Recent content by Noble Savage

Ede and Ravenscroft now sells ready-to-wear double braid evening trousers, pictured above. http://shop.edeandravenscroft.com/collections/formal-dress/products/evening-trousers-double

I appears that the embroidered velvet collar posted above has to do with the wearer holding a Ph.D. from a Scandinavian university, for example, as explained on the Aalto University Dress Code page: http://promootio2012.aalto.fi/en/about/dresscode/insignierna_for_teknologie_doktorer/

Velvet collars at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. More here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Royal_Swedish_Academy_of_Sciences-Ceremonial_Meeting_2010-03-31

Black, white, and silver, striped or small "wedding" pattern ties all come to mind. Noble Savage.

The silk is the weakest part of these coats. You don't want it to turn to dust at an event. Your tailor can replace the silk.

As you were composing your reply, I was composing mine. Whatever Sator's feelings regarding dress coats with half-silk facings, his position as a dilettante means that he does not have to execute the orders of customers, who, had he any, might doubt that he has any good sense at all: one year...

Thank you for your kind welcome! Interesting matching blue tie and coat lining. Note that what appear to be patent leather shoes are being worn with spats in broad daylight. This sort of thing hasn't been often seen in quite some time. Noble Savage.

And now for your amusement, the Sator Dress Coat Challenge: The Response to the Sator Dress Coat Challenge, which does not appear on Sator's forum: Noble Savage.

Greetings! After I posted several images of current evening and morning dress, I was removed from that so-called tailors' forum. I was not amused. By way of explanation, it must be stated that Sator wrote recently that his new lady love does not approve of him wearing any of the fancy clothes...