Break Your Comfort Zone

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Nowadays sartorialists are glued to white and sky blue shirts. They claim that they dress in classic fashion. Perhaps they do, but white and sky blue shirts are a very limited use of classic fashion. The pool of possibilities is much larger. In short, we need more fantasy and courage. It could be a cream white shirt, or, like in the present photos, a lemon-coloured shirt.

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Mr Barlyng, portrait painter and lawyer, and the gentleman in the photos, pairs the yellow shirt with a bespoke three-piece navy blue flannel suit with peak lapels and a wine red repp tie. All in all, it is a fancy combination, yet a very simple and elegant one.

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Break your comfort zone.

Photo: The Journal of Style in Copenhagen

Summer jackets from the bench

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I have assisted a friend at bespoke tailor Peter Undén in Copenhagen. The initial order consisted of a cream-yellow linen jacket and an indigo blue jacket in a mohair blend from J & J Minnis’ Fresco II selection.  There was enough of the Fresco length for a pair of trousers, so we decided to have them made up as well.

The linen from Smith & Co., I have known for some time, whereas the mohair Fresco is new to me. I am really impressed by it. Unlike the typical potato sack Fresco, the mohair Fresco is an iron curtain and the weave more open than the usual mohair. The downside being that the cloth is hard and scratchy.

Source: The Journal of Style

Sartorial meet-up in Copenhagen – Photos

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Gentleman-Cycling-Copenhagen-The-Journal-of-StyleI had been thinking about it for a year. Finally, I acted, and last week we (people enthusiastic about tailoring and classic stuff in Copenhagen) had a meet-up.

I did try to establish dress rules for the evening of a white shirt and black shoes but few would bother to follow them. The lawyer on the bike did, though. Now retired tailor Bent Wennerwald has made the blue suit.

Bespoke-Hitchcock-Jacket-The-Journal-of-StyleMany readers will recognize this man. I cannot mention his real name but he is wearing a cashmere jacket from Harrisons’s Saltire collection. Like the heavy cream white flannel trousers it is made by Steven Hitchcock in London.  Shoes are from John Lobb, St. James.

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Handmade-brown-derby-shoes-The-Journal-of-StyleAnother participant, who couldn’t care about my dress rules but did very well nonetheless. He wears a double breasted suit from vintage flannel made by Peter Undén and caramel coloured handmade shoes.

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Brummell-Snuff-The-Journal-of-StyleSnuff from venerable Fribourg & Treyer, like Brummell would want it to be.

Sartoria-Ripense-The-Journal-of-StyleVery nice back on a bespoke suit from Sartoria Ripense in Rome.

Velvet-jacket-The-Journal-of-styleMichael C. G. Iversen in blue velvet jacket and paisley pink tie donning the most dandified dress of the night.

Source: The Journal of Style

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