Comments on: The British Invasion…of Italy http://manolomen.com/2007/01/09/the-british-invasionof-italy/ Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:08:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Lyman Brock http://manolomen.com/2007/01/09/the-british-invasionof-italy/#comment-74246 Lyman Brock Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:18:01 +0000 http://manolomen.com/2007/01/09/the-british-invasionof-italy/#comment-74246 Didn't the Italians start this melodrama. Personally, I like both equally and wouldn't turn a well made suit away from either country. But they do say England makes the best of men's suit fabrics. The art of tailoring is such an old technology that it is hard to take these men serious at times. However, who cares about the bond film what I want to know is where were the suits in The Conformist made? That film has a fine collection of men's suits. It's an aspiration for style if ever there was one. And what about the French? The new Dior Homme has a great look for RTW. Where are they produced? I know there is this argument about bespoke but if you are in good shape and have balanced figure do you really need such fuss. Aren't bespoke tailors just a form of costume makers? Does bespoke use that many more secret measurements than drafting a pattern for a theater production does? Is Armani correct when he says that Savile Row tailors are a bunch of old grannies who wish they worked in a French couture house? We all know their public school boys do. Are the Italian tailors just another buttered form of Moma Roma desperate to give their children creditability? Didn’t the Italians start this melodrama. Personally, I like both equally and wouldn’t turn a well made suit away from either country. But they do say England makes the best of men’s suit fabrics. The art of tailoring is such an old technology that it is hard to take these men serious at times.

However, who cares about the bond film what I want to know is where were the suits in The Conformist made? That film has a fine collection of men’s suits. It’s an aspiration for style if ever there was one.

And what about the French? The new Dior Homme has a great look for RTW. Where are they produced?

I know there is this argument about bespoke but if you are in good shape and have balanced figure do you really need such fuss. Aren’t bespoke tailors just a form of costume makers? Does bespoke use that many more secret measurements than drafting a pattern for a theater production does? Is Armani correct when he says that Savile Row tailors are a bunch of old grannies who wish they worked in a French couture house? We all know their public school boys do. Are the Italian tailors just another buttered form of Moma Roma desperate to give their children creditability?

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