SARTORIALLY WELL HUNG No.1 - POOLE
HENRY POOLE SUMMER EVENING JACKET
HOT STEALTH-TUX BATMAN, THIS IS KILLER COOL
Morning Style Merchants. So much truly excellent and exciting sartorial work goes marching up and down Savile Row, unseen, under the arms or over the shoulders of Row-Humans during the creation processes. All manner of craft, flair and tailoring nuance is perpetually carted about this manor yet hardly anybody sees it, largely due to discreet practices of most tailors. Unburdened as I am by such modest qualities I’m on a mission to get passing Row-Movers to hang their precious cargos on my hooks at No.31 to be shot, documented and shared in the interests of interest. These garm-bearers might even say something good, right? This is ‘Sartorially Well Hung’, a new thing and this first one is a total-blinder.
HENRY POOLES IVORY TUX JACKET HUNG BY MR.SIMON CUNDY, M.D. OF POOLE
Whats hanging Mr.Cundy? “It’s a white dining jacket, or in the USA, a white tuxedo”. Note, Poole invented this genre-which is pretty damn significant (clickingtons). It’s such gorgeous piece in what I’d call an ivory. “One of our house cloths- a linen, silk and wool hopsack 9 oz.” This cloth makes for such an effortlessly light, chic-drapey jacket, coming in at £3,500 fully blown bespoke (only). It looks gratifying longer in cut to me that much current cutting, but its the house silhouette effectively with lightly suppressed waist. “These can be made up in our new Super Summer Weight” Simon Cundy, Poole owner and M.D. adds. But more of that development when I catch up with my bloody homework (clicky). Right now, I instantly read this piece as a drop-dead-gorgey blazer with a divine handle, but it’s actually a dinner jacket without the satin lapels. A stealth day tux, no less.
CUNDY OFF THE CUFF
“With a self cloth facing, not satin, is gives it a little more casual versatility”
“With a self cloth facing, not satin, is gives it a little more casual versatility, also a chance to save the crème brûlée spot for a dry clean.” Are you kidding Mr.Cundy, who’s just been talking ‘bout customers wearing these rigs to Napa valley summer wine parties? The clumsy/haters present would be using a jacket like this for target practice surely. As a bona fide light-suit-wearing, Pinot-drinking-pillock, I cant emphasise enough the utter importance of zero-temperance white wine dousing of any red wine stains on light tailoring- Do not spare the horses- Douse the living daylights out of yourself with white to save the piece, not matter how mental/Withnail this makes you appear (click).
Mr Cundy, also also mentioned Glynnbourne as one of his customers favoured summer event preference, which am sure is less treacherous.
Stubbs out.
PS. That cheeky-chic Panama hat that snuck in-on-a hook is the new San Diego from Lock (tifta-click). Nice, no?