Quote from: Gerry on June 09, 2025, 08:49:27 AMGoing back to what I was talking about earlier in this thread, made to measure was just a generic term for tailored, as is exemplified by this advert:
https://youtu.be/96t6lODGTE0?si=VDvv6G4v5lMhpUnL
Burton had a very good reputation for quality, incidentally.
Quote from: Gerry on June 09, 2025, 08:05:32 AMBearing in mind that this was an era of denim and tartan, you can see just how out of touch these firms had become by the mid 70s.
Quote from: Hendrick on June 09, 2025, 05:52:12 AMFrankly, most of the Biellese & co superfine wools aren't as durable and functional as we are made te believe. No coincedent that most tweeds are from Schotland and Ireland by the way... Funny that although Hudderfield mills were weaving worsteds as early as the 1850s on an industrial scale but tweeds, thornproof and such cloths remained staple for anything functional like hunting, outdoors etc...
Quote from: Gerry on June 09, 2025, 03:34:18 AMQuote from: jruley on June 09, 2025, 03:06:17 AMWorking men's suits were functional, durable, and (hopefully) comfortable - not necessarily fashionable.
I'd say that was fashionable for the time. It's a lounge suit, after all. The thickness of cloth is typical too. Really scratchy stuff, which is why trousers were so heavily lined. They still are in the bespoke world out of tradition; but in this age of super-this-that-and-the-other weights of cloth, which are more finely woven, it often isn't necessary.
PS, living in Scotland at a time without central heating, you'd want a suit that thick!
Quote from: jruley on June 09, 2025, 03:06:17 AMWorking men's suits were functional, durable, and (hopefully) comfortable - not necessarily fashionable.
Quote from: Hendrick on June 08, 2025, 11:19:09 PMAh, okay! Thick cloth indeed, apparently in a fibre gauge big enough to scare moth away. Must have been dreadful, spending a year in the trenches, losing several pounds, and then having to go around in that...
Cheers, Hendrick