Marcel Szabo, a Hungarian shoemaker, has posted four videos showing the early phases of shoemaking. Part 1 [Video no longer available] Part 2 [Video no longer available] Part 3 [Video no longer available] Part 4 [Video no longer available] Thanks to Janne Melkersson, a Swedish cordwainer, for posting this in a StyleForum thread.
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I spoke with a tailor recently who recounted the days back in the 1960s when he regularly made white, unlined sharkskin suits. He also wore them himself. Apparently they were quite the thing to wear in Los Angeles at that time. Unfortunately, he said the fabric is no longer available today. If anyone has a
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Here’s a clever montage of Grant in top form throughout his cinematic career. All cut and synced to ZZ Top’s “Sharp Dressed Man”. Needless to say, Grant does everything well whether he’s wearing a 2 piece suit, 3 piece suit, single breasted, double breasted, dinner jacket / tuxedo, white tie and tails or morning coat.
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Thanks to LL member Jackson in this thread, here’s a short TF1 video clip of the French tailoring house of Camps de Luca featuring head cutter (chef coupeur) Mario Valente and tailors Marc de Luca and Charles de Luca. You will see an example of the cran Necker notch style in the middle of the
Bel y Cia Bel y Cia is a men’s haberdashery situated on the Paseo de Gracia in central Barcelona. There is also a separate women’s store, which is to the left of the picture above. The front half of the men’s Bel y Cia store features a generous selection of Edward Green shoes. By my
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Fallan & Harvey / Meyer & Mortimer Norton & Sons / Henry Poole Davies & Sons – Morning coat SaveSave
Savile Row – Summer 2007 Read More »
It is quite interesting the extreme sacrifices and rituals made in the name of this cult. Some sacrifices are made to uphold the handsewn creed, others to dissect it. This StyleForum thread shows the graphic results of cutting open a Kiton MTM jacket and exposing the apparent chasm between sales mythology and the painful facticity
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Last month I was in NYC and London, which afforded me the opportunity to compare the English and Italian approaches to the handmade umbrella. Let’s do Italy first. Mario Talarico umbrellas appear to have very limited retail distribution outside of Italy. As this StyleForum thread on Talarico umbrellas describes, they can certainly be bought in
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