Absolute beauties. Shall be staring at them at work to decipher their secrets.

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Added on August 8, 2010, 10:52 pmquite nice these. they have no drape. it is drape that gives the old man look to dbs.





This post has been edited by kotmj: Aug 8 2010, 10:52 PM

I don't know. They are not my pics.

Huh, nobody told me I have a sexy back yet with my suits.

I can have it illustrated for you how backs can be sexy, but I would rather not do any harm to my reputation as a (straight) upright person.

^^I'm not stopping you.

Today is a historic day for this country. The first documented fully-canvassed suit has been spoken for. As another first, trousers will be fishtail back, cut specifically for braces with a high rise.

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Added on August 10, 2010, 11:02 pmOn second thought, I wouldn't go with navy linen. I saw one on a mat salleh at a concert, and it looks shabby.

This post has been edited by kotmj: Aug 10 2010, 11:02 PM

You seem to have developed a fetish for my feet. You want to lick and suck on them, hmm?

I chanced upon a tailoring shop today. It's just a half shop, but it's in an upscale part of KL. I walk past many tailoring shops whenever I go shopping and such, but never bother to go in because most have awful display suits. It's not worth the time. Also, these shops have clueless proprietors. Their stupidity irk me too much. I once showed such a "tailor" GDT's suit jacket, and he had no idea how to determine if it was fully canvassed. Worse, he insisted the buttonholes were machine-made.

But this shop is special. One of the display suits was a plain cream with a dark windowpane over it. There was Shape, sleeves were graceful, lapels too. All very nice. Very obviously above average. The tailor was digging his nose. I stepped in.

Some banter. He asked me who made me my shirt. I told him.

"Oh, Loke Something Something is it? Is he still alive?"

I said, "No, mine is a different Loke. Here's his card."

"Ah this is the son. I dunno if the father is dead or not. His father is the one who makes horse trousers. My father and his father were friends. His father is famous, I saw him once when I was small. But I think the son is in semi-retirement."

I said, "He's very busy of late."

Talked about fully-canvassed stuff, he said nobody ever asked for one. He said you got them to avoid bubbling in the fusing. I said modern fusings never bubble. He said they did, even Sparkmanshop's did. I asked him if he sent his suits to Wardrobe to be made up. He denied any association with Wardrobe.

"Are you a tailor?" he asked.

More banter.

"Come by someday, I'll make you something. I'll make it nice."

Heh, he has no idea what torture it is to be my tailor.

This post has been edited by kotmj: Aug 14 2010, 11:07 PM

no, ground floor.

No single tailor here does anything that deserves the term impressive. The reason is that Malaysian suit customers are highly unsophisticated.

I picked apart a Taiwanese vintage bespoke blazer a few weeks back, and while fully canvassed, the shortcuts taken were awe-inducing. You'd think the Taiwanese would be more sophisticated suit wearers, they having the tradition and the weather for it, but the hymo used was stiff, there was no volume padding in the chest (so it looks flat in the chest, the way Koreans like theirs), and the darts in the canvas were awful machine zigzag stitches. The was no edge tape anywhere. No domette. The only handwork was the lapel pad stitching, done coarsely.

The fabric was a synthetic/wool mix, and the lining ... the worse shit in the universe. I soaked it in water and the dark purple lining started to bleed and the water turned red. Dark red. I initially thought it was due to blood stains.

Really great suits are only made in small pockets of the globe.

You're the Chinaman, you tell me.

In other news, I wonder if I should bid on this in anticipation of my FC DB.

The best made in Malaysia jacket (contemporary, not vintage) I've seen was a display suit of a pathetic little tailor in Campbell Complex. I believe it is better made than any ALT stuff. It is fused, of course, but it was very structured and beautiful. Just beautiful. To die for, really. I spent an afternoon looking at many dozen suits in many shops, and this one suit stood out amongst them. But the shop was a hole-in-the-wall and the proprietor was unkept, had a wispy little mustache, wore a worn T-shirt and shorts and sandals. The carpet was threadbare, the cutting board was melamine laminate with large pieces broken off.

I asked to see that display suit, and he gladly handed it to me.

"But this isn't from your shop, is it? The label says it isn't," I remarked.

"No, it isn't mine. A tailor friend of mine loaned it to me to see if I can sell it. He says he rarely wears it."

I noted down the label, and I looked up the shop many times in the internet. They are supposed to have 2 branches, but one was in a shopping mall that crumbled upon itself and the other somewhere else. I called the numbers given but both lines were no longer active. Sigh.

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Added on August 16, 2010, 10:30 pmI have Daiso hooks at home.

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Added on August 16, 2010, 10:48 pmOh yeah: First fitting of FC DB is tomorrow evening.

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Dun worry, the other DBs will not approach the sublimity of mine. Trust me. A DB is difficult to get juuuust right....

You're making it more complicated than it needs to be.

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Added on August 16, 2010, 11:27 pmPlastic.

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The Ikea stuff are for 18" shoulders. Mine are 17". I use Daiso hangers.

I have a better idea...

http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?p...310#post3504310

Too bad I'm already eating Cintan mee every dinner. If I bought anything I would have to downgrade to white bread.

We never say no to pics.



High armholes, soft shoulder.

I am avoiding that B&S like the plague. Stop reminding me of it.

^That is a cloth only someone like the Tan Sri can wear well (without getting fired). Perhaps to his next board meeting to frighten the other directors.

I think that jacket is very nice.