Fair winds and favorable seas to ya. I used to (be able to) wear a 39 PB. It was one of the best suits ever.
Fair winds and favorable seas to ya. I used to (be able to) wear a 39 PB. It was one of the best suits ever.
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Looks like it has those damned urine stains. Be prepared to fail to get them completely out if you buy it.
I have two Palm Beach items; one a 1930's jacket with the belted back, the other a two breasted number I won in a hard fought battle on Ebay. Having it altered to fit (previous owner was my height, but a little rotund). Pics to follow when that bad boy is done.
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Well, it looks like nobody was willing to pay that much. I decided not to bid on it anyway because to make it fit I would have had to lose the cuffs. Oh well, at least I have my Palm Beach cloth dinner jacket. I just have to get it re-altered since the first tailor I took it to did a half-a***d job of it, as well as getting a brown spot of unknown origin right on the front. Sigh... Thanks again for the input.
Palm Beach cloth is spectacularly easy to clean. I don't see anything on that suit that won't come out.
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You could always do faux cuffs.
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Ah....thanks much. If that suit comes up for sale again I'll consider it.
Re: Labels - I just took another look at my dinner jacket and it has a white label with orange text saying "Tailored by Goodall" along the top of the collar label with "From the Genuine Cloth" along the bottom. I guess this means it is a pre-1944 item (?). Unfortunately, when I got it back from the tailor there was a brown stain about the size of a pencil eraser just below one of the bottom buttons. When I asked the tailor (who speaks very, very little English) about it he just shrugged with an "I have no idea where that came from" look. So....I might be trying that Oxi-Clean treatment myself. I also have a Goodall-Sanford Palm Beach suit that is not made out of Palm Beach cloth but is nice anyway. Both are unlined. Is the Palm Beach cloth comfortable? (I'm thinking specifically of trousers rubbing against bare thighs since it is kind of scratchy, imho.) Thanks!
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