Question on expanding tailoring wardrobe and Anglo-Italian specifically.
I'm going to London next week for a fitting of a MTM jacket and trousers I ordered a few months ago. If they haven't fucked it up I'm possibly going to order another jacket. I've gotten the AIT-077 in a sport jacket, as seen in the pic, and some mid-grey flannel trousers.
My instinct says to go for a winter weight navy sport coat next. In either their winter hopsack, their in-house wool twill tweed that's >500gsm OR the grail which would be the fox brothers wool twill tweed in either navy or forest green. I'm curious about the input of the much more knowledgeable tailoring heads on the discord. Use case is both work and casual, any tailoring is formal enough to pass at work and I can dress down a sport jacket pretty easily. I just don't want to get anything that's too weird and will sit in my wardrobe unused. Second bonus question is wtf is wrong with Anglo-Italians DB jackets. There's a weird shape to the lapel roll that adds a right angle at the bottom that I find very unappealing, I'd love to know if anyone knows where the inspiration is from.
My instinct says to go for a winter weight navy sport coat next. In either their winter hopsack, their in-house wool twill tweed that's >500gsm OR the grail which would be the fox brothers wool twill tweed in either navy or forest green. I'm curious about the input of the much more knowledgeable tailoring heads on the discord. Use case is both work and casual, any tailoring is formal enough to pass at work and I can dress down a sport jacket pretty easily. I just don't want to get anything that's too weird and will sit in my wardrobe unused. Second bonus question is wtf is wrong with Anglo-Italians DB jackets. There's a weird shape to the lapel roll that adds a right angle at the bottom that I find very unappealing, I'd love to know if anyone knows where the inspiration is from.
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The main part of the lapel on the DBs just has more belly than what seems to be common. The pattern does look a bit weird in the lower part on some of the product pics tho.
I was doing to ask if you've considered a DB for your 2nd suit if you already have a nice SB that you like.
Which fabric to pick and honestly style is just such a personal choice that it's tough to say without specific inspo or ideas of stuff that you like. I think a navy DB would be very fun and depending on the details could be worn in a fun way as a sport coat rather than a full suit.
Do you have inspo or ideas of things that you like? Any of the fabrics you've mentioned seem p solid choice and fairly safe all things considered
a navy db is the dream, but i'm very limited by the stores I have access to. There's essentially no tailors I'd go to locally and no trunk shows by any brands I'd like to Dublin.
I could stretch to bespoke in London if it was just the suit cost but the amount of travel needed would close to double the cost.
So it's MTM, and A-I seemed to fit the bill, but their DB's are so fucking weird.
This is an armory DB in what I believe is the fox's wool twill tweed
Have you looked at their shots on IG? The DB looks less weird to me in many of the shots there
https://www.instagram.com/p/CvKdHtbrjxU/
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Yes, it still leans more conservative than Italian tailors, loucheness, I see used online
This is a 6x1 instead of the more typical 6x2 it looks like. Also that jacket is short by like 2 inches imo
I have an A-I suit I got on ebay since I put in the order, I'm short and their block is long on me
by like a knuckle
ah nice, their pattern always looks too short to me, esp on the DBs
I've since had the pants let out and the sleeves shortened
but length is definitely not an issue
a little hard to tell with the button undone and at that angle but I don't mind the length in that pic
yeah it'd be more of an issue of proportions I think rather than whether the length specifically is an issue
they have some rtw db's in stock, I might try on in store and see if I still get the ick
Yep this one is beautiful