ils thread for general menswear and men's clothing ish

it has tiny white dots on it tho so its vv casual

jackets really seem like the kind of thing you need to try on in person

well you can always return it

if you know yr size and can ascertain the general cut you can make a good guess

tbh i don't really understand what a blazer in this sense is, except a blue suit jacket without its trousers. is it just slightly more deconstructed cut, cotton mix rather than wool?

btw that rag and bone jacket i bought totally doesnt fit me and is unreturnable if anyone wants to make me an offer lol

actually it kinda fits just doesnt look quite right

ty joe for proving my point! ;-)

haha

i had a good run before that tho

anyway maybe just dont buy it on final sale

i am looking for a sports jacket for teaching. should have bought that in the uk though. situation here is either $$$ or men's wearhouse nerdy.

have you gone to suit supply? i haven't but have heard that it may be worth checking out

actually I just went to their website and don't like any of their jackets :-/

if we assume $500-800 brooks bros is out of my range, anywhere else i should be looking to get that look?

miss u oxford...

xp thanks

yo lagoon what size is yr unreturnable jacket

42, i paid $200

its $700 retail iirc

i have had good luck w suit supply so far, am about to buy a tux from them, will update.

who's actually purchased a suit/suits in nyc, and how much did you pay?
I need at least one more suit. I bought a j crew thing (brown suit, slightly lighter weight) that probably came to $500-600 or so, but had to have a lot of tailoring done on it (for about $100), and it's still just not quite right.
I want a dark grey or navy suit in a more conservative cut. but I'm tall and have no shoulders. nothing fits that well.
:(

I guess I wanted to ask if anyone's done suitsupply for one thing.
but I worry that their suits might tend to have that too-small look to the jackets that has also been the trouble for me with j crew.

depends on your sizing. i'm on the small side, and years ago i bought a suit from APC on Mercer that is still the most perfect fitting suit I've ever worn. still going strong after 7 years. don't know what their stuff is like now, though.

tbh i don't really understand what a blazer in this sense is, except a blue suit jacket without its trousers. is it just slightly more deconstructed cut, cotton mix rather than wool?

― caek, Monday, August 19, 2013 4:12 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

blazer is i think a more specific term than sportcoat. it seems like blazer should maybe be confined to the solid navy/metal button garment, but there's a whole world of sportcoats including navy ones.

there are tons of suits at macys, most of them are prob pretty blah but you can find some cool stuff too, bloomingdales etc likewise

yeah i think this might be a british/american thing

blazer means the thing w the shiny buttons in america too i think

a bit pricey for me, but I might take a look. been thinking of just going through suits at bloomingdales too.
I found an amazing burberry suit at a consignment shop yesterday for $350, but I just couldn't commit without knowing how easily it would be able to be tailored. the arms and chest were definitely a bit too wide.
did I blow it?
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i dont think there is like an official difference between blazer, sportcoat and suit jacket

and I know you're supposed to get the arms dead on, but my tailor took in the arms on the j crew suit?

"my tailor"

"took in" as in made them narrower or shorter?

hmmm

42R or 42S? that has the potential to look too baggy on me unless it's S

just a plain ol 42

cv - suit width is the hardest thing to tailor, so you did right in passing it up

I mean, the chest

argh, that's gonna be too big for me ;_;

brb, growing 4 inches and eating a pie

tbh i don't really understand what a blazer in this sense is, except a blue suit jacket without its trousers. is it just slightly more deconstructed cut, cotton mix rather than wool?

suit jackets tend to fit differently ime - like i have a few nice suits but if i wore the jacket with chinos or jeans it'd look weird. a blazer and a sports jacket are kinda interchangeable to me tho i'd have said sports jacket was more used to describe more patterned pieces.

didn't know blazer in english sense meant double breasted.

shoulders are the hardest i think! i was told the only thing that really matters is getting the shoulders right

made the shoulders narrower. also made the armholes smaller.
as I understand it.
lengthened the sleeves.

trouble is I need like a 38 long, which never exists. this tailor seemed to suggest that if I get something too big (so at least the jacket is the right length), he could narrow the correct parts.

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pretty sure "sport coat" is, by defn, single breasted for manoeuvrability when shooting pheasant/reading blogs. other than that, yeah, no idea.

suit jackets are different insofar as they are actually made as part of a suit ie with a matching pair of pants made from the same fabric? but i dont think theres like an official Tailors Union this is how a suit jacket fits and this is how a sportcoat fits

the problem is that if I get an off the shelf jacket with the shoulders right on, it probably means the whole jacket is too short.

once you're getting up to 600-700 + tailoring it might be time to start looking at m2m?

yeah cv i was gonna say, having met you in person you might need to go the m2m route

shoulders are the hardest i think! i was told the only thing that really matters is getting the shoulders right

― max, Monday, August 19, 2013 4:40 PM (36 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yah there is no jacket in the world that fits me off the rack so i have to get everything tailored but this is what i aim for

i am also a 38/36 and all the jackets that fit on me would look ridiculous on you cv!

dyao did you ever do m2m in HK?

I would google "m2m" but I somehow suspect I would not find what you guys are talking about

ok follow up: anyone know how much that starts to cost? I mean if I had to splurge but got something very ideal in return (that I could use forever), I'd consider it.

suit jackets are different insofar as they are actually made as part of a suit ie with a matching pair of pants made from the same fabric? but i dont think theres like an official Tailors Union this is how a suit jacket fits and this is how a sportcoat fits

no, agreed. tho i think with more trad suits the jackets don't work quite so well on their own, whereas with more modern or hipster brands the suit jacket tends to be cut so they can sell it on its own.