Invention of the tartan dinner jacket “Few of my father’s clothes were any use to me after his death. … I did, however, take one of his Inverness capes, and a Rothesay Hunting Tartan suit, which he used to wear for tea after shooting. I had it altered to fit me, substituting zip flies, which ...

Rare classical portrait painting Portrait painting today often includes a context or a reference to the person’s life or ethnicity. Classical, pure portrait painting founded in the 19th Century is less common. A reader of mine, Jonas Barlyng, performs the rare art of classical portrait painting. This week he just finished a portrait of Butler. Only ...

It took almost two years from start to finish. Finally, in May I could pick up the tuxedo at Volkmar Arnulf’s workshop in Potsdam. The tuxedo is a very classic tuxedo, a new year’s eve tuxedo. Design style is a double breasted two-button shawl collar with one-pleat high-waist trousers with side-adjusters. Shoulders are extended a ...

  Annals attribute the costume splendor of the Luchino Visconti movie The Leopard to the Italian designers and tailors Piero Tosi and Umberto Tirelli. In that perspective the photos of Burt Lancaster being fitted for an evening dress at the tailor in connection with the The Leopard become a little intriguing, since the tailor in ...

The Brits will wear a cut-away coat with black waistcoat and black tie at a funeral, if they follow tradition strictly. Often a dark lounge suit and a white shirt will be enough though. Butler shows, how you can substitute both cut-away and lounge suit at a funeral for something in between: a black jacket. With greyish striped ...