slip-over of mine. It looks rather '70s and I must admit to a possible shameful love of that era's tailoring, perhaps (depending on the suit) minus...
  21. Matt_the_chap

    Any thoughts on these jackets

    I must say that I find suede blazers a little horrifying except on women and even then... I can't think of them in anything more positive than a neutral light. The language on the buttons is German, but whether it was actually made in Germany or not is impossible to learn without labels and so...
  22. Matt_the_chap

    1920s Vintage 'Oh My God' Suit

    It looks awful as well when sitting down - there's so much hideous pulling. Tight trousers should be reserved for Michael Flatley and Michael Flatley alone.
  23. Matt_the_chap

    1933 Belted Back TREASURE

    Good God - that's half my rent for this term alone. Whoever got it, I envy their finances AND their new suit. Perhaps I just shouldn't look at this forum for three years to save on my mind slowly crumbling into a mess of envy.

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